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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 […]
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 […]
Schartup and Beaujault to lead Sahel Water Security and Resilience Effort
December 30, 2019|post
Winrock International’s Sustainable Water Partnership is pleased to announce the additions of Harvey Schartup as chief of party and Patrice Beaujault as deputy chief of party of the USAID-funded TerresEauVie (TEV) water security and resilience activity in Niger and Burkina Faso. “I am excited to begin the work of addressing this region’s challenges through TerresEauVie,” Schartup said. “These challenges […]
Embedded at COP25
December 19, 2019|post
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 25, held December 2-13 in Madrid, Winrock experts spoke at multiple events on many of the defining topics of COP25: carbon markets, community-led adaptation, and private sector engagement in adaptation. Michael Cote, Meghan Doherty, Mary Grady, Chris Hancock, John Kadyszewski, Jennifer Norfolk and Anmol Vanamali were all […]
Educating girls, changing lives
December 17, 2019|post
Every weekday morning, 26-year-old teacher Fily Camara drives nearly two hours from her home in Bandiagara along dusty roads to a rural village called Tongnon. Sometimes, she admits, she’s scared. Outside the cities of this hot, arid country just south of the Sahara Desert, armed militants are known to attack or kidnap motorists as an […]
‘You can accomplish a dream — you can jump out there and do it.’
December 13, 2019|post
“I grew up in a family with 56 women and four men. So essentially, we had a whole lotta moms and not a lot of dads” Winrock’s Chauncey Holloman Pettis told the crowd at The Yarn, an organization that uses the power of storytelling to build understanding and human connection in Little Rock, Arkansas. “This left the […]
Experienced Farmer More Than Doubles His Income
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Ponchanon Biswas is a clerk at the high school adjacent to his home in Mohishdanda village, Assasuni, Satkhira. The limited salary from his job is not adequate to support his family of six. To supplement his income, for the last 20 years he has been cultivating shrimp, and has become an experienced farmer. He has […]
Matching Innovation to Need
December 12, 2019|post
Luis took a break from the virtual welding station and approached a man holding a pen and a reporter’s notebook. Luis, 50, drives a forklift on an early-morning shift, he explained, and welding could be a path to a brighter and more lucrative future. “It’s a good option for when I need a new job,” […]
On the Frontlines of Climate Change
December 9, 2019|post
Bangladesh regularly tops the list of countries most heavily affected by global climate change. With over half the U.S. population in a country the size of New York state, its vulnerability is compounded by low-lying, flood-plain geography, limited infrastructure and high exposure to natural disasters and extreme weather. The day I landed in Dhaka, the […]
What’s in a Game?
November 13, 2019|post
This article was originally published in USAID’s Climatelinks. In Ghana, a changing climate is affecting the production of cocoa, one of the country’s major cash crops and its second leading foreign exchange earner. USAID and Winrock International worked together to produce ECO Game: Northern Ghana to provide communities with a better sense of land use planning […]