Posts by Alex Groome
Grow 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.
Read MoreScholarships for Women Farm Leaders in Honduras
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.
Read MoreA Farmer-Led Vision for a New Food System in Paraguay
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.
Read MorePromoting Conservation Agriculture Among Rural Farmers in Ghana
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.
Read MorePromoting Conservation Agriculture in Ghana
Ghana
$3,025 raised
1,500 farmers
Ended September 1, 2018
Holistic Land Management Training – Chisuma, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
$3,636 raised
150 households
Ended September 1, 2018
Micro-Loans for Beekeeping for Small-Scale Coffee Farmers in Chiapas
Campaign Goal: $10,000
Country: Mexico
Support ten smallholder coffee producers in Chiapas diversify into organic honey by starting their own or growing their beekeeping business in order to help farmers diversify production, improving livelihood and income.
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