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Capture Change Story: Behind the Industry of Sweetness
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“It is not easy to find sugarcane workers now. Without those migrant workers, it is difficult for us to finish harvesting. They are even more productive than Thai laborers.” – LAMYAI PHOTON
Capture Change Story: Dao Eng
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“People might think that women should always submit to men. Women should stay home, cooking and cleaning, while men are the breadwinners. This is gender inequality. For me, I believe that men and women are equal. Even if we are women, we can work and rely on ourselves.” – PHUU PWINT KHAING
Drought-Affected Communities Restore Degraded Lands to Transform their Future
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Over the past 20 years, Niger, a semi-arid country in West Africa, has faced multiple severe drought episodes with short- and long-term consequences for its most vulnerable inhabitants. No longer having enough money to live, they must resort to harmful coping strategies such as taking children out of school, reducing their daily meals, or selling […]
Scaling up to combat illegal logging in the South Pacific – and cultivate an environmentally sustainable future
December 5, 2022|post
Chief John Andrew Kiri of North Malaita is blunt in his assessment of environmental conditions in and around his tropical community’s lands – and indeed, across all of Malaita, the most populous and largest island by size in the Solomon Islands. “In the northern region, the slash and burn gardening method contributes a lot to […]
ART issues world’s first jurisdictional forestry carbon credits to Guyana
December 1, 2022|post
ARLINGTON, VA, December 1, 2022 – The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) has issued the world’s first TREES credits to Guyana. This also marks a milestone as the first time a country has been issued carbon credits specifically designed for the voluntary and compliance carbon markets for successfully preventing forest loss and degradation — a […]
Winrock International awarded grant to advance broadband and tourism along the Delta Rhythm & Bayous highway
November 28, 2022|post
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARK. ─ Nov. 28, 2022 ─ Winrock International has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development to advance rural connectivity and improve tourism infrastructure in four Arkansas Delta communities under the Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge. Winrock and local partners will implement the Arkansas Delta Rhythm & Bayous […]
The Climate Q&A…
November 10, 2022|post
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 […]
Evidence2Action
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This year’s Evidence2Action Summit will include participatory workshops on the following thematic areas: The registration has already been sent to the invitation list. If you have not received the invitation and are interested in participating in the summit, you can express your interest by sending an email to evidence2action@winrock.org. Please note that attendees are expected to […]
From Jonesboro to Kathmandu: Goat sires from the Natural State go global
November 2, 2022|post
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|post
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 […]