Food
Quick Facts About Food Waste
Food loss and waste is a global challenge with enormous economic, environmental and health consequences. Read on to learn more about this issue and...
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
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
With Heifer's support, the Akota Women's Cooperative built and began operating an aggregation center — a marketplace for bulk goods, where...
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
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 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?
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
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
Nearly 811 million people go to bed hungry each night. Chronic hunger is exacerbated by poverty, lack of nutrition education and social barriers....