Social Investment for an Inclusive Future: Creating the World We Want to See
As the U.S. experiences a reckoning around social justice issues and the novel coronavirus pandemic further illuminates the existing disparities in our systems, the need to ensure an inclusive future that uplifts everyone is greater than ever.
In this series sponsored by Cisco, we’ll take a closer look at the importance of driving toward an inclusive future and the role businesses play in creating it. The first step is to make sure that a company’s operations, products and services serve equitable ends. After that, a company should consider how it can use social investments to build partnerships with the social entrepreneurs and nonprofits that have the expertise to address the complicated problems of inequality and critical human need. (Image credit: insta_photos/Adobe Stock)
The world produces enough food to feed every individual, yet almost 690 million people continue to go hungry. The irony is that many of those who are undernourished spend their days growing food for others. Smallholder farmers, who cultivate less than 5 acres of land, constitute a large portion of the world’s poor living on less than $2 a day, according to World Bank estimates.
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In rural India, smallholder farmers often struggle to earn a living. They are also largely dependent on highly polluting diesel fuel, the dominant source of energy across northern and eastern India, responsible for 5 percent of the country’s carbon emissions.
Worldwide, 650 million people still live in extreme poverty. More than 1.5 billion people lack access to banking and financial services, and 617 million youth lack basic mathematics and literacy skills.
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