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Model Farm School & Livelihood Programs Change Life of Youth
Mercy Dahn, 17, had been working on her father’s rubber farm in Karnwee, Nimba County, Liberia since she was 9 years old. At first, her job was to dig holes and plant young rubber trees. But as she grew older, the work became more challenging and dangerous. Mercy was tasked with cleaning the collection cups […]
ARCH: Letter from Project Director
The Actions to Reduce Child Labor Project (ARCH) is a four-year project designed to initiate actions to reduce child labor in rubber production areas in Liberia. This project is financed by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) and is being implemented by Winrock International under the USDOL cooperative agreement number IL-23978-13-75-K.
ARCH School Feeding Program
ARCH (Actions to Reduce Child Labor in Liberia) is a four-year program designed to complement efforts by the government, employers, workers and civil-society organizations in fighting child labor in Liberia’s rubbergrowing sector. ARCH is currently implementing a School Feeding Program (SFP) to address food security and poor school attendance, two root causes of child labor.
Specialty Coffee Production Ywangan 2017
Winrock’s International Community Specialty Coffee production for 2017 detailed map.
Coffee Communities in Shan State, Myanmar, 2017
This booklet is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for Interna-tional Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of Winrock International and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
Solar Milk Cooling: Smallholder Dairy Farmer Experience in Kenya Conference Proceedings
The USAID Photovoltaics for Sustainable Milk for Africa through Refrigeration Technology (PV SMART) project is a new and creative concept of providing on-farm solar milk refrigeration for off-grid dairy farmers in Kenya. It uses a modified off the shelf direct drive photovoltaic refrigerator (PVR) technology, coupled with innovative cooling and energy storage approaches to chill […]
Attribution of net carbon change by disturbance type across forest lands of the conterminous United States
Locating terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon (C) will be critical to developing strategies that contribute to the climate change mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement. Here we present spatially resolved estimates of net C change across United States (US) forest lands between 2006 and 2010 and attribute them to natural and anthropogenic processes.
ACTIVITY SUMMARY: Climate Smart Livelihoods to Support Sustainable Forest Management
Over the past years, changing climatic conditions and overexploitation of forest resources are putting stress on the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities throughout Vietnam. The USAID-funded Vietnam Forests and Deltas Program is working with ethnic minority communes in the upland forests of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa provinces to design and implement climate smart livelihood models […]