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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.