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Water from the Sun
August 15, 2017|post
By Chris Warren From the hillside where Bhim Gurung stands on a sodden August afternoon, water would seem to be the least of his worries. It’s not just that a light drizzle continuously falls on the already glistening trees and grass that surround Gurung’s small village of Taule in the southern province of Surkhet in […]
August Volunteer of the Month
August 15, 2017|volunteer
Winrock’s August Volunteer of the Month is Ms. Erin Riley, a Rio Puerco Field Office Rangeland Management Specialist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Albuquerque, NM. Erin took a different kind of trip to do a volunteer assignment with Winrock International and USAID. Erin traveled to Zaria, Nigeria, for two weeks to assist […]
Term Definitions
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TERM DEFINITION Land cover Land cover is categorized into the following classes in WESTool: forest, cropland, plantation, wetland, water, and urban/developed. Deforestation A unit of land that was converted from forest to another land use, like cropland or plantation. Carbon stocks The amount of carbon that is stored in vegetation and measured in tons […]
Steve Brunn
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Steve Brunn is Winrock’s Senior Director of Private Sector Engagement. Steve works across Winrock, integrating the private sector into proposals and projects to maximize the scale and sustainability of Winrock’s impact. He was previously the director of responsible sourcing at Target, where he oversaw human rights, labor rights and environmental sustainability for one of the […]
Sustainable Water Partnership Launches SWPWater.org
August 9, 2017|post
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 8, 2017 – SWPWater.org, launched by the USAID Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), led by Winrock International, will enable greater access to information and resources about global water security. Through the aggregation of water security news and innovations, and the publication of original resources and toolkits, SWPWater.org will foster public-private collaboration across […]
Myanmar Mango Farmers Hungry for Knowledge
August 8, 2017|volunteer
This week’s blog comes from F2F Volunteer, Dr. Malcom Manners, an expert in nursery management and tropical fruit propagation methods. He is a professor and Chairman of the Horticulture Department at Florida Southern College and has completed over 16 volunteer consulting trips around the world. In late May and early June, 2017, I worked on […]
What is Water Security?
August 7, 2017|post
By Eric Viala, Sustainable Water Partnership Director Water fuels every aspect of life. It’s essential for basic health and hygiene, and it drives society’s most essential industries: agriculture, energy and transportation. Without water security there can be no national security. In fact, water is essential to the stability of every country on the planet. Understanding […]
A Life Changing Experience for First-Time Volunteers
August 1, 2017|volunteer
Dr. Tyson Sorenson of Utah State University and Dr. Aaron McKim of Michigan State University, recently completed their first-time Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer assignment in Guinea. After completion of their assignment, an institutional assessment, we asked each to share how the assignment affected them personally and professionally. Here’s what they had to say about their experience. […]
Breaking New Ground
July 28, 2017|post
Joel Gordon grew up in North Little Rock and remembers a time when its downtown area — dubbed Argenta — was “the area of town that you tried not to be caught in.” These days, though, Argenta is “absolutely blooming.” Gordon, now the executive director of the Innovation Hub at Winrock International, is seeing the […]
From the Fruits of Bangladesh, Come New Experiences
July 25, 2017|volunteer
Thomas Sallee recently returned from his second trip to Bangladesh, where he built the statistical analysis skills of faculty from Jessore University of Science and Technology and International University of Business Agriculture and Technology in order for them to conduct improved, advanced agricultural research. He shares his thoughts below on the differences and similarities between his […]