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Rehabilitated Grazing Land Improves Livestock Health & Farmer Incomes in Ethiopia
In the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, households that live near communal grazing areas allow their animals to graze freely …
Ghana Poultry Project Grant Supports Domestic Chicken Production
In Ghana, high production costs hinder the production of chicken, the country’s most popular meat. Augustine Amankwa, a poultry entrepreneur and CEO …
Colombia Program Offers Migrants Training, Self-Sufficiency, & Hope
Yudith Carmen Calderón Gil, her husband David Calderón, and their four children are a Venezuelan family from the state of Barinas, who came to Colombia in …
Women Increase Incomes & Forge Equitable Future in Ethiopia Through Cooperatives
In the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, the Feed Enhancement for Ethiopian Development (FEED) II project, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, supported a …
Boosting Women’s Entrepreneurship in Ghana
Women make up 70 percent of Ghana’s poultry labor force, yet only 7 percent own their own poultry farms. Edith Wheatland, 41, overcame the …
Cassava Farmers Join in Red Stripe Beer’s Jamaican Pride & Profits
Charmaine Blair-Stewart has been managing her 11.5-acre farm in the St. Thomas Parish of Jamaica since her husband died suddenly …
Engaging Jamaican Youth in Agriculture through Farming as a Business
Oliver Creightney, 29, arrived at a church in Morant Bay in Jamaica’s St. Thomas Parish to mark his graduation from …
Mitigating Water Scarcity in Jamaica
In Colouden, a rural community located in Jamaica’s Clarendon Parish, hundreds of residents are not connected to running water through …
Keeping Girls in School in Northern Kenya
Dressed in her new uniform, Fardosa Boya, 12, walked toward the entrance of the school. It was the beginning of …
Amazonian Seed Stars in Reconciliation Efforts in Colombia
Sacha inchi, known as the Inca peanut, was first cultivated by the Incas more than 3,000 years ago in the …
Preparedness Training and Flood Warning Systems Bolster Disaster Readiness in Jamaica
Icema and Vincent Swire’s home in the Fellowship community of Portland, Jamaica, sits where the Sandy River meets the larger …
Women Farmers Increase Onion Production & Family Income in Burkina Faso
Small-scale market gardening, especially onion production, has become an important income-generating activity for women in Zorkoum, a village central Burkina …
