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Twitter Chat Wrap-Up: Child Labor in Supply Chains
June 10, 2016
Leading into World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, Winrock convened and moderated a Twitter chat to discuss the ramifications of child labor in supply chains and what we can all do to help tackle this important issue. [View the story “Twitter Chat: Child Labor in Supply Chains, June 9” on Storify]
World Day Against Child Labor 2016
June 6, 2016
This year’s World Day Against Child Labor highlights the problem of child labor in supply chains. To commemorate the day and raise awareness about this issue Winrock International (@WinrockIntl) will host a one-hour Twitter chat on Thursday, June 9th between 10:00-11:00 AM EDT. During the chat panelists will discuss how advocates, businesses, and consumers can ensure […]
Training Trainers to Empower Cookstove Entrepreneurs
May 26, 2016
“Empowerment is more than skills and knowledge — it’s realizing one’s own self-worth and ability to perform more than what we think we can.” This is what one participant in the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Program learned from the experience. Women play a critical role in the cookstove value chain. As primary users of household energy […]
Meeting of Minds
May 25, 2016
Event Agenda Speakers Media Most people have never heard the sound of a fish having dinner, but Gibran Huzaifah has. And when he described it for a receptive audience at last month’s inaugural Asia Regional Agriculture Innovation Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, he brought down the house. “We put a little microphone inside the water that […]
Asia Regional Agricultural Innovation Summit
May 24, 2016
Event Agenda Speakers Media Winrock-Organized Ag Tech Summit Kicks off in Bangkok Mark Young, CEO and co-founder of Garuda Robotics, makes drones — and he’s attending the inaugural Asia Regional Agricultural Innovation Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 25 and 26. The summit is bringing together an unlikely mix of participants from 15 countries across […]
New Desks Make the Grade
May 16, 2016
Story and Photography: Tom Willcox Eleven-year-old Anna Adyero, a student at Magwi Central Primary School in South Sudan, likes coming to school. But until recently, she struggled to learn. Not because she lacked a teacher, though teachers are scarce in the world’s newest country. But because she lacked what many assume is standard operating equipment — […]
Burma’s Coffee Makes World Debut
May 3, 2016
The aroma was intoxicating; it wafted up from tables where nine varieties of rich brown Arabica coffee sat awaiting their fate. The color and scent were promising, but the final test remained. How would it taste? More than 100 people were packing the room to find out. Because this wasn’t just any brew. After decades of […]
Forecast Hopeful as Cambodia Safeguards Priority Forests
May 3, 2016
One by one they signed the groundbreaking agreement — 175 world leaders, joined by a delegation of children from around the world, pledging their resolve to protect the future of the planet. The April 22 signing ceremony for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in France is still just a beginning. For it to […]
Game Changer for Farmers in Bangladesh: ‘Now the Buyers Come to Us’
March 30, 2016
On a foggy winter morning in early February, smallholder farmers in the Jessore district of Bangladesh contributed to a hectic and previously unusual sight. Some farmers sorted produce under a large shed adjacent to a vast field of crops. Others eagerly bargained with the very buyers who, not long ago, wouldn’t have bothered to come out […]
‘The Coffee Trip of a Lifetime’
March 30, 2016
Something special is brewing for smallholder coffee producers in Burma. For the vast majority of coffee drinkers in the United States and around the world, java from Burma remains an unexperienced delight. But, with Winrock connecting hundreds of smallholder farmers with international coffee buyers recently, that may be primed to change. In February, two years […]