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Regenerative Agriculture Helps Nepali Farms Bloom
iDE is powering farmers to protect the environment using natural remedies
By intervening at critical entry points, iDE Nepal is working hard to promote the integration of traditional ecological knowledge with modern agricultural practices among last mile entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers.
Read more: Farmers are trading chemicals for traditional remedies. -
Harnessing Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Resilience
A market systems approach to inclusive entrepreneurship in rural communities with a focus on women and youth
In Mozambique iDE is implementing its largest global operation with funded projects totalling more than US$40 million. By implementing a range of innovative agricultural, entrepreneurship and alternative livelihood projects across the country, iDE is working to lift thousands of people out of poverty.
Read more: iDE Mozambique’s efforts have successfully assisted farmers and entrepreneurs living in Maputo, Gaza,Sofala, Manica, Nampula and Cabo Delgado provinces -
Building a circular economy to clean up plastic waste
Vietnamese effort sees trash turned into building materials and tote bags
The 3-year, US$1.6 million project, funded by Denmark’s Danida Market Development Partnership, aims to transform Danang’s plastic waste into everything from boards used to construct buildings, to designer carry bags, sold by socially-conscious brands around the world.
Read more: Training informal waste pickers is part of a new approach being taken by iDE to support circular economies -
Agricultural value chain bears fruit
How adopting a new crop helped boost incomes and climate resilience of Cambodian farmers
The World Bank says improving the performance of agricultural value chains in emerging countries like Cambodia will be crucial to ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity, and stewarding the world’s natural resources.
Read more: iDE was instrumental in establishing the value chain, under our Climate Smart Commercial Horticulture Cambodia (CSmart) program. -
Seeing is believing for entrepreneurial Ghanaians
Farmers powered by successful agricultural project
Shei is one of 146 farmers powered by the successful project known as Accelerating Impact of Food Security (AIFS) – which is part of iDE’s broader Korsung agricultural initiative, which translates as “good farming practices” in local language, Dagbani – which ran between April 2021 and March 2022.
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Climate Changes Farm Advisor's Message
Inutu Now Tells Farmers To Prepare For Drought
The rains didn’t come in November, as they used to. When they did begin in December, here in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, they didn’t last long.
“The drought has really impacted the farmers,” said Inutu Musialela, 53. “In February, it didn’t rain at all. In March, it did rain, but not until the last week.”
“Most of the crops were planted, like maize and sunflower. The rains started but then they went off. The farmers were hit with that. Their crops didn’t grow.”
Since Inutu began working with iDE in 2012, she says the local climate has changed significantly. As a Farm Business Advisor (FBA), Inutu has taught small scale farmers how to fertilize and protect their crops from pests.
Nowadays she spends just as much time teaching farmers how to become resilient to climate change, telling them to plant early maturing crops that require less water, or that they should plant a greater diversity of crops should some varieties fail.
“Because climate change has hit us now, I encourage them to prepare the land before the rains come.”
“They dig holes, like a basin, to plant their crops inside. These potholes hold water around the roots. There they can grow soybeans, maize, anything.”
Read more: iDE has trained more than 300 FBAs across Zambia who leverage existing market players, such as suppliers and transporters, to increase small farm productivity, improving access to inputs for farmers and building links with commercial markets. -
Change Agents Power Recovering Mozambican Farmers
iDE Adapted To Combat Natural Disasters and Socio-Economic Disruptions
Farm Business Advisor (FBA) Flora Mostiço is a change agent in her Mozambican community. At her market store in Nhamatanda, in the Beira Corridor, the mother of six sells affordable agricultural inputs including high quality seeds, fertilizer, and water pumps. Despite repeated cyclones in the region, she runs a successful small scale farm and provides business support to other farmers. “I started with something small and now I am growing,” Flora says of her business. iDE has trained some 332 (117 women) FBAs like Flora across Mozambique’s Maputo, Sofala, Manica, Tete and Zambezia provinces.
Read more: FBAs have an average of 639 farmer clients each, 42 percent of whom were women. -
Doing good through sustainable businesses
We're highlighting three social businesses that we’re excited to follow as they grow and make an impact.
Using profit to build a sustainable business that meets people’s needs, social enterprises flourish while doing good.
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Adapting to climate change
The Farmer Resilience & Rebuilding Initiative in Mozambique
How iDE is helping smallholder farmers increase their resilience following both Cyclone Idai and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Protecting the watershed and a way of life in Honduras
Watersheds are crucial to the sustainability of businesses, communities, and ecosystems. In Honduras, we’re working with people all along the watershed to protect water at its source, ensuring it continues flowing for generations to come.
Read more: Protecting water at its source