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Yellow Catuaí, a variety of <em>Coffea arabica</em>

DEC 12, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Sleeplessness from Seattle

Starbucks Coffee is sending a blended message on fair trade: The company established Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices, but it is also resisting Ethiopia's efforts ...

DEC 8, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Global Goods Partners Story

"Going beyond fair trade, Global Goods Partners enables people to buy fairly traded products while at the same time promoting the comprehensive advancement of marginalized ...

CREDIT: Vanessa Vick.

DEC 8, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Story

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has expanded the scope of research by introducing six novel vaccine candidates into clinical testing in the past six ...

Members of the Ceramica Atitlan cooperative.

DEC 1, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Mercado Global Story

"Without fail, the women in every community I have ever worked with in rural Guatemala have asked me to help them find a market for ...

Sadarghat, a main port in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

DEC 1, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Microfinance Moment

Over the last three decades, the popularity of microfinance has steadily increased. And now, with Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank winning the Nobel Peace Prize, ...

NOV 30, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: In Coherence Lies Opportunity

If global leaders are serious about reducing poverty, they are really talking about efforts to provide the world’s poor with the public goods and ...

Kabul, Afghanistan <br>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28894487@N00/305012234/" target="_blank">Arash Absalan</a>

NOV 30, 2006 Article

Van Dyk Diary: Kabul, November 2006

Jere Van Dyk reports on the current situation in Kabul, describing the changes since his first visit in 1970.

Saul Garlick, founder of the Student Movement for Real Change

NOV 28, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Student Movement for Real Change Story

Saul Garlick founded the Student Movement for Real Change to empower U.S. students to learn more about the Global South and to improve conditions ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/serviphoto70/2267224793/">Nick</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 21, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Putting Teeth in Corporate Social Responsibility

Keith Slack discusses how corporate social responsibility could become more effective by changing the incentives that govern corporate access to capital and markets.

Bono, Product RED founder and spokesperson. Photo by Wilson <br>Dias for Agência Brasil.

NOV 21, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Is Ethical Clothing No Sweat?

Irish rocker Bono announced in January the launch of Product RED, a venture designed to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis ...