Like most people, small-scale farmers respond to markets that offer the best price and typically follow the pr
I don’t believe she had ever planted a tree before. Though I can’t remember her name, I will never forget the way her face lit up. Kneeling down with her Gliricidia sepium tree seedling, she gingerly placed its roots into its new home and filled the hole with dirt. When she looked up, the […]
With a determined staff and deep convictions, COMACO is now launching a new business model that links our farmers directly to low-income consumers in this way, offering the same quality products but making them significantly cheaper and more available to these populations.
"The soil is dead," was his reply. "No nutrients. Fertilizers are too expensive for a poor farmer like me and
The traditional values of helping and sharing are reemerging as cooperatives build a path toward self-reliance
We call this approach to farming, “farming with nature”, which includes such practices as zero tillage, cr
Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet and up to eighty percent of the world’s land-based spec
