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CLEAN’s Good Agricultural Practices Pilot Launch in Vientiane
April 13, 2020
Alex Dahan, Chief of Party of the USDA-funded CLEAN project, implemented by Winrock International in partnership with the Laos Department of Agriculture, at the Good Agricultural Practices Market Pilot launch in February 2020 at the International Trade Exhibition and Convention Centre in Vientiane, Laos. “Everything today is about GAP,” (Good Agricultural Practices), Dahan told a […]
Call to Action on Food System Disruption
April 13, 2020
This document was created during the Wallace Center’s National Good Food Network (NGFN) Conference, held March 10-13 in New Orleans. Approximately 50 attendees gathered during an emergency COVID-19 work session to assess how the pandemic would affect the U.S. food system, followed by a group brainstorming session on solutions to mitigate the emerging crisis. Additional […]
Winrock Responds to COVID-19
March 30, 2020
With projects around the world, Winrock International has been dealing with COVID-19 since January, when the novel coronavirus shut down daily life in China, one of the 46 countries in which Winrock works. As the virus continues to spread across the globe, the organization has ramped up its response: increasing communication, adjusting to altered workflow […]
Boosting Women in Bangladesh
March 4, 2020
At Winrock, a cross-cutting theme throughout our projects is promoting the role of women through education and leadership development. This is a story of how leadership training transformed one woman and — and through her, the village and region she represents. It was originally published in May, 2018. Photos by Misty Keasler “I have helped […]
Winrock and Kasetsart
February 19, 2020
A Winrock Legacy Story Winrock International’s connection with Thailand’s Kasetsart University began before Winrock itself. Only 12 years after Kasetsart was established in 1943, one of Winrock’s founding organizations, the New York City-based Agricultural Development Council (then known as the Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs), began helping Kasetsart University form an agricultural economics program. It was […]
How Arkansas Became the Nation’s Edamame Capital
January 23, 2020
A Winrock Legacy Story Herby Ault, who farms near Dardanelle, Arkansas, had never heard of edamame when Kelly Cartwright first approached him about growing it. But Cartwright, an agricultural scientist and entrepreneur, had done the math and knew it would work. “We had the numbers and we also had the market,” says Cartwright, who leads the Natural […]
Girl Power in Zambia
November 12, 2019
Like many girls in Mphunda Village, Zambia, 17-year-old Rabecca Mtonga dropped out of school at the age of 11. With no prospects for reentering school or getting vocational training, she married Bruno Nyirongo at age 15 and now has a young son. Despite dropping out of school, Mtonga still dreamed of running her own business […]
Mary Opoku-Asiama
November 11, 2019
Imagine a room filled with more than 50 secondary school students, many just starting to think about their future goals. On this particular day, students in Accra, Ghana are learning about careers in agriculture. Contrary to what many in the room think, it’s not just about farming. Rather, they might become forestry experts, wildlife conservationists, […]
Helping Women Shape the Future of Africa
November 11, 2019
A Winrock Legacy Story The African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment (AWLAE) program began in 1989, just four years after Winrock’s founding. Stemming from its Rockefeller legacy — in particular the capacity-building of its legacy organization the Agricultural Development Council — the AWLAE program addressed the lack of highly educated African women in […]
Winrock and the World Food Prize
October 14, 2019
On October 16, World Food Day, the World Food Prize will be presented to Dutch plant breeder Simon Groot, who revolutionized the tropical seed business with his company East-West Seeds. Winrock has many connections to the prize and its current laureate. The year was 1985 and the ink was barely dry on Winrock’s merger document […]