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SADC Groundwater Conference: Collaboration is Key to Southern African Sustainability Goals
November 1, 2019|post
Experts from Southern Africa and beyond gathered recently in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the annual SADC Groudwater Conference, hosted by the Groundwater Management Institute of the Southern African Development Community. The conference focused on assessing progress toward achieving the goals set forth in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The U.N. agenda set ambitious […]
Winrock Scientists Improve Carbon Sequestration Data
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Continuing a long tradition of breakthrough research, Winrock International scientists in 2018 published a landmark paper filling critical knowledge gaps about the potential to mitigate climate change through forest landscape restoration. Published in the scientific journal Carbon Balance and Management, the paper offers a globally comprehensive review of the potential carbon sequestration resulting from restoration. […]
Changing the Face of Clean Water Supply in Tanzania
October 17, 2019|post
It’s Friday morning in Hembeti, a rural village in eastern Tanzania, and Irene Lemelo is hard at work. Members of the local community update her on their progress digging trenches for water pipes, and Lemelo answers their questions about a gravity-fed water system now under construction. When she finished her engineering degree a year ago, […]
Winrock to Lead $8.5M USDA Project to Improve Food Safety & Boost U.S.-Philippine Trade
October 4, 2019|post
Manila, Philippines – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched a new Food for Progress project to strengthen sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulatory systems in the Philippines. Food for Progress is a USDA program that partners with developing countries and emerging democracies committed to introducing and expanding free enterprise in the agricultural sector. […]
In Mozambique, Lean Production Principles Help Farmers Get the Information They Need
October 2, 2019|post
Traditionally, small farmers in Mozambique prepare their ground with a short-handled hoe and plant by hand, a labor-intensive method that constrains the area of land each farmer can cultivate. But lean production principles are beginning to change that. In the Nacala Corridor of Mozambique, nearly 3,000 farmers have started to apply new agricultural technologies, including […]
Responding to the Call to Action
September 27, 2019|post
The Global Commission for Adaptation (GCA)’s “Call to Action” report released on September 19, 2019 is a highly anticipated urgent plea for investment and increased effort for adaptation ahead of the UN Climate week and the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties in Chile (COP25) in December. It is a tour […]
‘If you want to find a job, go to Bong Pheak.’
August 26, 2019|post
It took Chea Daneth, 22, only one week to find a receptionist job in Phnom Penh using Bong Pheak, an innovative internet-based employment service for low-skilled and unskilled factory, construction and hospitality workers. The service, created as part of USAID’s Cambodia Countering Trafficking-in-Persons program, implemented by Winrock, works by combining different technologies like the web, […]
SWP: Water Security Requires Inclusiveness
August 20, 2019|post
While all people need water in order to live and work, many do not have a say in decision-making about water. As laid out in six toolkits by the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), improving water security in a sustainable way requires the involvement and ownership of all people who influence or are affected by water […]
USDA Launches $1 Million Effort to Prevent Opioid Abuse in Five Counties
August 7, 2019|post
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. – August 7, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $998,834 to launch a proactive program to prevent opioid and substance abuse in north central and northeast Arkansas, a region that has high rates of opioid abuse and overdose deaths. The two-year Delta Understanding and Preventing Substance and Opioid Abuse […]
Winrock CEO Named to Export-Import Bank Advisory Committee
August 1, 2019|post
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 1, 2019 – Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson has been named to the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) 2019 Advisory Committee. He will be joined by senior leaders from Hewlett Packard, the AFL-CIO, and other luminaries from business, government, labor and finance. The Honorable Stevan Pearce, small business […]