Resources
Solar Water Pump (SWP) Return on Investment Case Study: Homa Bay County, Kenya
Winrock International’s USAID-funded Kenya Smallholder Solar Irrigation (KSSI) project is working to accelerate commercial sales of SWPs to small farmers. Through collaboration with USAID’s Kenya Agricultural Value Chains Enterprises (KAVES) project, KSSI staff met Ms. Lilian Akinyi, who rents a farm in Homa Bay County near Luala Kambuya village. She was using a diesel pump […]
Solar Water Pump (SWP) Return on Investment Case Study: Machakos County, Kenya
Winrock International’s USAID-funded Kenya Smallholder Solar Irrigation (KSSI) project is working to accelerate commercial sales of SWPs to smallholder farmers. Through collaboration with USAID’s Kenya Agricultural Value Chains Enterprises (KAVES) project, KSSI staff met Mr. Shadrack Nzioka, who has farmed since 2006 in Muuani Village, Machakos County. He was using a diesel pump to transfer […]
Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Avian Influenza Prevention and Control: The Case of Village Poultry Farming in Myanmar (2001-2009)
In November 2007 the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Winrock co-funded a one-year applied research project to assess the socio-economic impacts of AI on rural poultry farmers in Myanmar. The winning research team, commissioned through an open grant competition, was led by Dr. (Ms.) Ai Thandar Kyaw, Assistant Veterinary Officer at the Yangon […]
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to Benefit the Rural Poor Thailand and Vietnam (2006-2009)
The Program’s inaugural research team, commissioned through a September 2005 grant competition, investigated how the rural poor can be compensated for protecting environmental services needed by urban residents, such as clean drinking water from forest watersheds. These “payments for environmental services” (PES) can provide a sustainable livelihood for rural communities while protecting sensitive forest watersheds. […]
The Hidden Costs of Migration: Evaluating the Bangladesh-Malaysia Corridor
Malaysia has been employing millions of Bangladeshi migrant workers since the 1980s. In 2012, the governments of Malaysia and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on labor migration. The MOU, known as the G2G (government to government) program, allowed Bangladesh to send migrant workers to Malaysia’s plantation sector. The G2G program was later reformed […]
Creating a Legal Basis for Community Co-management of Wetlands (Under USAID CREL Project in Bangladesh) (2016-2018)
In Bangladesh, freshwater wetlands provide fish, an important source of protein, to millions of people. These “haor” ecosystems are threatened by over-harvesting of fish and destruction of wetlands for other land uses. Evidence from other countries shows that community-based approaches to conservation can protect fragile ecosystems, like haors, from overexploitation. However, in Bangladesh, there is […]
Future of Smallholder Poultry Production in Cambodia and Lao PDR: Uncertainty and Future Prospective (2009-2010)
In late 2008 the JDR 3RD Scholars Program commissioned a research team to assess socio-economic factors affecting Avian Influenza (AI) prevention in Cambodia and Lao PDR. The winning team, selected through an open grant competition, was led by Mr. Suon Seng, Executive Director of the Center for Development-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Livelihood Systems (CENTDOR), […]
Birds in Sandan
A brief guide for visitors to Sandan community ecotourism Winrock International’s program for USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB) works with the local community in Sandan to conserve forests and biodiversity and to improve livelihoods of forest-dependent communities. This guide to birds in Sandan supports that program.