The UK government claims to be commited to ending hunger yet supports a scheme that, billed as good for Africa, is anything but.

The new vision for health care isn’t just about access, quality and affordability. It’s also about social and financial inclusion. That was one of the key messages presented at last week’s Ashoka Future Forum, an event that brought together more than 400 innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and members of the media to discuss potential solutions to pressing social challenges.

A year after adopting changes to its long-standing forestry policy, Brazil is struggling to implement the new rules, adding to uncertainty that appears to be fueling an increase in clearing of the Amazon rainforest.

The Green Revolution that catalyzed grain production in the mid-1960s ended India’s fear of famine. But achieving food abundance is overwhelming India’s mammoth and unwieldy bureaucracy, draining its freshwater reserves, and straining the energy sector and electrical grid.

In an effort to make the rights enshrined in Kenya’s new constitution “real” for women in Ol Pusimoru, USAID and Landesa, a global nonprofit that is working to strengthen land rights for the world’s rural poor, designed and implemented an innovative pilot project, the Kenya Justice Project, aimed at not only making rural communities more aware of women’s new rights, but also convincing them that these new rights could help their families and their community.

Peru has made its comprehensive deforestation data available to the public. That data shows that while more than 100,000 hectares have been cleared in the Peruvian Amazon on annual basis since 2005, the rate of clearing has slowed in recent years.