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The Climate Q&A…
November 10, 2022
You’ve mentioned the need to identify and plug climate finance gaps. Just how big are those gaps, and how can Winrock, our partners and others help to fill them? In simple terms a climate finance gap refers to the difference between what we need to invest to meet climate goals compared to what we are […]
From Jonesboro to Kathmandu: Goat sires from the Natural State go global
November 2, 2022
Lana Pyburn has fielded many requests for help finding interesting items over the years. As Winrock International’s senior director of procurement, she leads a team that keeps an organization working in more than 40 countries spread across all four hemispheres supplied with the materials they need to get the job done. And then there was […]
Science Venture Studio wins expansion funding and finds new home at Winrock International
November 1, 2022
Fayetteville, Ark. ─ Science Venture Studio (SVS) at Winrock, a nonprofit startup facilitator that helps promising science-and-technology companies obtain federal research funding to commercialize their technology, has been awarded a two-year extension by the Walton Family Foundation and will now be administered directly by Winrock International. Science Venture Studio works with early-stage science-and-technology companies to […]
Feed the Future projects implemented by Winrock pivot to address global food, fuel and fertilizer shortages
October 19, 2022
The global economy has been battered by COVID, the war in Ukraine, and extreme weather caused by climate change that has withered crops and flooded entire food-producing regions in Africa and Asia. The resulting humanitarian crises, supply chain breakdowns and inflation have affected people everywhere. But smallholder farmers and agribusiness owners in low-income countries are […]
Winrock awarded $7.9M by USDOS under the Program to End Modern Slavery to fight human trafficking linked to climate change
October 11, 2022
Winrock International has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to implement a $7.9 million project awarded by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under the USDOS Program to End Modern Slavery. The project will focus on Bangladesh’s farming and fishing industries. Winrock Senior Director of Human Rights, Education and Empowerment […]
The Climate Q&A…
September 29, 2022
You are Winrock International’s new Director of Net Zero Climate Services. Can you tell us why you joined Winrock and what some of your goals are? Winrock for me has always had a reputation as a pragmatic, results-oriented organization. When I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, I saw their work in action. Winrock […]
Climate-smart farming adaptation in Nepal featured on Agrilinks and Climatelinks
September 27, 2022
A blog posted on both Agrilinks and Climatelinks features a family that successfully adopted climate-smart farming practices in Nepal with support from the Feed the Future KISAN II project implemented by Winrock International. “Adaptation at the top of the world” tells the story of Surendra Bahadur Rana and his brothers, who once relied on seasonal […]
USDA awards $45M to Winrock International to expand climate-smart agriculture in Malawi and Thailand
September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $178 million investment in Food for Progress projects to support Biden-Harris administration priorities of climate-smart agriculture and facilitating trade, and selected Winrock to implement two of the seven projects. “Our team at Winrock is thrilled to have the chance to contribute to the […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture visits Arkansas to promote Winrock partnership and historic USDA investments to expand climate-smart agriculture
September 21, 2022
Breylan Portwood, a young Black farmer from Brinkley, Ark., seemed surprised when U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked if he would mind standing to be recognized. The secretary was in the middle of a panel discussion about a set of ambitious new USDA-funded climate-smart agriculture and markets projects soon to be started in Arkansas and […]
U.S. Small business owners, take 10 minutes to describe your past year
September 21, 2022
Owners and key financial decision-makers of for-profit businesses, share your recent experiences. Did your business seek financing such as loans or lines of credit in the last 12 months? How would you rate the financial condition of your business? The Federal Reserve’s 2022 Small Business Credit Survey is open for responses, and Winrock International is […]