Highlights from the Field

In Zimbabwe, Fintrac is working with smallholder farmers to introduce good agricultural practices, and to link them to input suppliers, credit providers, and new buyers. Here, a banana farmer shows off her healthy crop. By increasing yield and quality, farmers like this woman are able to achieve transformational income growth.

Fintrac is transforming the Ethiopian agriculture sector and improving food security by training and inspiring Ethiopian policymakers, entrepreneurs, and managers. Here, agents of change engage in a strategic planning activity as part of a leadership training to empower them to catalyze change, drive future growth, and reduce poverty.

As part of Fintrac's nutrition and hygiene work in Nepal, babies' weight and height are regularly monitored to ensure optimal childhood nutrition. Fintrac is currently working with 2,259 households on a one-year nutrition and hygiene training program, which also includes the provision of a 333 square-meter home garden for each family.

In Honduras, Fintrac is working with mothers of young children, teaching them to incorporate nutrient-rich vegetables grown in their own gardens into their children's food. Thanks to these types of interventions, program participants are reporting healthier and better-nourished children.

Fintrac is working with the Bashai Primary School in Tanzania to train students on the benefits of farming. The program is helping the school create a kitchen garden to grow vegetables for a lunch program. Here, a student learns how to make compost pit.

In Cambodia, Fintrac is working with smallholder growers to improve agricultural production and natural resource management. Rice is an important food security crop in the country, and Fintrac agronomists are training rural farmers to better grow and manage the crop.

Adding value to crops is one way Fintrac helps jump start the agriculture sector in developing countries. Our program in Kenya is working with the St. Cecilia's women's group, teaching them how to make butternut squash chips using a solar dryer.