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Embracing Innovation: How Heifer Farmers Are Harnessing Tech
Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts Weigh in on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem
The health and safety of livestock impacts the economic and nutritional security of smallholder farmers. Heifer experts share four simple farm and...
Community Chicken Vaccinator Earns Income, Hatches Hope in India
A community vaccinator is an essential animal healthcare worker who provides low-cost chicken vaccines and deworming treatments to poultry farmers....
What is a Cooperative?
Agricultural cooperatives enable individual farmers to operate as a collective agribusiness, driven by values of solidarity and reciprocity....
Celebrating the Power of Partnership
As we close this chapter and embrace the new year, we're celebrating some of the partners who support our mission to end hunger and poverty in a...
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...
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
Regenerative agriculture means stewarding the land to create a balanced ecosystem in which the cycles of nature work symbiotically and freely.
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An Ambitious Mother Feeds Her Family, Fulfills New Dreams
With support from Heifer International, Tor Pon Louk has transformed from a struggling farmer into a successful business owner and leader for her...
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....
No More Praying for Rain: Well Brings Water to Nepal’s Waterless
Like many smallholder farmers in Nepal, Tara Devi Mahato depended on unreliable rainfall to irrigate her crops. Now, thanks to Heifer Nepal and a...
This Season of Thanks, We’re Grateful for Our Farmers
The world’s smallholder farmers are at the heart of building a sustainable food system. We’re celebrating those from Honduras to Uganda who are...
Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women In Bihar, India
Up against deep caste and patriarchal prejudices, women farmers in the Indian state of Bihar are changing the face of their participation in...
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Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts Weigh in on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem
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Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts Weigh in on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem
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Tihar Festival in Nepal: Days of Dogs, Deities and Income
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Tihar Festival in Nepal: Days of Dogs, Deities and Income
Heifer Ranch Achieves Regenerative Agriculture Milestone
Thanks to the leadership of Donna Kilpatrick, Heifer Ranch became a Savory Hub in Arkansas – a teaching center on regenerative agriculture, whose...
One Year After Hurricanes Battered Honduras, a Resilient Beekeeper Rebuilds
One year ago, two hurricanes battered Honduras, decimating the agricultural assets many Heifer Honduras farmers depended on for income. That was...
Tihar Festival in Nepal: Days of Dogs, Deities and Income
Tihar festival in Nepal honors Hindu gods with days of dancing, feasts and animal worship. But it’s also the moment toward which rural farmers...