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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 […]

Girl Power in Zambia

November 12, 2019|post

Like many girls in Mphunda Village, Zambia, 17-year-old Rabecca Mtonga dropped out of school at the age of 11. With no prospects for reentering school or getting vocational training, she married Bruno Nyirongo at age 15 and now has a young son. Despite dropping out of school, Mtonga still dreamed of running her own business […]

Chinyere Aniedu

November 11, 2019|post

As a young woman, Chinyere Aniedu rebelled against the status quo, postponing marriage until the age of 27 and committing herself to higher education. Today, she is outspoken on issues of gender equality. Among her achievements, she rallied her female peers at the Institute to demand the same compensation as men, who were paid twice […]

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. […]