Topic: International Development

Launched in the 1960s, this program provided financial support for more than two decades to strengthen universities in the Global South.

Partnering with public agencies to encourage efficient administration in state, county, and local governments.

Convenings at Bellagio have tackled global challenges of every sort, from trade and finance to public health, agriculture, and food security.

Rockefeller Foundation agriculture programs begun in Mexico achieved global reach through four major research institutes. Building them was the result of partnership.

As the scarcity of global resources became increasingly worrisome in the 20th century, these organizations more boldly approached work in population and family planning.

India was not the first country to take up the new seeds and methods developed by the Rockefeller Foundation, but the story of India’s adoption of them in the 1960s is dramatic.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s first intensive agriculture endeavor is now credited with launching the global transformation known as the “Green Revolution.”

In the 1980s, critics argued that some groups had been left behind by the Green Revolution.

Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

What happened to a massive agricultural development program when war broke out?