Posts by Grow Ahead
Webinar March 12 – Where Women Lead, Forests Thrive
A webinar with Grow Ahead discussing the importance of nature based climate solutions like agroforestry and regenerative, organic agriculture and ways that your business can reach it’s sustainability goals by partnering with community-led agroforestry projects that benefit people and the planet.
Read MoreBlack Farmers in America: A Legacy of Hardship and Resilience
This Black History Month, we’re sharing the stories of two Black farmers that paved the way for modern organic and regenerative agriculture. Learning about Black history is only the beginning, so check out this blog for more ways to help create a fairer future.
Read MoreFarmer-to-Farmer Exchange and Reforestation in Colombia
Campaign Goal: $10,000
Country: Colombia
Grow Ahead teamed up with Association for Cooperativa del Sur del Cauca (COSURCA) and Cooperative Coffees to expand agroecological capacities and community adaptability practices to climate change in Macizo and Sur del Cauca, Colombia.
Funded March 2023
Read MoreEco-shipping with Grow Ahead
Is this the same as carbon offsetting? Grow Ahead uses the term “eco-shipping” to distinguish our projects from conventional tree planting projects that claim to provide carbon offsets. Carbon offsetting broadly refers to reducing greenhouse gas emissions or the act of storing carbon (e.g., through land restoration or the planting of trees), in order to…
Read MoreObserving Fair Trade Month: why it means not taking the short-cuts
October marks National Fair Trade Month in the United States: a month dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of fair trade, and the promotion of buying and using socially and commercially responsible products. Despite the term’s ubiquity, its full meaning still eludes most of us, with the numerous fair trade entities adding to the confusion. What makes Fair Trade so complicated, and what does Fair Trade mean to Grow Ahead?
Read MoreAgroforestry, Cocoa, and what it means for farmers in Ghana
We can find cocoa in cuisines and traditions around the world. In spite of — or perhaps because of — cocoa’s widespread popularity as an ingredient and commodity, traditional cocoa farming is built on colonial models of extraction that exploit the land, farmers, and farm workers.
Read MoreGrow Ahead Launches Crowdfunding Campaign For Micro-Loans to Fund Small-Scale Coffee Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico
Grow Ahead launchs a new campaign to crowdfund $10,000 in micro-loans for farmer-led savings and credit fund “FondoMás,” a project of Mexican non-profit Impacto Café, to support ten smallholder coffee producers diversify into organic honey production in Chiapas, Mexico.
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International Insights: Hussen Ahmed Turns Agrowastes from the Flower Industry into Gold in Ethiopia
We talked to Hussen Ahmed of Soil & More Ethiopia about recycling waste from the flower industry and turning it into compost, which he provides to smallholder farmers to help regenerate their land. For Hussen, soil building with compost was an obvious solution to recycle green waste and regenerate land in a country plagued by drought and desertification.
Read MoreWebinar | La Via Campesina (LVC), Campesino a Campesino, and the Latin American Institute of Agroecology (IALA) Guarani
Join us for a webinar with La Via Campesina’s Peter Rosset to talk about the history of the Campesino a Campesino movment, LVC’s IALA program and the manifestation of agroecology.
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