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  • As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

    Cultivating excelsa—a rare, climate-resistant coffee bean species—is helping farmers in South Sudan not only adapt to climate change, but also bolster economic opportunities.

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  • Indian Women Dry Fish With the Power of the Sun, in the Palms of Their Hands

    Solar-powered dryers are enabling women in India to produce and sell dried fish at markets in a manner that is healthier for them and the environment. It's also proving economically profitable.

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  • Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

    Since 2015, the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, with support by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers transfer skills and opportunities to a new generation. Thus far, slmost 70 apprentices have graduated from the program as independent journeyworkers, and 59 farmer-apprentice pairs are currently active across the country.

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  • Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

    Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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  • Internet saca del aislamiento y empodera a comunidades del Gran Chaco Americano

    Desde el 2013, el proyecto Nanum ha implementado un modelo que proporciona conectividad a través de 46 centros locales con acceso a Internet, empoderando a poblaciones indígenas, criollas y rurales. Marca un cambio significativo en la vida de más de 129 comunidades de Argentina, Paraguay y Bolivia, que hasta entonces permanecían aisladas.

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  • How the Navajo Nation is using mutual aid to connect families to the electric grid

    Mutual aid program Light Up Navajo is helping families get connected to the power grid through volunteer workers and private and federal funding. Over the past five years, crews have built miles of powerlines across the reservation, powering nearly 850 households, many of whom are receiving power for the first time.

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  • Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade

    In Rwanda, a fleet of simple, efficient trucks is helping farmers get their harvest to market before the goods spoil. For one farmer renting space in one of the trucks, the improved market access enabled them to go from selling 400 to 4,000 kilograms of produce a week.

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  • Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

    The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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  • Community-Led School Brings Education and Hope to Rural Uganda

    Tat Sat Kasasa Secondary School (TaSKA) is making education more accessible, affordable and inclusive for youth in rural communities, particularly young girls. As of March, TaSKA serves 120 students, 64 of which are girls. Along with education, the school also provides meals, medical care, extracurriculars and access to financial services to create a holistic educational experience.

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  • A Year After Historic Civil Rights Settlement, Alabama Slowly Bringing Sanitation Equity to Rural Black Communities

    The nonprofit Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Projects is installing advanced, three-stage wastewater filtration systems at homes in Lowndes County, Alabama, where effective wastewater treatment options are urgently needed. The nonprofit installs and maintains the systems for $20 per month, using two major federal grants to cover the upfront costs.

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