Alex Groome, Author at Grow Ahead

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.

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.

We are pleased to welcome five new board members, from a diversity of sectors, to our team! These passionate individuals will help us on our mission to support small-scale family farming communities tackle climate change for the next two years.

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.

Campaign Goal: $5,000

Country: Honduras

Women consistently have less access to resources, including education. Sponsor education on regenerative organic agriculture for 10 women farmers from the Café COMSA.

Grow Ahead has launched a campaign to support the development of an agroecology center in Paraguay in partnership with La Via Campesina. We are raising $20,000 to train dozens of farmers, including 37 agroecology university students, and support the establishment of an aquaculture training program and other agroecological activities.

The Centre for No-Till Agriculture (CNTA) shares an update on the Grow Ahead project that was crowdfunded earlier this year. Since the project was funded, the CNTA team has begun the one-year hands on training process with 41 farmers.