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Women Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking in Nepal

March 4, 2021|post

As part of the counter-trafficking efforts of the Hamro Samman project in Nepal, women are leading community engagement, awareness and advocacy efforts at the local level. Hamro Samman, supported by USAID and UK aid and implemented by Winrock International, aims to reduce human trafficking in Nepal. The project’s Leadership for Change (LfC) training equips at-risk […]

SWP to Hold Discussion about Mara River Basin Project

January 25, 2021|post

Join the USAID Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) and its partners in Kenya and Tanzania for a discussion about the project’s achievements, lessons learned, and the future of transboundary water governance in the Mara River Basin. To attend the event, click here. Beginning in 2018, SWP worked with transboundary, national, regional, and local institutions and community organizations […]

Celebrating 35 Years of Making the World Smaller… One Volunteer at a Time

December 16, 2020|post

Flash back to 1985: “Live Aid” concerts raise millions for famine relief in Ethiopia, Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power and Michael Jordan is named NBA’s Rookie of the Year. In the U.S. Congress, another Farm Bill quietly passes — this one with a tiny amount of funding for an obscure USAID program now officially titled […]

Resilient Together: Farmer-to-Farmer in Mali

December 3, 2020|post

Yacouba Diarra, an émigré from Côte d’Ivoire to Mali, has lived and worked in the small southern community of Bougouni since 2005. Diarra is a member of the 70 member Bougouni Farmers’ Cooperative (BFC), and they organize fishermen and animal breeders to mutually support one another to increase production, improve nutrition, and raise incomes throughout […]

ART Approved to Supply Credits for Global Aviation’s Carbon Market

November 23, 2020|post

ARLINGTON, VA — November 23, 2020 — The Secretariat of the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) is pleased to announce that national and subnational approaches to reducing forest loss have been approved as a means for international aviation to achieve carbon neutral growth after 2020. This decision marks the first time that these approaches have been […]

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 […]

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 […]