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Growing Together: Farmers, Buyers and Municipalities Thrive in Value Chains
CRS works with farmers to improve their produce quality and yields, and then connects them to local markets so they can sell their products and earn a living.More
South Sudan’s Farming Groups Grow Prosperity
Following devastating losses to conflict and natural disasters, vegetable gardens provide food, cash and a sense of community. More
Madagascar Raises Child Nutrition
The CRS program also strengthens relationships, builds community support and includes climate-smart approaches to growing more crops for food and income.More
Farming Better, Increasing Incomes in Malawi
Climate-smart farming helps more than 240,000 families thrive despite droughts and floods.More
Bonn Climate Conference Historic Agriculture Agreement
The recent Bonn climate conference (COP23) formally agreed to a way forward on implementation of agricultural practices related to climate and food security.More
Investing & Growing in Ethiopia: How Savings Groups Help Families During Drought
Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) help thousands of women and their families in Ethiopia improve their economic situation by starting small businesses, buying livestock or even sending their children to school.More
Expanding Community Participation in Ethiopia
When a drought hits a community, it impacts everyone. But often, not everyone feels represented or included in the response to the challenge. This can be for many reasons, including a person’s gender or a disability.More
Transforming Lives in Ethiopia with Gardens and Savings
Ethiopia is in the midst of its worst drought in 50 years, putting more than 10 million people at risk for starvation. Prolonged drought, erratic rainfall and land degradation are posing challenges that have pushed people to the edge.More
The Push and Pull of Climate Change
In both Chad and Bangladesh, people are being pushed by climate change and other factors to migrate in search of opportunity. In Peru, people are also on the move, this time answering the call of the South American gold rush. They are being pulled into climate change. Choose a story to explore...More
A Year of Climate Change with CRS
In 2016, we brought you stories from all over the world of people struggling with the effects of climate change.More