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Preserving Guyana’s Remarkable Forests

December 31, 2015

Synopsis: Help Guyana Forestry Commission develop a national Forest Carbon Monitoring System Among the last things you can expect to see along the road headed south from the Guyanese city of Linden is a living, breathing human being. In large part, that is because the deeply rutted dirt road to Brazil cuts through thick forest […]

Tackling Child Labor

December 31, 2015

Synopsis: Reduce exploitative child labor in Liberian rubber sector Mercy Dahn was 9 years old when she began working on her father’s rubber farm in Liberia. At first she dug holes and planted young trees, but as she grew older, the tasks grew more difficult and dangerous. She worked with acid that irritated her skin, […]

Opening the Tap in Tanzania

December 31, 2015

Synopsis: Tackle root causes of poverty in rural areas by linking demand-driven Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS) with impact-boosting health and livelihoods programs Sarai Jacobi’s days used to be utterly predictable. Each morning at 7, she would leave her home in Nyakonge, Tanzania and walk four kilometers with her donkey to collect water for her family […]

Staying Cool In Pakistan

December 31, 2015

Synopsis: Cold chain development program linking horticultural and fishery production Safina Bibi is comfortable being a trailblazer. In 1984, Bibi became the first — and remains the only — woman owner of a cold storage facility in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. This is no small achievement in male-dominated Pakistan. But just as important is the fact […]

Taking Burma’s Coffee Global

December 31, 2015

Synopsis: Integrate smallholder farmers into commercial value chains to increase productivity Armed with a clipboard and a finely-tuned nose and taste buds, Craig Holt began the hard work of determining the potential of Burma’s coffee growers. Holt, owner of Seattle-based Atlas Coffee Importers, was in Rangoon, Burma (also known as Myanmar) as a volunteer judge […]
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Fayetteville — Site of Winrock’s ARK Challenge — Among Best Cities to Found Startups

December 14, 2015

(December 14, 2015) — Fayetteville, Ark., was one of the best cities in America to found a startup in 2015, according to a ranking released this month. Tech startup DataFox had the popular Northwest Arkansas city No. 3 on their list of 15 cities outside of New York City or Silicon Valley. Winrock International, through […]
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Winrock in elite company for public-private partnerships in Asia

December 2, 2015

Winrock International is one of four finalists for a prominent award recognizing outstanding public-private partnerships in the Asia Pacific region. The winner will be announced Dec. 3. The PublicAffairsAsia Gold Standard Award for Public-Private Partnership, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, “reflects the growing importance of public private partnerships in areas such as health promotion, environmental protection and […]
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Opening Big Markets to Small Farmers

November 30, 2015

The Wallace Center at Winrock International was recently recognized for its efforts to make wholesale markets more accessible to producers of all sizes—opening new doors and creating fresh growth opportunities for America’s small and mid-sized farmers. At the Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit in Atlanta last month, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary Ed […]

Winrock Plans Active Participation at Paris Climate Negotiations

November 17, 2015

The latest round of U.N. climate change negotiations is quickly approaching. This round represents a significant milestone because it is the deadline for reaching a new international climate agreement. Winrock International is gearing up to actively engage — hosting sessions on the importance of forest degradation, as well as low emission development and land use. […]
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Winrock International awarded project to reduce child labor in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana

November 10, 2015

November 10, 2015 — The United States Department of Labor announced today a new project to reduce child labor in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana. Winrock International was awarded the four-year project, “Mobilizing Community Action and Promoting Opportunities for Youth in Ghana’s Cocoa-Growing Communities,” which will empower 40 cocoa-growing communities to design and implement Community Action […]
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