A Hidden Talent
November 10, 2025
When Mariamu first joined the food security program in Hanang district of Tanzania, she had no idea she’d soon become a talented rainwater harvesting technician. She’d always been dependent on […]
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Water, Seeds, Trees and Workshops
October 2, 2025
Angelina, a smallholder farmer, says that, before her community took part in the food security program administered by local partner IESII, they knew very little about crop management. They now […]
Empowerment
August 27, 2025
Once upon a time, Rina was confined to endless household chores and working as a daily wage laborer on other people’s farms. Today she says that, because of the intervention […]
A Multi-Pronged Approach to Food Security
June 6, 2025
Program farmers Martine, Hamado and Mariam attest to the ways in which their lives and family food security have changed for the better after receiving training from local partner ODE. […]
More-Than-Happy Ending After Devastating Loss
March 17, 2025
Don Reynaldo experienced the highs and lows of farming in a single season when a garden full of vegetables he thought he’d lost ended up coming back better than he […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Seeing (and Doing) is Believing
August 5, 2024
A more-efficient, more-productive method of planting rice called System of Rice Intensification (SRI) sounds like hocus-pocus to prospective users at first. “You use less water, your costs are reduced, but […]