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Climate Change Adaptation in Cambodia

Khel Khem points to the high-water mark from record floods that washed
out fish farms across Cambodia. Her pond, which survived, is behind her.

With the help of HARVEST climate change adaptation techniques, fish farmers were able to save their ponds from record floods.

Transforming Agriculture through Leadership in Ethiopia

Adamu Abiye, one of 90 Ethiopian "Agents for Change" trained by Fintrac last year, says the leadership training he received taught him to focus on results rather than processes.

By providing management, leadership, and technical training on topics such as strategic thinking and planning, and creating a vision for change, CIAFS empowers thought leaders to catalyze change, drive future growth, and reduce poverty.

Diversified Diets Improve Childhood Nutrition in Honduras

Angela Martinez is serving her daughter healthy and tasty food made with ingredients from her home garden.

As part of its commitment to improving health, nutrition, and food security in Honduras, ACCESO is working with rural families to promote new techniques for healthy food preparation and home garden production.

Natural Resource Management Improves Sustainable Farming in Kenya

Youth farmer William Mugo examines his ornis flowers. Fintrac has helped William increase the quantity and quality of his flowers, and linked him to Wilmar Agro, a major flower exporter, so that he has a reliable market and stable source of income.

KHCP is teaching farmers simple natural resource management techniques that not only help conserve the environment, but also help improve their incomes.

Productive Farm Helps Reunite Nepali Family

By employing good agricultural practices and learning to see farming as a business, Sushmita Chaudhary is earning seven times what she did previously.

Thanks to support and training from NFRP, one farming family is seeing dramatic increases in their yields and incomes, eliminating the need for family member to emigrate to India in search of work.

Growing to New Heights with Low-Cost Greenhouses in Tanzania

Wlyhard Lymo displays tomatoes grown in his greenhouse that are now being sold to high end lodges in northern Tanzania.

With the combination of low-cost greenhouses and simple technologies, TAPP is helping transform subsistence farmers into full scale commercial farmers.

New Technologies Transform Smallholder Farming in Zimbabwe

Mrs. Dhlakama proudly shows off the new water pump her family purchased with their increased income. The water pump can transform the way the family farms.

STAMP, with support from a private-sector partner, is working to increase the incomes of table potato growers by providing quality inputs, agronomic training, and access to reliable markets.

AgriTrade Loan Increase Trade Activity in Zimbabwe

Sizamile Gumbo buys scarce food crops from smallholder farmers in rural areas for sale in her hometown of Bulawayo.

A Zim-AIED supported AgriTrade loan to one local businesswoman is having far-reaching effects on smallholder farmers in the Midlands Province.