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Posted on October 16, 2023
By Tim Prewitt, President & CEO of The Hunger Project
This year, the world is coming together to chart a path toward a more sustainable and equitable food system — a system that can meet the demands of our ever-growing population and is resilient to environmental shocks.
Having spent my career working on food systems, I can easily say that never before have we seen such an outpouring of global engagement on this important topic. Typically, conversations about improving food systems focus on complex, commercial agricultural systems, delivering products from farm to table, often across borders. Nearly six billion people around the world find nourishment from these complex, commercial food systems, dominated by global agribusinesses that are responsible for producing a massive amount of food for our planet’s people.
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Posted on October 12, 2023
By Aisha Jumaan, President, YRRF
Beehive training and distribution. Photo: YRRF
Now in its ninth year of conflict, Yemen remains the largest humanitarian crisis globally, with 24 million people out of the population of 30.5 million in need of humanitarian assistance. The conflict has left 4 million people, including 2 million children, internally displaced, and at least 500,000 public sector workers have been without salaries for over six years.
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Posted on September 19, 2023
As a component of the Quality Jobs Index, 60 Decibels is partnering with Upaya Social Ventures in the Dignified Jobs Collaborative.
By Shruti Goel from Upaya and Tripti Singh at 60 Decibels
The 60dB Quality Jobs Index aims to enable organizations and investors at the forefront of sustainability and social impact to understand the quality and impact of jobs they are providing.
For employees worldwide, their jobs continue to be an unrewarding experience that scarcely provides enough to get by. 80% do not feel engaged at work and the cost of disengaged employees is over $7.8 trillion to companies.
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