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

Wheeling Through the Pandemic: 5 Ways Access to Transport Helps Heifer Farmers
Member of the La Changa Collective peddling through the city of Quito to deliver fresh farm produce to customers' doorstep.

Announcements

Wheeling Through the Pandemic: 5 Ways Access to Transport Helps Heifer Farmers

The COVID-19 lockdowns have brought supply chains to a virtual standstill across the globe, threatening food production and distribution systems....

Heifer International and the Walmart Foundation Partner to Strengthen Farmer Producer Organizations in Mexico
A cattle farmer with his livestock.

Food & Water

Heifer International and the Walmart Foundation Partner to Strengthen Farmer Producer Organizations in Mexico

Cattle farming in rural Mexico is often a solo or family endeavor, but being a business of one comes with risks. A new initiative from Heifer...

From Waste to Wonder: 5 Ways Heifer Farmers Use Byproducts
A mom and her 10-year-old daughter walk toward the camera carrying buckets of animal dung for their biogas unit.


Animals

From Waste to Wonder: 5 Ways Heifer Farmers Use Byproducts

Heifer farmers are reducing the accumulation of waste by producing chemical-free fertilizers, clean energy for cooking and nutrient-rich animal...

Stalled by COVID-19, a Women’s Cooperative Turns to Social Media to Build a Booming Agribusiness
Stalled by COVID-19, a Women’s Cooperative Turns to Social Media to Build a Booming Agribusiness .

Equality

Stalled by COVID-19, a Women’s Cooperative Turns to Social Media to Build a Booming Agribusiness

With COVID-19 cases rising and the market closed, members of the Akota Women’s Cooperative faced the risk of a huge loss without a market to sell...

Food Security Despite the Pandemic: The Benefits of a Kitchen Garden in Odisha, India
An Indian family – mother, father, baby and toddler – sit on the group and smile for the camera. They hold baskets of eggplants harvested from their own kitchen garden.

Announcements

Food Security Despite the Pandemic: The Benefits of a Kitchen Garden in Odisha, India

In Odisha, India, Budhini Hansda and her husband tend to a kitchen garden – a source of nutritious food and much-needed income. And as...

Biogas in Bihar, India: Harnessing the Power of Poop
An Indian woman in orange dress mixes a large pot of animal dung and water in her yard.

Climate

Biogas in Bihar, India: Harnessing the Power of Poop

In India’s Bihar state, the process of drying animal dung for fuel is common — but harmful. Thanks to Heifer India installing a biogas unit in...

This World Youth Skills Day, We Celebrate a Young Ugandan Farmer
A Ugandan man wearing a face mask and carrying a bag of his tomatoes stares at the camera.

Announcements

This World Youth Skills Day, We Celebrate a Young Ugandan Farmer

With support from Heifer’s East Africa Youth Inclusion Project, 25-year-old Mpiima Muhammed went from school dropout to a successful...

State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 Report Recognizes Impact of Heifer Ecuador
A woman in personal protective equipment exchanges money with another woman wearing a mask. A basket of fresh produce lies at their feet.

Food & Water

State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 Report Recognizes Impact of Heifer Ecuador

The goal of the Future of Food program was always to improve the lives and livelihoods of small-scale farming families in Ecuador. Now, it has...