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From Garbage to Garden
Sometimes when Samson Aberra is working in the garden, planting seedlings or replenishing his nursery, onlookers gather to watch him toil. What they don’t know is that Samson Aberra is not “toiling” —...
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Urban Gardeners Defy the Desert in Northern Ethiopia
Water is scarce in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. There is little difference between the dry and wet seasons, common in the tropics and the rest of Ethiopia. Usually by January, Tigray’s many...
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Ethiopian Group Garden Wins Support from City and Community
Gohe Group Garden distributes over 40,000 seedlings for free to promote home gardens and win the hearts and minds of the community. After several years of considerable success with animal husbandry,...
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A Mother’s Dream
Genet dreams of creating a cooperative with her Group Garden and diversifying the agriculture portfolio by adding animals and a possible dairy farm. “I don’t want my life to happen to my children. I...
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A Dose of Gardening as the New Social Medicine
When Meaza Birhanu, 39, learned she was HIV positive seven years ago, she was already bed ridden surviving on food donations from the World Food Program. The death of her husband prompted her to get...
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Somaliland Farmers Learn Math, Reading, and Agricultural Skills
Ferhan, 33, was still a young man when he dropped out of school to help his father in the family’s fields. He quit the third grade and instead of learning to read and write, he learned to plow and...
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Development Aid Programs Target Small Scale Farmers to Ramp up Production in...
Before Liberia’s civil war, Augustine Tamba’s farm had a water pump, a sprinkler system, and a reliable well. Neighbors worked for Tamba to grow rice, cassava, corn and vegetables in the lowland farm...
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The Revival of the Grain Coast: Organic Farming in Liberia
Liberia is one of Africa’s poorest nations steeped in a domestic food crisis. This is how one man aims to increase food safety and food security without raising the price. Read more: The Revival of...
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Student Farmers in Liberia Get Back to the Soil and Into the Classroom
There was a time before Liberia’s civil wars when agriculture was an integral part of the education system. Ten years after the end of the wars, the majority of Liberians live in poverty, depend on...
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Small Amounts of Financing Earn Big Rewards for Vegetable Farmers
By the time they were planting, the good seeds were gone. The problem is that the other farmers didn’t have money to buy the good seeds when they were available. Sometimes there’s no money. A small...
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One Man’s Revolution to Change Farming in Liberia – Organic, Restorative,...
William Tolbert, a Liberian citizen educated in the US, was inspired by the organic movement here and moved back to his home country in 2010 to implement organic farming techniques. He exemplifies the...
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Ebola Challenges the Success Achieved in Liberia’s Rice Sector
The Ebola outbreak - which has led to rising food prices and potential food shortages - reinforces the need for self-sufficiency and food security in times of crisis. Liberia has just begun to...
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Africa’s Top Chickpea Producer Brings First Industrial Processing Machine...
Ethiopian food processor and exporter Agro Prom has made the first step in changing the course of Ethiopian chickpea history and established the country’s first industrial chickpea processing and...
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Expanding Organic in Lebanon
For several years, Fady Daw has studied how foreign products beat out local products on Lebanon’s high-end, organic foods market. He suspected that much of it had to do with packaging. So he adopted a...
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Ancient Grains, Modern Methods in Lebanon
USAID and partners are increasing the quality and competitiveness of Lebanese freekeh for Middle Eastern foodies. Read more: Ancient Grains, Modern Methods in Lebanon
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The Apple of Lebanon’s Eye
Liban Village was founded in 1992 as a farmer cooperative and grew to a small company that employs more than 50 people each year. Today, Liban Village works across the apple value chain, from...
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The Weight of Water
In Columbia's strategically located region Montes de Maria, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) roamed the countryside and destroyed entire irrigation systems, stole kilometers of...
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The Cloud with a Silver Lining
In October 2016, two Tolima coffee lots ended up in the top five at a country-wide coffee cupping festival, including first place, surprising judges and the public. The victory and recognition comes...
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An Arhuaco Solution to Man’s Disequilibrium
Osvaldo and I were talking about the ole bees, bouncing around in the back of a truck that was heading down a path, which would have been a nice stroll on foot. I told him about beekeepers in Ethiopia...
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The Sweetest Grapes Hang the Highest
The Phoenicians are credited with many things, but delivering the gift of wine to the shores of southern Europe is something for which mankind will always be thankful. Like the modern-day Lebanese,...
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