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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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- - There are many ways for you to get involved with our work such hosting a dinner party or presentation, making a tax-deductible donation, or sharing stories with friends and family.

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.

Strengthening
local organizations & grassroots movements

Partnering and working closely with cutting edge local organizations.

Shifting
the paradigm

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

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

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News & Updates From the Ground

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Farmers in Africa Address Deforestation and Hunger with Agroecology

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