Beyond Traditional Farming
March 1, 2022
José, 24, will tell you that the old saying, “First impressions are lasting impressions,” is untrue, at least in his case. The first meeting he attended with local partner ACJ […]
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Emergency Inputs and Training Got Them Through
February 3, 2022
Domingo expressed his gratitude for the emergency inputs and training support he received as a drought devastated the July-November 2021 planting cycle, adding, “We really needed it.” At 63, Domingo […]
Life is Better in So Many Ways
January 12, 2022
Now that they have a tank to store rainwater in, Maribel and her family are no longer completely limited to producing food in the unpredictable rainy season. She says, “Through […]
Adopting All the Skills
January 7, 2022
You’d have to search far and wide before finding a more determined farmer than Lucy. Since joining her village’s Farmer Field School, she has started implementing all the new practices […]
Restoring the Soil, Improving Farming
December 8, 2021
When technicians from local partner Caritas Estelí first presented soil restoration as a means of improving resilience to worsening weather patterns, Doña Emma says she and the 40 other farmers […]
Shocked By Her Own Success
June 28, 2021
In 2019, after years of poor farming results, Saweria experienced a complete crop failure because of a severe drought. In order to feed her three children, she says she resorted […]
Designing a Better Farm
March 29, 2021
Despite the disruption of the pandemic, recent hurricanes, and the loss of the first bean crop to excessive rains, not all the news has been bad. Coffee prices have been […]
Working, Saving and Setting Goals as a Family
“People like us don’t save money because we have no money to save.” This was the first reaction that many people in the community had at the suggestion that a […]
The Road Out of Poverty and Malnutrition is Lined with Banana Plants
February 14, 2020
When the program decided to promote bananas instead of sweet potatoes for food and income, the Rwandan government provided training and banana suckers (shoots) and committed to monitoring for diseases […]