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Insights from Heifer projects and our work with partners to catalyze local solutions for global impact.

Fighting Prejudice: Rural Indian Women Unite
Women lighting candles and passing on the flame during a training session in a village.

Equality

Fighting Prejudice: Rural Indian Women Unite

Where bias holds them back from income, independence and opportunity, women like Chhoti Kumari are banding together and blazing a new trail.

Seeding a Productive Future for Rwandan Youth
A young woman stands at the front desk of a veterinary shop in Rwanda.

Work & Income

Seeding a Productive Future for Rwandan Youth

In a region with a high youth population and a heavy reliance on agriculture, Heifer participants are in the business of opportunity — supporting...

A Celebration of Cooperatives Building a Better World
Five women laugh together in a field in Nepal.

Announcements

A Celebration of Cooperatives Building a Better World

In honor of International Day of Cooperatives, we’re proud to share the stories of co-op leaders fighting for a more prosperous tomorrow, united...

Why are Women Important in Farming?
A woman tends to crops in Kenya.

Equality

Why are Women Important in Farming?

Every day, women farmers make invaluable contributions to agriculture — and with support to overcome the unique challenges they face, they are...

Why Impact Investors Should Bet on Agriculture
A man in Rwanda harvests fruit from a tree.

Insights & Analysis

Why Impact Investors Should Bet on Agriculture

Agribusinesses in Africa are uniquely positioned to serve the growing food market — and provide opportunities for investors to do well by doing...

Soilless Nursery: Sowing Seeds of Change for Smallholder Farmers
A women tending to her saplings placed in several trays in a self-constructed greenhouse in a village in Bihar, India.

Climate

Soilless Nursery: Sowing Seeds of Change for Smallholder Farmers

Isarat is a farmer, but she’s also an entrepreneur who’s using her knowledge to grow a soilless nursery to improve crop yields, reduce resource...

Bangladesh Farmers Transform Local Markets
Two hands exchange money.

Food & Water

Bangladesh Farmers Transform Local Markets

With Heifer's support, the Akota Women's Cooperative built and began operating an aggregation center — a marketplace for bulk goods, where...

Kamala Makes a Living With Mulberry
A Nepali woman holds a bunch of fodder leaves in her fodder field.

Animals

Kamala Makes a Living With Mulberry

Nourished families depend on nourished farms. In southwestern Nepal, one woman’s mulberry fodder business is keeping livestock healthy and...