The Social Enterprise Review

The fre­quent recur­rence of famine has well inured us to images of ema­ci­ated bod­ies, of des­per­a­tion and suf­fer­ing, a tragedy with which we sym­pa­thize but feel pow­er­less to solve. We have come to view famine and hunger as inevitabil­i­ties that have long pre­ceded our exis­tence and that are far beyond the lim­its of our own …
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It’s amaz­ing how far the food indus­try has evolved from our ancestor’s eat­ing habits. From sci­en­tif­i­cally altered soy­beans, to antibi­otic filled ani­mals, our sources of food have strayed from the sim­ple, nat­u­rally grown plants and grass fed meats. It’s only within the past few decades where these new processes of grow­ing food has been intro­duced …
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    Havana, Cuba: my mind sum­mons images of streets filled with clas­sic cars, men smok­ing cig­ars, and small restau­rants swarm­ing with Cana­dian tourists. To many Amer­i­cans, Cuba is a coun­try shrouded in mys­tery, as my inac­cu­rate men­tal image may sug­gest. Not only is it vir­tu­ally unvis­itable, it is also home to an eco­nomic sys­tem …
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“A ris­ing tide lifts all boats.” This say­ing refers to how every­one ben­e­fits from a bet­ter global econ­omy, whether your coun­try is a yacht or a dinghy. It is a favorite of market-minded econ­o­mists, who usu­ally favor free trade as a way to relieve poverty through nat­ural mar­ket prin­ci­ples. But the sit­u­a­tion of inter­na­tional trade is …
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Despite all the com­mo­tion and con­tro­versy in the United States, con­tra­cep­tion remains a vital and effec­tive health option in the devel­op­ing world. It not only helps fam­i­lies plan on when to have chil­dren, reduc­ing infant and child mor­tal­ity rates and increas­ing mater­nal health, but can also be a fac­tor in stop­ping the spread of HIV/AIDS …
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On Jan­u­ary 12, 2010 a 7.0 mag­ni­tude earth­quake hit Haiti, killing 250,000 civil­ians, dis­plac­ing 1.5 mil­lion, and incur­ring costs of $8 bil­lion, equiv­a­lent to 120 per­cent of Haiti’s gross domes­tic prod­uct. Like other dev­as­tat­ing dis­as­ters before, the earth­quake gar­nered an out­pour­ing of aid from the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity. Accord­ing to the Chron­i­cle of Phil­an­thropy, 60 of …
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