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Producing a premium product with organic farming methods has raised the income of Thai farmers, who were previously earning on average $0.40 a day. Welcome to the Siam Organic way.

Britain must pursue an ‘inclusive innovation’ agenda if it wants to improve its chances of reducing poverty, social exclusion and inequality on its shores, says Harsha Patel.

We’re all concerned that social impact bonds should ultimately benefit service users, not least those creating and managing them, writes Ben Jupp.

There is a lot of heavy stuff going on in the world. Rather than finding ourselves held back by a paralysis of complexity and negativity, 2017 is a year to lean into new areas of opportunity. Embrace the power of ‘heliotropy’, says Charmian Love.

After more than a decade of training women as solar engineers in its home country of India, social enterprise Barefoot College is expanding its programme into other territories.

The entrepreneur behind business accelerator Growth4Good made his fortune in software services. He now puts both his energy and money into growing social enterprises.

A new government in Argentina hopes to transform the country’s economic and social situation. Social investment experts Miguel Ferreyra de Bone and Alejandra Baigun predict that the time is right for social enterprise and social investment to take off.

The Big Lottery Fund is the biggest funder of community activity in the UK and it’s keen to make sure that money is well spent. Against a background of tough social challenges, Brexit and doubts over the future of charity, its new initiative is provoking debate about how we can all better support a thriving civil society.

You might think he looks like an upstanding member of society, but the restaurateur and bon viveur has a colourful background that explains his “social meddling tendencies” (as he calls them).