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Guatemalan immigration to the United States is rooted partly in low coffee prices, the CEO of Heifer International said Monday.

It’s International Day of the Girl, so to mark the occasion we have put together a list of organizations working to make the world a better place for girls and young women.

You can tell by the quiet smile on his face that Bonifacio Cruz Ruiz is proud of his agave plants.

Life, no matter how hard you try to simplify it, isn’t some cut-and-dried balance sheet. Debits and credits don’t fall into easy categories. You can’t expect to sit down and have it all add up and even out.

Cargill, a global agribusiness, and Heifer International, a global non-profit, think that chickens may be the answer to poverty and hunger in the developing world. Their new initiative Hatching Hope aims to empower women and improve the economic and nutritional livelihoods of 100 million people by 2030. Food Tank spoke with Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO of Heifer International, to learn more.

Long championed by governments, private companies and nonprofits as a means of driving development, coffee has become one of the world’s most traded commodities.

Poultry processor Cargill and charity Heifer International have joined forces to create a new initiative which aims to improve the nutrition and economic livelihoods of 100m people by 2030 through the production, promotion and consumption of poultry.

Heifer International, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, is training youth in business and social skills as part of the East Africa Youth Inclusion Program. The project will equip 25,000 youth between the ages of 15 and 24 in Uganda and Tanzania with the skills they need to run agriculture-related businesses.

Heifer International stress the importance of health for animals as a means to human prosperity, but investments in animal health still tend to languish as a subcategory of agriculture development, which received only 4.5 percent of aid flows in 2016.

Heifer International’s goal is to make every family sustainably self-reliant by giving them the tools to produce food and a reliable income. The organization believes that a sustainable income will bring new opportunities for funding small businesses, building schools, and creating agricultural cooperatives.