Chip and Joanna Gaines, founders of Magnolia, the home and lifestyle brand, will be keynote speakers at the Fast Company Innovation Festival this fall.
This year, with a pandemic and natural disasters, globally, the company intensified its focus on boosting economies, improving livelihoods and making a difference to individuals, families, farmers and small businesses around the world.
As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact,” I have the pleasure of interviewing Donna Kilpatrick.
The Microfinance Support Centre Ltd (MSC), a government credit financial institution, partnered with Heifer International, a local NGO, to provide dairy animals on loan to farmers in Unyama and Koro sub-counties of Gulu and Omoro districts, respectively.
Addressing members of the Tanga Dairies Cooperative Union (TDCU), Mpina wanted the cooperative union to be established and start operating by October, this year.
Donna has spent more than 20 years working in agriculture, with a focus on regenerative agriculture. She has managed the Heifer Ranch since 2017, where she oversees a team of women farmers that take care of a 1,200 acre working, regenerative ranch.
Leading experts, former executive director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin and the director of the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientist Ricardo Salvador and president and CEO of Heifer International Pierre Ferrari, came together to discuss how we can create more resilient food systems, as communities, public and private entities innovate, adapt and rise to meet the crisis.
An educational working ranch shows an example of a system that’s better for employees, for animals, and for the earth
‘Where have all the flowers, vegetables and fruits gone?” It’s a question we hope never to ask. For many of these plant products to exist, however, we need pollinators such as bees. For several years, bees have been threatened by pesticides, habitat loss and disease. KidsPost talked to three kids working to help reverse that trend.
In Newalpur, one cooperative used their pass to establish an agri-ambulance to collect vegetables from farmers and get them to markets.
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