When Life Hands You Lemons … Plant Cowpeas!
February 6, 2025
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 […]
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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 […]
Nursery Technicians Distribute Seedlings
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, […]
Satisfying Demand for Quality Local Dairy Products
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 […]
Good Neighbors Are A Gift
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 […]
Making the Switch to Organic
November 26, 2024
One of the reasons Doña Victoria joined the program is that she wanted to stop growing food with chemical fertilizers but didn’t know how to make the switch to organic […]