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A Fruitful Partnership
February 24, 2020|post
Philanthropies’ crucial early support of Winrock International’s work continues to benefit the organization — and the world. It’s been a decade since the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) helped fund Winrock’s entry into the California carbon market through its American Carbon Registry (ACR) enterprise. The grant supported the development of an ACR office and staff […]
Indonesia Honors Winrock Scientist’s Conservation Efforts
February 19, 2020|post
The smoke came into his house and stayed, obscuring each room like an indoor fog. Inside, Arif Budiman watched his young children cry as they struggled to breathe in the dry-season heat. Outside the city where Budiman and his family lived in Sumatra, Indonesia’s largest island, stretched a landscape on fire. Ancient wetlands, drained to […]
Winrock and Kasetsart
February 19, 2020|post
A Winrock Legacy Story Winrock International’s connection with Thailand’s Kasetsart University began before Winrock itself. Only 12 years after Kasetsart was established in 1943, one of Winrock’s founding organizations, the New York City-based Agricultural Development Council (then known as the Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs), began helping Kasetsart University form an agricultural economics program. […]
Lightning Talks and Solutions Exchanges
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Lightning Talks: Market Channels and Equitable Development The Trend of Data-Driven Farmers Markets, Darlene Wolnik, Senior Advisor, Farmers Market Coalition A legacy community development corporation’s work to transform the food system in Central Brooklyn, Alexis Harrison, Partnership Coordinator, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Helping CSA farmers offer cost-offset CSAs to Low Income Families, Marilyn Sitaker, Resource […]
Practical Imagination
February 14, 2020|post
A Winrock Legacy Story Winrock Chairman and CEO Rodney Ferguson was recently asked to reflect on Winrock International’s legacy and to give an overview of its current work. Here are his prepared remarks: Hello, and thank you for having me here. It’s an honor and a pleasure to talk with you today about Winrock International. […]
Finance and Financing
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Planning for Success – Choosing Which Equipment and Facilities to Buy Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 What is the right level of investment in equipment and facilities for your food hub, and how do you set priorities for overhead expenditures? And what’s the best way to make the investments? Should you buy, rent, lease, beg, borrow, […]
Market Channels
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Grocery and corner stores: Three from-the-field strategies activating retailers to grow equitable, regional food systems Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 Billions of food dollars are spent every year at grocery stores in the United States. Yet many smaller independent stores, which are often the sole outposts of healthy food in urban and rural communities, struggle in […]
Value Chain Coordination
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Roles of Value Chain Coordination: A Development Framework to Bolster Regional Food Value Chains, Entrepreneurship and Community Capacity Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 “Soft” or social infrastructure is a critical foundation for developing thriving regional agri-food systems. Matchmaking, providing technical assistance, convening stakeholders, procuring funding, catalyzing new ideas, conducting assessment and advocating for policy, are the […]
Shifting Power
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Make Yourself Obsolete: Shifting Power from Non-Profit Leadership to Community Leadership Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 Community empowerment happens when non-profits and funders step back and community-based projects thrive. Through facilitated dialogue and examples from successful Community Food Projects – including food hubs, community gardens and a farm-to-school program – attendees will create powerful design templates […]
Place Based Economic Development
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Lessons Learned – Food Business Failures in New Orleans Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 In the past five years, several important food system businesses have come, gone and failed in New Orleans. From food halls to food hubs, businesses prioritizing local sourcing have shuttered their businesses, often leaving local growers holding outstanding invoices that will never […]