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My Experience Working With An United States Volunteer
July 8, 2021|volunteer
What was the best part about contributing to Farmer-to-Farmer as a national volunteer in your country/region? The best part was to have played my part in moving the beekeeping industry forward despite Covid 19 which made it impossible for the international volunteer to be on ground. What was the best part about working with a […]
New scholarship honors the past and prepares for the future
June 24, 2021|post
A Winrock Legacy Story It was the early 1990s, and biologist Sitan Traore had a dream, one that seems eerily prescient given the world we live in: she wanted to help study and control illness in her home country, Mali. “In Africa there are so many diseases — in humans and animals — that are […]
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COLLAGE Winrock is in the transformation business — from protecting food security in Ghana to saving forests in Vietnam; from the American Carbon Registry in the United States to an anti-child labor project in Liberia and counter-trafficking work in Bangladesh. 2017-2019 BEHIND RECEPTION DESK Winrock celebrates entrepreneurs — and the renewable energy that fuels them. […]
Jude Kearney Elected Winrock International Board Chair
June 14, 2021|post
LITTLE ROCK, AR – June 14, 2021 – Winrock International, the U.S.-based national and international economic development organization, is proud to announce the election of Jude Kearney as Chair of the Winrock International Board of Directors. Kearney is the managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office of ASAFO & Co. LLP and has served on […]
Communities, Companies and Conservation: Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) Practitioner’s Guidebook
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The Vietnam Forests and Deltas Project (VFD) ran from 2012-2021 in partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The first phase of VFD supported the acceleration of Vietnam’s transition to climate-resilient, low-emission, sustainable development by improving forest and natural resource management and engaging communities in the development of action plans to address […]
The Climate Q&A…
June 10, 2021|post
Can you each tell us a little about yourselves and how you became interested in child labor issues? Julie: Growing up, I always had an interest in places, cultures, languages, and people beyond the confines of my neighborhood, school, and community. I sought out opportunities to understand others’ life circumstances, which helped broaden my perspective. […]
Power of Place: Winrock Fosters Revitalization and Innovation in Rural Arkansas
June 7, 2021|post
In the rear of an empty city lot in downtown Stuttgart, Arkansas, population 9,195, five school-aged kids sit down and quietly erect a giant Jenga tower. It’s just there, waiting to be built on a Saturday morning, so they do. Over on the side, a young couple plops into a pair of chairs facing an […]
ACR Becomes First Crediting Program Approved by ICAO for post-2020 Credits
June 2, 2021|post
June 2, 2021 – American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, is pleased to announce the recent decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to extend the eligibility of ACR offset credits for compliance under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), to include units […]
Episode 3: Matthew Maltby on Biodiversity
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“Biodiversity and the protection of biodiversity is really fundamental to ensuring that resilience can be achieved all around the world.” Winrock’s Matthew Maltby explains the importance of biodiversity and the role of well-managed protected areas in strengthening resilience to climate change.
ACR Testifies before the U.S. Senate on the State of U.S. Forest Carbon Markets
May 20, 2021|post
WASHINGTON, D.C. – MAY 20, 2021 – Today, the American Carbon Registry’s Director of Forestry, Jessica Orrego, testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry for its hearing on Federal, State, and Private Forestlands: Opportunities for Addressing Climate Change. ACR, a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, was invited to testify […]