Back to the Land and a Better Life
February 24, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic found Eulogio and his family living and working in a city and caused them to have to return to the country, where he grew up. The move […]
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Success Stories
Remote Community Organizes, Gets Results
A remote community with very little in the way of infrastructure is now on its way to connecting to markets with training from local partner Occupation of Rural Economic Development […]
Empowered Women Farmers Share Their Bounty
February 14, 2025
Daw Win Aye* is still growing rice and black gram beans … and, now, so much more. The program’s focus on supporting women farmers has made it possible for people […]
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 […]
When Life Hands You Lemons … Plant Cowpeas!
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 […]
From Housewife to Entrepreneur
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 […]
Facing Climate Change with Proven Strategies
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, […]
A Small Loan: The Secret Ingredient of Success
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 […]
Vegetable Gardening is Catchy!
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 […]
Learning and Unlearning Go Hand in Hand
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 […]