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  • How a young beekeeper's initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

    March 31, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    Bangs Circular practices sustainable beekeeping across eight communities, launching the Tiwai Honey Project, which builds hand-made beehives to support the native bee population. This practice allows beekeepers to closely monitor the bees’ well-being, thus leading to more honey production and reforestation efforts. So far, the group has trained more than 400 local beekeepers.

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  • Supporting Smallholder Women Farmers With Hand Tractors

    January 31, 2025 |

    Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Machhapuchhre

    A local government initiative has helped over 30 farmers to buy hand tractors in the last six years, with most of the beneficiaries being women. The hand tractors make farming more accessible and profitable for women.

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  • Fighting food insecurity with cooking classes

    December 06, 2024 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Winder, Georgia

    Wimberly’s Roots, a community garden and kitchen located in one of Georgia's food deserts, has increased access to healthy food through their monthly cooking lessons and partnership with the Boys and Girls Club.

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  • Campus food forest fosters community, offers number of opportunities through regenerative agriculture

    October 24, 2024 |

    Hilltop Views |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    A food forest uses a stack system in which all plants serve more than one purpose. At St. Edwards, the food forest is still young, but provides organic and locally produced food available for the entire community.

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  • Journalist Changes Rural Women's Story With Mushroom Farming

    April 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kabuga

    The Simbula Ventures Initiative unites women from various communities and teaches them how to grow mushrooms. The Initiative teaches the women how to grow mushrooms with agricultural waste, yielding a harvest in about 18-21 days. The women can then use the mushrooms to cook for their families or sell them to make a profit, providing them with a sense of economic empowerment.

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  • Farmers in rural Zimbabwe use a mobile financial management service application tool to monitor their business profits

    February 02, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    Biztrack is a mobile financial management application that helps farmers keep track of their business information and finances with ease. It records information on deals, sales, and general performance and has since been downloaded by more than 47 area farmers. The app also allows farmers to store the data in a safe, easily accessible place, as opposed to traditional bookkeeping.

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  • Union Health Plan Provides Much-Needed Safety Net

    December 15, 2022 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

    The Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan makes healthcare for union workers more affordable and accessible, providing workers with a much-needed safety net. The RFK plan covers about 3,000 members of the United Farm Workers — which consists of about 7,500 people, including spouses and children.

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  • As Temperatures Rise, Farms Are Sprouting in Alaska

    June 30, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska usually imports most of its food, but due to supply chain issues and climate change making the growing season longer, more small farms are popping up in The Last Frontier state. While the number of U.S. farms has decreased between 2007 and 2017, Alaska saw them increase by 44 percent. With their farming boom, residents are becoming more sustainable on their own crops rather than relying on global food systems.

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  • How India's Farmers Launched a Movement Against Modi's Farm Bills—and Won

    January 19, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: India

    Protests among farmers in India led to the repeal of farm laws – passed in the midst of COVID-19 shutdowns – that privileged corporate interests over the livelihood of farmers. In some states, farm union members blocked railroads, prevented the collection of toll taxes on roads, and blocked gas stations, shopping malls, and warehouses owned by corporations that benefited from the laws. Throughout the protests anywhere from 50,000 to 700,000 farmers camped out blocking strategic infrastructure. The sustained protests, and the widespread support among people, led the government to withdraw the laws.

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  • Fresh and Local

    December 01, 2021 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Slovakia, Zlatna na Ostrove

    Slovak farmers meet increasingly sophisticated demand by growing tomatoes with a flavor that can’t be imported. Greenhouse-grown tomatoes serve as a good example of how modern-day Slovak farmers are using the latest technology to bring produce to the market with taste rivaling that of home-grown.

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