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Errin Stanger to step down as director of Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub

March 6, 2024|post

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARK. – MARCH 6, 2024 – Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub Director Errin Stanger is departing the organization after serving 10 years in various leadership positions at the community makerspace in Argenta. “Errin has done an incredible job during her decade at the Hub,” said Winrock’s Acting President and CEO Joyjit Deb Roy. […]

Accelerating inclusive investment and progress: the rise of Senegalese women entrepreneurs

March 5, 2024|post

Dieynaba S. Thiam-Ka, a Senegalese female leader, is chief of party of the five-year USAID Entrepreneurship & Investment Activity implemented by Winrock International in Senegal. The goal of the team she leads is to promote entrepreneurship and business investment in collaboration with communities, Senegal’s government and the private sector – and to inclusively increase access […]
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Thai Crop Inside Ep 02 – Cassava Flour

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Cassava ranks among the top of Thailand’s cash crops, with global export shares of approximately 60% in 2022. Cassava has been in daily products, albeit in processed forms such as noodles and bakery, disinfecting alcohol, paper, glue, fiber, pharmaceutical capsules. This video highlights an emerging consumer product made from cassava that is gluten-flour cassava flour. […]
Entering 2024 with wind in our sails- ACR outlines three priorities for the year ahead

Entering 2024 with wind in our sails: ACR outlines three priorities for the year ahead

February 9, 2024|post

This story was originally published on acrcarbon.org. I have become a firm believer in the power of carbon markets to drive increased climate ambition and action, and the voluntary carbon market is a vital tool to keep 1.5C in reach. Let’s not waste any more time or let the perfect be the enemy of the […]
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Progress to catalyze Jurisdictional REDD+

February 8, 2024|post

This blog post was originally published on Feb. 2, 2024 by the Environmental Defense Fund at EDF.org. It was authored by Angela Churie Kallhauge, executive vice president, impact at Environmental Defense Fund, with contributions from Katie Goslee, director of nature-based solutions, Winrock International; Stephanie Wang, associate director, Wildlife Conservation Society; Jason Funk, REDD+ strategy director at Conservation International; […]
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Inside Climate News spotlights Winrock International’s work in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area

February 7, 2024|post

Inside Climate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit news organization focused on climate reporting and analysis, cited Winrock International’s carbon assessment work in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area in a feature story. The article, entitled “In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot,” by Florida-based reporter Amy Green, states: “Growing evidence suggests that draining the water […]
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USAID supports MSMEs to improve smallholder farmers’ access to agro-inputs

February 6, 2024|post

This story was originally published originally on usaid.gov/nigeria. Yarima Agro Inputs and Services is the only service provider in land preparation in Saminaka Community, Lere Local Government Area, Kaduna State. In the past, the firm was selling agro-inputs with no advisory services to farmers on the proper use of the products. As a result, the firm […]

Delta communities collaborate with Winrock to shape a prosperous future 

February 5, 2024|post

On an unseasonably warm mid-November day in Arkansas, five members of Winrock International’s Board of Directors accompanied a group of U.S.-based senior executives and Winrock program staff on an excursion to a unique destination: the Arkansas Delta. Arkansans know “the Delta” as it’s referred to regionally, but the patchwork of mostly flat, open-field farms and […]
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United States and El Salvador inaugurate ultrasonic buoys in the Lempa River

February 2, 2024|post

This story and photos were originally published by the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador on sv.usembassy.gov. The U.S. Government, through its U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), provided funding for the Upper Lempa River Basin Project. Ambassador Duncan presented ANDA El Salvador with a buoy system that will control harmful algae and ensure the water […]

FSTIP at a Glance

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The USAID funded and Winrock International implemented Fight Slavery and Trafficking-in-Persons (FSTIP) Activity is a 10 million dollar and five-year (July 2021 – June 2026) project. The project represents an important milestone in Bangladesh’s journey to self-reliance, which is a 15-year partnership between Winrock, USAID, and the Government of Bangladesh and civil society to pioneer […]
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