Insights from Heifer projects and our work with partners to catalyze local solutions for global impact.
By Aimée Knight | July 14, 2021
With support from Heifer’s East Africa Youth Inclusion Project, 25-year-old Mpiima Muhammed went from school dropout to a successful agri-entrepreneur. This World Youth Skills Day we honor his and the global youth’s resilience in the face of hardships.
With every harvest, smallholder farmers are securing a tomorrow where hunger is a thing of the past.
Meet Heifer’s eco-champions, smallholder farmers collectively driving sustainable change from Senegal’s drylands to Mexico’s seed sanctuaries.
Harnessing the power of collaboration, these women are breaking new ground, sharing their wisdom and resources to cultivate a future of mutual prosperity.
For 80 years, local visionaries have been the heartbeat of Heifer’s mission, transforming communities and crafting sustainable futures.
By Jason Woods | May 13, 2021
While companies, traders and intermediaries extract profit from cardamom, producers struggle to get by. Heifer Guatemala’s Green Business Belt Program is changing this reality, closing the living income gap for farmers through full participation in the supply chain.
By Aimée Knight | April 30, 2021
Thanks to the leadership of Donna Kilpatrick, Heifer Ranch became a Savory Hub in Arkansas – a teaching center on regenerative agriculture, whose mission is to equip farmers and ranchers with the knowledge to rehabilitate grassland ecosystems at scale.
By Heifer International | March 31, 2021
By Jason Woods | March 3, 2021
In Kopuwa, Nepal, many women depend on their husbands for income. The women of Bihani Dairy cooperative are joining forces to make sure that they, and other women in their communities have opportunities to earn income of their own.
By Bethany Ivie | February 5, 2021
By Bethany Ivie | January 22, 2021
In San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, Indigenous Maya women are reclaiming the age-old art of handcrafting carmine, perhaps the most vibrant natural red dye in existence, and through the support of Heifer International Guatemala, they’re using that skill to boost their own small businesses.
By Jason Woods | January 8, 2021
There was no way for small-scale farmers in Ecuador to anticipate the COVID-19 pandemic more than a year ago when they started diversifying the products they grew and mapping efficient paths to get them to hungry urban markets. But when the coronavirus hit the South American nation hard, these farmers found themselves well-prepared to keep homebound customers fed.
By Jason Woods | December 23, 2020
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