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Catalyzing Resilient Seed Systems in Mexico during COVID-19
In southern Mexico, the loss of native seed varieties is a crisis undermining indigenous communities and cultures. We at Groundswell International are facilitating a collaborative action-learning process with eight local NGOs to strengthen farmer’s capacities to recover, improve and distribute quality local corn, beans, wheat, and amaranth seeds. This reverses the loss of biodiversity and improves food production and resilience to climate change. Seed production is essential, not only to conserve biodiversity, but also for rural communities’ food security. This is broadly involved in the commu …
Improving the resilience of rural communities in the Sahel through pro-equity agroecology interventions
Vulnerability looks different across all rural communities. Pro-equity agroecology programs must take that into account.
In Loving Memory of Rebecca Akua Sabri
Rural Women Farmers Association of Ghana This tribute piece is a guest post from her sons, Denis Banuoku and Daniel Banuoku. We at Groundswell are grateful for Rebecca’s work over her lifetime and her family’s continued commitment to honor her legacy. Mrs. Rebecca Sabri was a gentle and warm soul. And that warmth radiated and touched many who had the opportunity to interact with her. Perpetually a mother to all, her arms and home were open to receive so many people in her lifetime. A very brilliant woman that oozed wisdom, She was a trail blazer and change leader in several ways. The fac …
The Dry Corridor in Crisis
The Dry Corridor of Central America is in crisis. Extreme environmental degradation, increasingly unpredictable rainfall due to Climate Change, recurrent droughts, flooding, and other natural disasters threaten the lives and livelihoods of more than 10 million people living in this ecologically fragile region.
A Revolution of Accountability and Transparency
Groundswell’s founders created a bottom-up, network organizational structure that seeks to be truly accountable and transparent to the people we serve, to our partners around the world, and to the thousands of supporters who make our work possible. We continually strive to improve upon our structure and operating model in keeping with these principles and to bring our innovative approaches to scale.
Guiding Principles in Challenging Times
This has been an exhausting and disorienting year. In the United States, we face deep divisions, even while we are challenged to join forces to confront huge crises. Currents of hope, fear, determination and anxiety run deep. Where do we find inspiration in these rough seas to steer towards real solutions? We at Groundswell draw on what we have learned from rural families around the world, and from our heroic front-line partner organizations that are strengthening communities and social movements in Africa, the Americas and South Asia to create better lives.