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March 12th, 2013
Tackling development challenges in Africa, three social entrepreneurs join Stanford community
CDDRL, Program on Social Entrepreneurship NewsIn April, three social entrepreneurs working to advance social, economic, and political change in Africa will spend the spring quarter in residency at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Read more »
April 18th, 2011
FSE and SELF working to bring solar to the world
FSI Stanford, FSE in the news: The Energy Collective on April 18, 2011FSE's solar electrification drip irrigation project in Benin highlighted in piece on the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) and its successful partnerships. The results of the project, studied and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were clear: the PV-powered system increased food yields, which brought a chain of prosperity. Read more »
March 25th, 2011
Gates Foundation's Jeff Raikes and Cargill's Greg Page on improving global food security
FSI Stanford, FSE NewsFebruary 10th marked the launch of FSE’s Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium series. Setting the stage for the two-year series were Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Greg Page, CEO and Chairman of Cargill Inc. As CEOs from the largest foundation and the largest agricultural firm in the world they provided important perspectives on global food security in these particularly volatile times. 
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January 3rd, 2011
Food price volatility and the world's poor
FSI Stanford, FSE NewsIn a paper released December 20 in Population and Development Review, FSE director Rosamond Naylor and deputy director Walter Falcon provide insight into the causes and consequences of volatile food price markets over the last decade. 
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July 12th, 2010
Second class of Global Health Corps completes training at Stanford
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsThe second class of 38 Global Health Corps fellows is completing training at FSI to prepare for field assignments in global health care in the U.S. and in some of the world's poorest countries. Stanford Health Policy core faculty Paul Wise is one of the mentors. The Global Health Corps, founded by Barbara Bush and Stanford's Jonny Dorsey, seeks to double the number of fellows each year to reach 500. Jumpstarted by a $250,000 seed grant from Google.org, the Health Corps has raised almost $1.5 million for its programs through gifts from corporations, foundations, and individual donors. Read more »
February 24th, 2010
Global warming could hurt some poor populations and lift others from poverty, FSE study finds
FSI Stanford, FSE NewsThe impact of global warming on food prices and hunger could be large over the next 20 years. But even as some people are hurt, others would be helped out of poverty, according to a new FSE study.
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October 1st, 2009
Lucky Gunasekara and Tom Wiltzius on democratizing health care using mobile phone networks
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology NewsSummary of the October 1st class. Lucky Gunasekara, a student at Stanford's School of Medicine, and Tom Wiltzius, a student in Stanford's Computer Science program, took us through the rationale behind working with mobile phones and the content of their project working with health workers in Malawi. Read more »
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