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Networks and Collaboration
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Tools for Partnering with Indigenous Food Systems Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 Building allyship begins with recognizing indigenous history and contributions to the landscape and food system. Indigenous peoples have developed sophisticated food systems and place-based economies over generations of knowledge sharing and direct relationship with the land. The current Indigenous food sovereignty movement taking place […]
Food Hub Operations
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Food Hub Supply Chain Risks Wednesday March 11th, 2:15-3:45 This interactive session aims to build capacity for food system practitioners, such as food hub managers and staff, through new knowledge sharing, individual and group activities in the area of supply chain risk management. The session includes presentations that are new in their type to systematically […]
New Health Tech Could Revolutionize Cardiac Arrest Recovery
February 11, 2020|post
Louisiana-based health tech startup NeuroRescue is developing an innovative device to preserve brain function following cardiac arrest. From a pool of 139 applicants, NeuroRescue is one of 19 startups selected to participate in the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)-funded Accelerate South start up accelerator. In the Acadiana region of Louisiana, the regional economy has been […]
Refining the Process
February 10, 2020|post
It was 2015 and the oil market had just crashed as Michael Smith sat down to lunch in Little Rock with his friend Barry Lile. In more than two decades as a salesman in the used oil business, Smith had developed a national network of suppliers such as car repair shops, quick lubes, grocery stores […]
Women and Climate Leadership
February 10, 2020|post
On U.N.’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, February 11, Winrock salutes all the girls and women our projects educate and empower — as well as the female scientists on our staff, who use their talents to help societies thrive. Last year I was selected to join the fourth cohort of Homeward Bound, […]
2020 NGFN Conference Speakers
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: Welcome to NGFN 2020! Moderator: John Fisk, Wallace Center – John Fisk is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the Wallace Center at Winrock International. After 13 years as Director of the Wallace Center, John has taken this new role to support the growth and diversification of the […]
DRA and Winrock Extend Delta I-Fund to Help Delta Entrepreneurs Launch Startups
February 5, 2020|post
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) has awarded Winrock International a $675,785 grant to continue the successful Delta Innovation Fund (I-Fund) program through October 2021. Modeled on the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program, the I-Fund is a proof-of-concept business training program designed to assist potential start-up companies emerging from universities and communities across the DRA’s eight-state, […]
Fighting Wetland Loss Through Sustainable Development
January 30, 2020|post
On February 2, 1971, representatives from a handful of countries gathered in the small Iranian city of Ramsar on the Caspian Sea. Their historic mandate — to sign the first modern agreement between governments to preserve natural resources — built upon a decade of negotiations by environmentalists concerned by […]
How Arkansas Became the Nation’s Edamame Capital
January 23, 2020|post
A Winrock Legacy Story Herby Ault, who farms near Dardanelle, Arkansas, had never heard of edamame when Kelly Cartwright first approached him about growing it. But Cartwright, an agricultural scientist and entrepreneur, had done the math and knew it would work. “We had the numbers and we also had the market,” says Cartwright, who leads the Natural […]
Quality and Rigor in TIP Research in the Mekong Region
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There is increasing recognition in the counter-trafficking in persons (CTIP) community that our knowledge of trafficking in persons (TIP) must be informed and driven by robust evidence. Effective programming and policymaking requires combining scientific evidence (that is, TIP research) with other forms of evidence including CTIP program data (that is, M&E data, assessments, evaluations, case […]