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Insight Series: Bouncing Back During Crisis in Bangladesh
Rita Bromo, Farmer Business Facilitator for the Missing Middle Initiative, and Obydul Haque, General Secretary of the Sara Bangla Krishak Society, give their insight on working with GAFSP. They explain how the support and ownership of the funding allowed the network to bounce back during crises.
Rwanda’s Greenhouses Bring Growth
Despite strong economic growth and falling poverty levels, Rwanda faces significant challenges in meeting food demands and food security. Farmer and father, Jean-Paul Kubwimana, defied these challenges, increasing his income by 15 times. Driving past a greenhouse full of healthy tomatoes, he decided to investigate how greenhouse tomatoes could benefit his family.
Three Ways ڰis Leveling the Playing Field on Gender Equality
This International Women’s Day, we celebrate women around the world and gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow, towards progress and a just, more equal world.
New Seeds for Sustainability
Farmer groups in Bangladesh adapt to climate change with new, high-quality seeds. We aimed to open a new window of technology for farmers, but we wanted to adopt a bottom-up approach. Read the full story to learn more.
New Farming “Ecosystem” in Uganda Empowers Women Smallholders
For Grainpulse in Uganda, Reaching Women is Critical to Long-Term Growth.
Changing Lives 2022 Edition
Insights into how investments made possible by the ڰPrivate Sector Window help change the lives of farmers worldwide. Edition 8 | January 2022
How smallholder farmers bounced back during the health crisis
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, ڰwas able to respond quickly and flexibly to the emerging crisis – providing much needed financing that allowed farmers to design and implement the interventions which worked best for them.
Insight Series: View from Bhutan
Sangay Dorji is a Senior Agriculture Extension Supervisor with Karmaling Gewog, or community block, with the government of Bhutan. He has been working with the GAFSP-supported FSAPP project, which aims to increase agricultural productivity and enhance market linkages among a target of 52,000 poor people.
Cultivating a Small-Scale Farming Approach to Improve Food Security
When provided with the right tools and resources, small-scale food producers can respond with remarkable speed and flexibility in times of crisis – a spike in conflict worldwide and the COVID-19 crisis have shown that. Five years after successfully testing the MMI, ڰis now funding small-scale food producers directly through the producer organizations that represent them.
Mali's Young Entrepreneurs Get a Fresh Start
The GAFSP-funded Inclusion of Rural Youth in Poultry and Aquaculture Value Chains in Mali project works with CNOP in Mali to support rural youth in creating income-generating activities that foster food and nutrition security. The young entrepreneurs have been provided with technical training, including how to set up an organization, and how to manage the finances for poultry and fish farming value-chains.
Bringing Water back to Honduras’ Dry Corridor
Since 2017, across 25 municipalities of the Dry Corridor, the US$30 GAFSP-supported project has been implemented to bring food and nutrition security to Honduras’ driest areas, reaching more than 12,000 households through the installation of water irrigation technology and climate-resilient agriculture, enabling farmers to provide more nutritious foods for their families as well as for the market.
Building Knowledge to Tap Senegal’s Growing Banana Market
Since bananas are in great demand in Senegal’s cities, many farmers struggle to make ends meet when they cannot be harvested. There is a name for the season during which bananas can’t be harvested: the ‘soudure’. During these times, some households may not be able to afford food, or consume less due to lack of resources.