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Insights from Heifer projects and our work with partners to catalyze local solutions for global impact.

Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem
A female farmer feeding pigs in a sty.

Animals

Healthy Animals, Healthy People: Heifer Experts on What Makes a Thriving Farm Ecosystem

The health and safety of livestock impacts the economic and nutritional security of smallholder farmers. Heifer experts share four simple farm and...

What is a Cooperative?
Two smiling Cambodian women stand in a field, holding bundles of rice.

Food & Water

What is a Cooperative?

Agricultural cooperatives enable individual farmers to operate as a collective agribusiness, driven by values of solidarity and reciprocity....

Celebrating the Power of Partnership
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Announcements

Celebrating the Power of Partnership

As we close this chapter and embrace the new year, we're celebrating some of the partners who support our mission to end hunger and poverty in a...

From Kenya to Bangladesh: 5 Ways Heifer Builds Strong Market Systems
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Food & Water

From Kenya to Bangladesh: 5 Ways Heifer Builds Strong Market Systems

Heifer invests in infrastructure across our project areas to build strong market systems, giving farmers the purchasing power to keep nutritious...

What is Regenerative Agriculture?
A woman kneels in a grassy field, holding soil in her hands, as a herd of cows stands behind her.

Climate

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture means stewarding the land to create a balanced ecosystem in which the cycles of nature work symbiotically and freely.

An Ambitious Mother Feeds Her Family, Fulfills New Dreams
A woman holds a handful of eggs at her farm in Cambodia.

Equality

An Ambitious Mother Feeds Her Family, Fulfills New Dreams

With support from Heifer International, Tor Pon Louk has transformed from a struggling farmer into a successful business owner and leader for her...

4 Ways Heifer is Helping End World Hunger
A young girl holding a glass of milk and looking at her mother sitting next to her.

Food & Water

4 Ways Heifer is Helping End World Hunger

Nearly 811 million people go to bed hungry each night. Chronic hunger is exacerbated by poverty, lack of nutrition education and social barriers....

No More Praying for Rain: Well Brings Water to Nepal’s Waterless
A Nepali woman wearing a bright yellow shawl waters her vegetables with a hose.

Climate

No More Praying for Rain: Well Brings Water to Nepal’s Waterless

Like many smallholder farmers in Nepal, Tara Devi Mahato depended on unreliable rainfall to irrigate her crops. Now, thanks to Heifer Nepal and a...