Archives: Stories
Spotlight on Colombia: A Different Story of Palm Oil
Palm oil is associated with negative practices such as deforestation and displacement, but this plant and its fruit have other…
27 July 2018
TUERÊ AND COCOA: Family Production to Reforest the Amazon
In one of the biggest rural settlements in Latin America, cocoa producers are learning to recover native forests with sustainable…
10 May 2018
One Community’s Effort: The Forest That Returned a Creek
This is the story of a community in the El Dovio Municipality in Colombia, who worked together to recover their territory’s…
03 May 2018
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Presents Award to Lead Female Farmer of Solidaridad's SAFAL Programme
On 1 March, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh presented an award to Shikha Rani Chakravarti, a lead farmer of Solidaridad…
13 April 2018
Solidaridad's ambition is not to work directly with millions of farmers and miners or thousands of factories. Instead, through our…
22 February 2018
Sustaining Customary Forests: A Story of Change in Indonesia
Kulbir Mehta, Solidaridad’s Indonesia Country Manager outlines why local communities should be recognised as the lawful custodian of forests. He…
21 February 2018
Food security in Kenya: Increasing quality of supply while developing demand
It’s hard to miss. Kenya is developing fast. The shiny new buildings and shopping malls in Nairobi are just one…
22 November 2017
Investing in women for community economic development
“We desire to undertake some economic venture but we have no funds to start any activity here”, lamented Sarah Asare,…
21 November 2017
China’s “left behind” women are moving ahead
Wenshu Zhao, a cotton farmer from Wangdaozhaier village in China, never thought she’d become an entrepreneur. Her farm in Hebei…
21 September 2017
Preserving the environment through responsible mining
Small-scale mining is a high-risk activity with miners facing a host of dangers every day. It is also seen as…
07 September 2017
