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Future of farming: Bill Gates
The future of farming “Agricultural productivity is one of the most basic things that can help the poor move to a more prosperous life,” Bill Gates stated in a new video released to coincide with...
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Helping women farm better
Keeping children safe, providing for their needs, and giving them the opportunities they deserve to flourish are the hopes of parents all over the world. Mwinpog Dan-yi and her youngest child. She has...
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Farming: changing the pulse
Ahmed joined MILEAR in 2014 and learned how to grow and sell mung bean, a resilient pulse crop. Ahmed lives in Shekla village in the Eastern Amhara Region of Ethiopia. He has four children – two sons...
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A well full of opportunities
“I used to work as a daily labourer on other people’s farms for a small wage,” Hussien said, reflecting on the challenges he and his wife faced in feeding their children. When their fields could not...
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Students take action
Students take action for Indigenous food rights “Words mean nothing if the actions don’t follow,” Aleena Ahmed told us, reflecting on the week of fundraising she helped lead with peers at Stephen Lewis...
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Growing food (and love)
When the rains leave northern Ghana, so too do the men. Smallholder farm families who depend on rain-fed crops often send the men south in the dry season to find work – leaving children and wives – so...
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Women reel in success
When aquaculture was introduced through Canadian Feed The Children’s (CFTC) food security project RESULT, women enthusiastically joined knowing they could cultivate high-protein food and earn money at...
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…achieve big dreams? “Can you do big things, from such a small place?” Phiona Mutes asks her mother this question in the upcoming Walt Disney film Queen of Katwe, wondering if she would ever be able to...
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Aid4Agriculture
Agriculture for Clean and Inclusive Economic Growth CFTC has joined the Aid4Agriculture Coalition to advocate for Canada’s support for sustainable agriculture and climate change adaptation for...
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Communities cultivate change
Zemu carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. At only forty-six years old, she is the breadwinner for her grandchildren, their single mother Fatima, and her adult son who has a disability. The...
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