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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture visits Arkansas to promote Winrock partnership and historic USDA investments to expand climate-smart agriculture
September 21, 2022|post
Breylan Portwood, a young Black farmer from Brinkley, Ark., seemed surprised when U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked if he would mind standing to be recognized. The secretary was in the middle of a panel discussion about a set of ambitious new USDA-funded climate-smart agriculture and markets projects soon to be started in Arkansas and […]
Building inclusive economic and community development ecosystems in the rural South
July 8, 2022|post
With the pandemic beginning to enshroud everything and everyplace, including her hometown of England, Ark., Vickie Woodard, retired music teacher, DIYer and aspiring entrepreneur, wondered how she would make it. “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” she says. “It wasn’t just COVID. It was George Floyd too.” Woodard is a Black woman in her fifties […]
Partnering with Vietnam on Environmental Protection, Pollution Reduction and Climate Action
May 17, 2022|post
Winrock’s collaboration with communities, businesses and government in Vietnam on environmental initiatives ranging from forest and water protection to policy development and pollution prevention stretches back two decades. Today, as Vietnam pursues ambitious new environmental goals including its recent public commitment to achieve net zero by 2050, continued and deepened engagement is more important than […]
Winrock and Cartwheel partnership will develop promising tech startups in Northwest Arkansas
December 9, 2021|post
A new business acceleration project funded by Walton Family Foundation creates a fast path from concept to commercial enterprise for software services firms with big potential December 9, 2021 ─ Winrock International and Cartwheel, an Arkansas-based startup studio, are collaborating on a $1.2 million project funded by the Walton Family Foundation to identify and validate […]
LEAF Coalition Announces $1 Billion Mobilized, Intent for REDD+ Transactions and New Participants
November 9, 2021|post
GLASGOW — November 8, 2021 – The Secretariat of the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), hosted by Winrock International, welcomes the series of announcements last week at COP26 by the LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance) Coalition. At the World Leaders’ Summit, LEAF announced it has mobilized $1 billion USD for forest country governments […]
Beating the Opioid Crisis: Transforming Stigma into Support for Prevention and Awareness
October 27, 2021|post
Arkansas has the second-highest opioid prescription rate in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s an alarming statistic: For every 100 people in The Natural State, physicians issued an average of 93.5 prescriptions of the highly-addictive, pain-relieving drugs in 2018, the latest year for which CDC data are available. […]
Building a Food-Secure, Climate-Resilient Future
October 20, 2021|post
It’s late August in Senegal: the weather has turned hot and wet. Even along the country’s Atlantic coast, daily highs hover around 90 degrees. Some of the national parks are closed. Tourists, along with migratory birds including Eurasian spoonbills, royal terns and greater flamingos have gone in search of milder weather further from the Equator. […]
Digital Inclusion: Boosting Broadband Connectivity Key to Renewal in Underserved U.S. Communities
October 4, 2021|post
Kevin Smith, the mayor of Helena-West Helena, Ark., sits at his desk in City Hall virtually disconnected from the rest of the world. If he needs to send an email, conduct research online, or just connect to a video conference, the city’s top elected official is forced to wait. He stares at his computer screen, […]
Working with U.S. Farmers and Local Partners to Protect Water and Soil Health
August 27, 2021|post
Wisconsin’s Kickapoo River has a complicated history. For thousands of years, Indigenous people managed this agroecological landscape for foraged food, crops, and game ── most recently the Ho-Chunk, Oceti Sakowin, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo people. When European settlers displaced these Indigenous peoples from much of their homeland, cut down trees, and began to plow the watershed’s […]
USAID Reducing Pollution
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The USAID Reducing Pollution activity is a five-year project that supports locally-driven initiatives that substantially reduce environmental pollution in Vietnam through a collective impact approach. The project will build the capacity of government, local nongovernmental organizations and private sector partners to prevent, mitigate and reduce environmental pollution, and increase the capacity of stakeholders to generate, […]