Events

Heifer International Events welcome outside experts in agriculture and international development for virtual fireside-style chats. Hosted by President and CEO Surita Sandosham and other Heifer leaders, the conversations explore the challenges facing our food and farming systems.

Recorded Live Chats

Data & AI: How Diverse Teams Drive Innovation

While AI holds immense promise for improving productivity, resilience and incomes worldwide, success depends on overcoming the unique challenges of data collection, contextualization, and usability within smallholder farming communities.
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Lessons from Latin America: How Can Smallholder Agroforestry Boost Climate Resilience?

Heifer International hosts a roundtable discussion on smallholder-led interventions building climate resilience in Latin America, including a climate adaptation equivalency index and the role of participatory action research in driving development gains.

Strength in Numbers: Can Cooperatives Accelerate SDG Progress for Smallholder Farmers?

Heifer International hosts an expert roundtable for a discussion on how farmer-run cooperatives across the Global South can catalyze sustainable development, amplify women’s voices in agriculture and secure prosperous livelihoods for farming families.

Financial Inclusion for Smallholders Farmers: Lessons Learned, Challenges and Opportunities

Heifer International hosts experts for a discussion on how key stakeholders can unlock access to affordable, appropriate sources of financing for smallholder farming households.

Growing a Better World: Livestock and Regenerative Agriculture

Donna Kilpatrick, Heifer Ranch Manager and Land Steward, and Nicolette Hahn Niman, rancher, attorney and author of Defending Beef, have a conversation about food, farming and climate change.

Investing in Smallholder Farmers for the Future of Africa’s Agriculture: Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Event

Adesuwa Ifedi, Heifer International Senior Vice President of Africa Programs, Jehiel Oliver, Founder and CEO of Hello Tractor, and Samson Odera, a tractor owner who works with Hello Tractor, met for a Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Day event.

Breaking Barriers through Women's Cooperatives in Nepal

Neena Joshi, Heifer International Senior Director of Asia Programs for Cooperative Development, and Dr. Laurie Miller, child nutrition expert and Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine discuss women’s cooperatives in Nepal.

Understanding Regenerative Agriculture

Donna Kilpatrick, Heifer Ranch Manager and Land Steward for Heifer USA, explains what regenerative agriculture is and how it differs from other climate friendly terms.

Tackling Climate Change through Regenerative Agriculture

Heifer USA’s Heifer Ranch Manager and Land Steward, Donna Kilpatrick, and the Savory Institute’s Global Network Coordinator, Abbey Smith, discuss the potential for scaling up regenerative agriculture to reverse climate change.

Cows and the Planet: Small-Scale Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Dr. Jude Capper, livestock sustainability expert and Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO of Heifer International discuss the role of small-scale animal agriculture in tackling climate change.