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Breaking barriers: How Elvis became a thriving entrepreneur in Ghana’s cocoa value chain
After years away from his home village in Ghana, Elvis Adu Boahen returned as a young entrepreneur and created a…
09 January 2024
A VISIT TO BANGLADESH: WATER ACCESS TRANSFORMS VILLAGE LIFE & AGRICULTURE
Innovative approaches to water and land-use are changing agriculture in Bangladesh. Young farmers, like Tania and Rubel, have seen a…
04 January 2024
A Love that unites Forests and Cocoa in Brazil
A mother of 11, a grandmother of 24, a great-grandmother of 2: Angelita Ferreira is a force of nature who…
21 December 2023
A woman’s resilience bears fruit
Sandra Zanardi never saw herself as an orange farmer, but after the death of her husband, she took the reins…
07 December 2023
From Field to Facials: Work with Solidaridad Spurs a Spa Dream
The struggle to find work in South Africa is real. Since 2000, the unemployment rate has held steady at over…
29 November 2023
Redefining cocoa farming, improving livelihoods through crop diversification in Ghana
Crop diversification through Solidaridad's Cocoa Life programme is helping Ghanaian cocoa farmers, like Kwaku Atta, improve incomes and local livelihoods.…
20 November 2023
SOLIDARIDAD AND EMFED: A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FOR WASTE-TO-COMPOST CIRCULARITY
Kwabena Mends, a young entrepreneur and founder of EMFED Farms in Assin Fosu in central Ghana, has launched an innovative…
02 November 2023
Promoting Entrepreneurs in Agriculture One Farmer at a Time
Patrick Newman Kortey has become a household name in the local Boase Sibi community in Ghana. As an entrepreneur and…
30 October 2023
Rural Woman Coffee Farmer Leads the Way in Tanzania
For many rural women, building a successful business can be a struggle due to limited access to resources. Suzan Malya,…
13 October 2023
Banding together to conserve & restore mangrove habitat
After a fire destroyed a large part of an important mangrove forest on Guatemala’s Pacific coast, national and international institutions…
02 October 2023
