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New Video: ‘All Farmers Are a Family’
February 2, 2017
It would be easy to assume that Cody Hopkins and Yurien Bec Jelis would struggle to find something to talk about. Hopkins is an Arkansas native who taught high school physics in Rhode Island before the pull of his roots drew him south again to rural Searcy County. Back home, Hopkins and his […]
Faces of the Value Chain
December 14, 2016
When Kumar Thapa was a young boy growing up in the green, rolling hills of midwestern Nepal, he knew exactly how he wanted to occupy his days. “I wanted to study,” says Thapa, now 24, as he sits amidst rows of ripening tomato and chili plants that cover the hillside plot of land where he […]
Kids and Cookstoves
November 30, 2016
By Lindsay Dworman Last year, when members of Winrock’s child labor team in Malawi attended a workshop on fuel-efficient cookstoves organized by Winrock’s clean energy team, what their two projects had in common wasn’t necessarily obvious. What soon became clear, however, was that advancing one project’s goals helped achieve the other’s, and together they are […]
Building a Better Mousetrap
November 18, 2016
By Ben Amick, Senior Adviser, Winrock’s Business Development and External Affairs Group Editor’s Note: Winrock is empowering Asian farmers through mentorship and support. You never quite know where that innovation will lead. When I first met the Rat Hunter Team in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, it had some cardboard cutouts and an idea — a contraption […]
2015 Annual Report: Impact and Innovation
November 15, 2016
A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Two years ago, we launched an ambitious reimagining of Winrock’s approach to international development. The aim was to combine our organization’s long history of innovation and achievement with new strategies and approaches to position us for success in a rapidly evolving development environment. The past year has provided plenty of evidence […]
Translating Events Into Action
October 26, 2016
Winrock’s very existence can be traced back to a big idea: that delivering knowledge, training and opportunity to the world’s most disadvantaged people is key to improving lives. New ideas and innovation continue to propel our day-to-day work and guide our efforts to make an even greater impact. The need to generate and share bold […]
Forging Connections, Improving Lives in Nepal
October 23, 2016
Judging by geography alone, Kumar Thapa lives an isolated life. Thapa’s hillside plot of land in the midwestern Nepalese district of Surkhet is surrounded by the tomato and chili plants that he carefully cultivates. There’s a quiet here that is broken only by the sounds of human labor – weeds being pulled or crops being […]
Combating World Hunger
October 19, 2016
It’s the 30th anniversary of the World Food Prize and the Sasakawa Africa Association. Winrock has a connection to both. By Amanda Hilligas I’ve just returned from the 2016 Laureate Award Ceremony of the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. Often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Agriculture, the World Food Prize is an award […]
Friend of the Farmer
October 11, 2016
Dr. Jeff Mutimba grew up on a small farm in Zimbabwe, which was then called Rhodesia. He rose early in the morning to do chores and wash in the river before running to school. After school he would weed or take the family’s few cattle to a communal grazing area. Mutimba was lucky. The farm […]
Video: Burmese Coffee Arrives in America
September 17, 2016
The story of Burmese specialty coffee is what happens when everything goes right: when the crop is promising, the growers are willing to embrace new production methods and the market is ready for a new coffee origin. As implementer of the USAID-funded Value Chains for Rural Development project, Winrock International is proud to be a […]