Volunteering through Generations: How a Wisconsin Family Supports Armenian Farmers
After first hearing about the Farmer-to-Farmer Program in 1994, John Bobbe eagerly signed up to volunteer in Poland. The program, …
ACDI/VOCA Returns to Cooperative Roots to Usher in Professional Farmer Organization Guidelines
Global hunger is on the rise for the third year in a row due to extreme climate events, an ever-expanding …
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 …
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 …
Boosting Food Self-Sufficiency and Household Income in Paraguay
In 2017, a severe storm damaged the home and livelihood of Sonia Hortigosa, 35, who lives in Caracarai, in southeastern …
Forward Together: Accessing Markets and Strengthening Livelihoods in Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, market-led producer groups are lifting smallholder farmers out of poverty. With the support of ACDI/VOCA and USAID/Food …
