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

The Kenyan Woman Changing Young Farmers' Futures
A headshot of Kenyan woman Victorine Atieno Owino.

Equality

The Kenyan Woman Changing Young Farmers' Futures

With Heifer’s support, Victorine Owino has transformed the cooperative she manages into a thriving business hub, connecting local poultry farmers...

What is a Value Chain? And Why You Should Care.
A close up of a young farmer conducting bookkeeping.

Food & Water

What is a Value Chain? And Why You Should Care.

A strong, equitable value chain can help vulnerable people provide nutritious food for their families and communities while earning a fair wage for...

Seeds of Success: A Zambian Mother Lifts Up Her Community
A smiling woman wearing a purple headscarf and floral dress admires her new bicycle.

Equality

Seeds of Success: A Zambian Mother Lifts Up Her Community

Betty Chisamu received training and support from Heifer Zambia in the form of high-quality seeds and a new bicycle. With her newfound knowledge,...

How Heifer Supports Farmers Through Education
Two men standing together and reading a poster on chicken management practices.

Announcements

How Heifer Supports Farmers Through Education

On this International Day of Education we recognize the important role that education plays in improving the lives and livelihoods of farmers...

Embracing Innovation: How Heifer Farmers Are Harnessing Tech
A Kenyan woman, standing in front of a community bank, holds up and smiles at her mobile phone.

Work & Income

Embracing Innovation: How Heifer Farmers Are Harnessing Tech

In Heifer’s project areas, farmers are using tech — both cutting edge and commonplace — to hone their production, grow their incomes and lift...

Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem
A female farmer feeding pigs in a sty.

Animals

Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem

The health and safety of livestock impacts the economic and nutritional security of smallholder farmers. Heifer experts share four simple farm and...

What is a Cooperative?
Two smiling Cambodian women stand in a field, holding bundles of rice.

Food & Water

What is a Cooperative?

Agricultural cooperatives enable individual farmers to operate as a collective agribusiness, driven by values of solidarity and reciprocity....

Celebrating the Power of Partnership
Seven Kenyan woman stand arm-in-arm, smiling and facing the camera.

Announcements

Celebrating the Power of Partnership

As we close this chapter and embrace the new year, we're celebrating some of the partners who support our mission to end hunger and poverty in a...