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Winrock CEO Addresses Recent American Events
June 2, 2020|post
President and CEO Rodney Ferguson recently addressed Winrock staff about the events of the past week. Here are his comments: When I sat down to write this message, I first considered calling it “A Statement on the Death of George Floyd.” I then realized how absurd and inadequate that title would be, because it should, […]
‘We have our difficulties, but we can overcome them.’
January 10, 2020|post
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and January 11, 2020, is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. This is the story of one counter-trafficking victim who survived almost unimaginable conditions to build a new life for himself. It is a story of endurance, courage and hope. When Yim Bunthen, of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, learned that […]
‘You can accomplish a dream — you can jump out there and do it.’
December 13, 2019|post
“I grew up in a family with 56 women and four men. So essentially, we had a whole lotta moms and not a lot of dads” Winrock’s Chauncey Holloman Pettis told the crowd at The Yarn, an organization that uses the power of storytelling to build understanding and human connection in Little Rock, Arkansas. “This left the […]
SADC Groundwater Conference: Collaboration is Key to Southern African Sustainability Goals
November 1, 2019|post
Experts from Southern Africa and beyond gathered recently in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the annual SADC Groudwater Conference, hosted by the Groundwater Management Institute of the Southern African Development Community. The conference focused on assessing progress toward achieving the goals set forth in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The U.N. agenda set ambitious […]
Winrock CEO: Companies Can Act Responsibly and Innovate Too
October 7, 2019|post
The Business Roundtable’s recent call to expand the notion of corporate accountability beyond shareholder value has provoked reaction across the ideological spectrum. But as Winrock CEO Rodney Ferguson writes in Arkansas Business, this statement by top American business leaders only acknowledges growing consumer demand for corporations to take a longer-term approach. By broadening the definition […]
American Carbon Registry Presents Annual Awards to Celebrate Outstanding Environmental Achievements
April 25, 2019|post
LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2019 – Last night, the American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, hosted its annual gala reception to recognize and thank its members and partners. ACR Director John Kadyszewski welcomed guests, presented highlights from the year and described the awards to be presented, including the individual Climate Leadership […]
Access to Water is Not Equal: This Framework Can Help
December 18, 2018|post
When it comes to addressing inequality, water management needs improvement. Analysis often lacks the tools and granular data to detect the disparities that underlie inequality. For example, a model might show that water supply is plentiful at the basin level—without revealing that remote, small farms within that basin struggle with scarcity. The result is a water […]
Tocantins REDD+
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The state of Tocantins in Brazil is dominated by wooded savannahs called the cerrado. These once-vast ecosystems are threatened by expanding cattle ranching and agriculture, and rates of deforestation in the cerrado now exceed those in the Amazon. Winrock providing technical support to the Government of Tocantins in developing a sub-national REDD+ program to provide […]
Pterocarpus erinaceus: an important legume tree in African savannas
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FACT 99-03, June 1999 A quick guide to multipurpose trees from around the world Pterocarpus erinaceus is a deciduous legume tree of African savannas and dry forests famous for producing one of the finest woods in its native region. It also produces leafy fodder high in protein, which makes an excellent animal feed crucial for […]