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A Winrock Breakthrough on Forest Degradation
October 24, 2016|post
When viewed from above, deforestation is a brown gash in a green world, vivid proof that what was once verdant has succumbed to the axe or the bulldozer. Forest degradation – the loss of trees from logging, fires or harvesting firewood – is much more difficult to detect, even by remote-sensing satellites. For that reason, […]
Forging Connections, Improving Lives in Nepal
October 23, 2016|post
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 […]
Fighting Exploitation with Opportunity
October 21, 2016|post
It must have seemed like a welcome chance to forge a new life. Promised the opportunity to earn the sort of income that would provide for themselves and their families, 54 Cambodian men made the difficult trek from their homes to what they thought would be jobs as fishermen in Malaysia. Instead, they became victims […]
Combating World Hunger
October 19, 2016|post
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|post
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 […]
Improved Understanding of Agriculture Production Through Crop Models
October 11, 2016|volunteer
It was towards the end of the Monsoon season when I arrived in Nepal in mid-August. This is the time of the year when mountains are in peak green, saturated with season’s moisture, all lives are thriving. My volunteer assignment in Nepal for the USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer Program with Winrock International was to provide a 10-day […]
La Thi Kim Ngan
October 3, 2016|post
This portrait is part of the USAID Vietnam Clean Energy Program’s series on women champions in the Vietnamese construction sector, featuring women who have made strides in this male-dominated field, coming from diverse backgrounds and with different interests, but bound together by the common themes of a strong work ethic, love of country, a strong […]
The Ultimate Reward: Adoption of New Ideas and Practices
September 27, 2016|volunteer
Starting out with the Farmer-to-Farmer Program in Bolivia in 1987, I have had a long history of many projects in many countries. Most of my work has been in Latin America since I am fluent in Spanish from my wonderful Peace Corps years in Guatemala 40 years ago. A few years ago I decided to […]
Winrock International Announces New Board Members
September 22, 2016|post
LITTLE ROCK, AR – SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 – Winrock International, the U.S.-based national and international economic development organization, today announced the appointments of Samar Ali and William Rockefeller to its Board of Directors. Ali, the first Arab-American board member in the organization’s history, brings a wealth of experience from both the public and private sectors, […]
Winrock & Concordia Form Partnership to Address Labor Trafficking
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It’s a long way from the glittering canyons of Manhattan to the cramped confines of a fishing vessel in Southeast Asia. But a new partnership between Winrock International and the nonprofit organization Concordia is about to make that distance shorter. The partnership, the Concordia Campaign Against Human Trafficking, was announced Tuesday, September 20, at the […]