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From Every Angle: Winrock’s Commitment to Water Security in Tanzania

November 17, 2020|post

Winrock has worked in Tanzania across a variety of sectors over the past 40 years, and much of its work there over the last decade has been dedicated to improving water resource allocation and management to ensure sustainable, equitable access to water for all. Water security has always been a priority for Tanzania, especially increasing […]

How Arkansas Became the U.S. Edamame Capital

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PROJECT NAME: Market Potential of Using Specialty Soybeans as Replacement Crops in Arkansas River Valley SYNOPSIS: Winrock U.S. Programs develops solutions for the challenges facing rural communities, from farming to entrepreneurial development. Its work on edamame in Arkansas was funded through the United States Department of Agriculture. YEARS ACTIVE: 2010-2011 FUNDER: USDA A WINROCK LEGACY […]

Empowering Women, Protecting Wetlands and Strengthening Co-Management in Bangladesh

October 13, 2020|post

What were the major components of the CREL project? CREL focused on strengthening biodiversity protection and conservation in four ecologically important regions of Bangladesh and built community and ecosystem resilience to the effects of climate change. We catalyzed more effective communication and linkages with other stakeholders, created and improved policies that support community involvement in […]

Collaborating for Native Communities

October 6, 2020|post

By the time A-dae Briones joined a late March conference call with national funders and partners about the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains in the U.S., she had already spent days fielding appeals for food and water from Native American communities across the Southwest. As non-Native leaders on the call discussed the congressional […]

Hasan’s Innovative Greenhouse

October 1, 2020|post

Hasan Nurov is from Navzamin village in Khuroson district, Tajikistan. For generations, Hasan’s family, like many farmers in the district, grew cotton. However, over time, water scarcity and low cotton prices created a conundrum for farmers. Should they continue growing an unprofitable crop, or instead migrate to Russia, where there were higher paying jobs? Previously, […]

Planting Seeds That Will Grow Forever

September 30, 2020|volunteer

After 6 years at the helm of the Farmer-to-Farmer team in Senegal, our beloved Mama Toure retires today.  Before she started with Winrock in June 2014, Mama became a member of the Africa Women Leaders in Agriculture and Environment (AWLAE) network that Winrock helped form and strengthen in the 1980s. She received her Master’s in […]

‘SAFETI’ in Numbers

August 24, 2020|post

A Winrock Early Adopter Story In the village of Jogindranagar, Shyamnagar, in the Satkhira district of Bangladesh, young men often spend six months a year away from home and family, toiling in the brick fields. It’s difficult work, dusty and dangerous, but the men keep returning because they can earn up to 200,000 BDT (more […]

Setting the Carbon Standard

July 23, 2020|post

Winrock International is known for sound science and environmental integrity, and has worked for decades to mobilize climate actions that benefit the world’s most vulnerable populations through operation of the American Carbon Registry (ACR) and Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART). “Winrock believes that climate change will have a profound impact on the world’s most at-risk […]

Winrock Mourns the Passing of David W. Kaiser (1969-2020)

July 21, 2020|post

Trailblazing climate advocate and longtime Winrock Board member, David W. Kaiser, passed away on July 15, 2020 at a family home on Mount Desert Island, Maine. He was 50 years old. Mr. Kaiser is survived by his mother, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, also a former Winrock board member; a sister, Miranda Kaiser; his wife, Rosemary Corbett, […]

Surviving Human Trafficking

July 1, 2020|post

By Dinara Saliyeva Razia (name changed to protect her identity) crouched behind the bushes along a highway in Kazakhstan, hiding every time a car passed by. She was determined to escape, fearful that her “owner” was chasing her and that she might have to return to the meaningless existence she had been trapped in for […]