Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Grow Ahead Week of Action Recap: Fully Funding Farmer Success in Mexico
Grow Ahead Week of Action was a success, thanks to you! Together, we fully funded the Seed Saving and Reforestation Project in Mexico, planting 25,000 trees over 620 acres to restore degraded lands and support farmers’ resilience. From inspiring webinars to reaching new audiences, this week highlighted the power of collective action for small-scale farmers and climate resilience. Discover how your support made an impact and what’s next for Grow Ahead in 2025!
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 MoreInternational Coffee Day: Coffee, Climate Change & Small-Scale Farmers
This International Coffee Day we are focusing on one of the biggest challenges to coffee: climate change. Climate change is proving to be catastrophic for coffee growers, cutting the global area suitable for coffee growth in half. Due to habitat shifting & alteration, droughts and temperature extremes, Arabica coffee has been added to the IUCN…
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