Food & Water

Why is Electricity Important in Agriculture?
Three workers tend to a refrigerated tank at a milk collection center.

Food & Water

Why is Electricity Important in Agriculture?

Access to electricity touches almost all aspects of farmers' lives and livelihoods — from irrigation to harvesting to keeping produce fresh...

The High Cost of the High Cost of Food
Hands holding a small pile of soybeans in Uganda.

Food & Water

The High Cost of the High Cost of Food

Rising food prices are driving global hunger up at an alarming scale, hitting the world's most vulnerable populations the hardest.

Bangladesh Farmers Transform Local Markets
Two hands exchange money.

Food & Water

Bangladesh Farmers Transform Local Markets

With Heifer's support, the Akota Women's Cooperative built and began operating an aggregation center — a marketplace for bulk goods, where...

Kamala Makes a Living With Mulberry
A Nepali woman holds a bunch of fodder leaves in her fodder field.

Animals

Kamala Makes a Living With Mulberry

Nourished families depend on nourished farms. In southwestern Nepal, one woman’s mulberry fodder business is keeping livestock healthy and...

What is a Smallholder Farmer?
A woman inspects a goat in a field in India.

Food & Water

What is a Smallholder Farmer?

Heifer believes ending poverty and hunger begins with agriculture, and smallholder farmers are at the heart of this effort. But what exactly is a...

Tomato, Tomato
A close up shot of green tomatoes on the vine.

Food & Water

Tomato, Tomato

Through videos and guidebooks, Heifer USA is training farmers to successfully cultivate and manage crops, including organic tomatoes — a...

What is a Value Chain? And Why You Should Care.
A close up of a young farmer conducting bookkeeping.

Food & Water

What is a Value Chain? And Why You Should Care.

A strong, equitable value chain can help vulnerable people provide nutritious food for their families and communities while earning a fair wage for...

What is a Cooperative?
Two smiling Cambodian women stand in a field, holding bundles of rice.

Food & Water

What is a Cooperative?

Agricultural cooperatives enable individual farmers to operate as a collective agribusiness, driven by values of solidarity and reciprocity....

From Kenya to Bangladesh: 5 Ways Heifer Builds Strong Market Systems
A close up shot shows two hands exchanging bills.

Food & Water

From Kenya to Bangladesh: 5 Ways Heifer Builds Strong Market Systems

Heifer invests in infrastructure across our project areas to build strong market systems, giving farmers the purchasing power to keep nutritious...

4 Ways Heifer is Helping End World Hunger
A young girl holding a glass of milk and looking at her mother sitting next to her.

Food & Water

4 Ways Heifer is Helping End World Hunger

Nearly 811 million people go to bed hungry each night. Chronic hunger is exacerbated by poverty, lack of nutrition education and social barriers....