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Guatemalan Spice Farmers Forge Path to Fair Pay
While companies, traders and intermediaries extract profit from cardamom, producers struggle to get by. Heifer Guatemala's Green Business Belt...
Announcing the Champions of the Inaugural AYuTe Africa Challenge
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu and Jehiel Oliver won Heifer International's AYuTe Africa Challenge, an annual competition that awards cash grants to young...
Aftershocks in Haiti: Recovery Underway Despite Cracks in the System
As strong aftershocks from the Haiti earthquake continue, Heifer has sourced and begun distributing 1,600 tarps to those hardest hit.
Wheeling Through the Pandemic: 5 Ways Access to Transport Helps Heifer Farmers
The COVID-19 lockdowns have brought supply chains to a virtual standstill across the globe, threatening food production and distribution systems....
The Earthquake in Haiti: Intense Devastation, Compounding Fragility Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The 7.2-magnitude earthquake on August 14th has left the people of Haiti’s southwestern region, which was hardest hit by the quake, grieving.
This World Youth Skills Day, We Celebrate a Young Ugandan Farmer
With support from Heifer’s East Africa Youth Inclusion Project, 25-year-old Mpiima Muhammed went from school dropout to a successful...
6 Ways Heifer India Promotes Biosecurity
Amid a national medicine shortage, Heifer India farmers are turning to local, low-cost alternatives to keep themselves and their flocks disease-free.
Stronger Together: Mexican Women Form Poultry Cooperative, Lower Collective Costs
In Oaxaca, Mexico, five tenacious poultry farming women realized they could increase sales and decrease costs if they banded together. So, with...
Food Security Despite the Pandemic: The Benefits of a Kitchen Garden in Odisha, India
In Odisha, India, Budhini Hansda and her husband tend to a kitchen garden – a source of nutritious food and much-needed income. And as...
Living Her Dream: Soap Business Success Financially Empowers Woman in Rural Ghana
For most women in rural Ghana, financial empowerment remains an elusive reality. This was certainly the case for Rose Yeboah, until she joined the...