Updates from the Ground

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Adjima Dianou
Posted May 22nd, 2013 in Farmer Hero

Burkina Faso, like other countries located in the Sahel region of Africa, is experiencing a food crisis due to persistent drought. Almost two million Burkinabe do not have enough to eat, many of them surviving on just one meal per...
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In Honor of Madame Fatima Addy
Posted May 21st, 2013 in Ghana

Groundswell is sad to report the passing of Madame Fatima Addy, one of the inspiring women leaders who worked in Northern Ghana to strengthen community organizations and spread sustainable agriculture practices. Madame Fatima understood the challenges faced by rural women...
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Partnership with One Day’s Wages to Support Women Farmers in Ghana
Posted May 16th, 2013 in Ghana

Groundswell International is excited to announce our partnership with One Day’s Wages to raise funds for a project that supports women’s groups working to address economic insecurity and hunger in Northern Ghana. Since 2010, Groundswell has partnered with the Center...
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Gubbels Provides Agriculture Training to USAID Staff
Posted May 6th, 2013 in Agroecological Farming, Building Resilient Communities, Natural Resources Management & Resilience to Climate Change

Peter Gubbels, Groundswell International’s Regional Facilitator for West Africa, was recently invited by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide resource training for the global USAID agricultural staff. In the video, Peter discusses how current agriculture investments are...
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The Myth That GMOs Are Needed to Solve the Food Crisis
Posted April 24th, 2013 in GMOs, Seeds

The following post was written by Chris Sacco, Director of Operations. Steve Sherwood, a friend and Groundswell Co-Founder, recently made a compelling case to me that, contrary to popular belief, conventional agricultural Science cannot solve the food crisis we are...
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