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- - We invest in family farmers to cultivate, grow and spread environmentally sound farming practices that work with nature, not against it. The result is people igniting local change, growing an abundance of healthy food, improving incomes, and regenerating entire landscapes.
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- - Working in partnership with cutting-edge local organizations around the world, we are a non-profit organization with a mission of strengthening rural communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.
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Empowering family farmers.
Regenerating the earth.
Transforming local food economies.
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Empowering family farmers.
Regenerating the earth.
Transforming local food economies.
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What We Do

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Spreading Solutions
to Change Lives

Strengthening the exponential spread of effective ecological agriculture methods farmer-to-farmer.

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Strengthening
local organizations & grassroots movements

Partnering and working closely with cutting edge local organizations.

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Shifting
the paradigm

Amplifying our voices locally and globally to shape the story and the policies that nourish people and the planet.

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We strengthen rural communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

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Updates From the Ground

April 16, 2019

Agroecology as an alternative (Video four of a four-part series)

Friends, Groundswell is working with partners in West Africa and allies across the continent to create ground up agroecological alternatives […]

March 25, 2019

AFSA members make some noise in Accra !!!

Farmer-based Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Thursday marched to create awareness about the need to promote agroecology to tackle climate […]

March 25, 2019

Bern Guri makes the case: Agroecology is the Response to Climate Change

Here is an excellent 20-minute interview by our CIKOD partner, Bern Guri, on the Ghanaian TV program Joy News, which […]

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