
Local Foods Are Shaping the Future
February 6, 2025
A divorced mother of four, Pitay is a go-getter who has supplemented her farm income for many years by selling hand-ground cornmeal. At 43, she admits pounding 25-30 pounds of […]
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February 6, 2025
A divorced mother of four, Pitay is a go-getter who has supplemented her farm income for many years by selling hand-ground cornmeal. At 43, she admits pounding 25-30 pounds of […]
Growing cowpeas, a nitrogen-fixing legume, is helping Lyya achieve a few important goals: improve soil quality, bring in some income during the time of year when no other money is […]
February 3, 2025
Neelam joined a women’s farmer group with the encouragement of local partner SAHAS and has never looked back. Apart from occasional day labor on other people’s farms she had little […]
January 31, 2025
Oscar can face the uncertainties of changing weather patterns with a lot more confidence and calm now that he’s practicing numerous climate-smart strategies on his farm. A few years ago, […]
January 30, 2025
Simply by joining a peer-operated Savings and Internal Lending (SILC) group, Paubla’s fortunes have changed for the better. She and her husband, Javier, have always been hard workers, always trying […]
January 27, 2025
The hardships Suraiya’s family experienced when her husband broke his hip are a thing of the past now that Suraiya is growing vegetables, raising poultry, and selling her surplus production […]
January 17, 2025
It was easy for Rafael to make the decision to join the program and start to unlearn what his father had taught him about farming: he had only to look […]
January 10, 2025
After a recent training module offered to the staff of area organizations, there are now 10 newly-trained tree nursery technicians in Jean Rabel. They will continue to establish new nurseries, […]
November 27, 2024
Milk-producing families are refining their sanitation practices, standardizing their recipes, and expanding their product base as a way to improve their income and satisfy the demands of a market that […]
Alfina’s involvement with this program has brought her an unexpected gift: better connections with her neighbors. She was initially interested in learning agricultural techniques that would help her and her […]