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Young leaders shaping the future of food systems through film: Join us at the next Field to Film Festival
Come witness the talent, creativity, and passion of young people from different corners of the world, who invite us into realities that deserve to be seen, understood, and celebrated.
Agroecology Works Even Under Climate Pressure: What Our Partners Showed Us in 2025
How agroecology helped farmers across Latin America, West Africa, and South Asia withstand climate s…
The Silence of the Land: A Story Written by Young Storytellers from Mexico
"But the years pass, life changes, and the climate changes too. The rains grow scarcer each year, an…
EL SILENCIO DE LA TIERRA: Una historia escrita por jóvenes contadores de historias de México
"Nuestros ojos han sido testigos de un cambio que creímos tardaría muchos años más en llegar, sin em…
Bridging the Gap: Appropriate Farming Technology for Scaling Agroecology in West Africa
A new pilot challenges high-tech farming narratives, showing how appropriate tools for agroecology c…
Nancy’s hands: from rock to fertile soil
“Nancy speaks slowly, without haste. She says that the earth also teaches, but only to those who lis…
Las manos de Nancy: de la roca a la tierra fértil
Nancy es una campesina indígena de la comunidad de Tunshi Grande, en Ecuador. Durante los últimos añ…
Agroecology Pays Off in Burkina Faso: New Study Shows 77% Yield Gains and Strong Financial Returns Despite Extremely Dry Conditions
A new study from Groundswell International, Altus Impact, and the Burkinabè NGO Association Nourrir …
Youth Storytellers of Latin America & the Caribbean Gather for Their First In-Person Meeting
This article was originally published in Spanish. Read it here. Eleven young people, leaders and rep…
Jóvenes Contadores de Historias de América Latina y el Caribe viven su primer encuentro presencial
Once jóvenes, líderes y representantes de diferentes organizaciones socias de Groundswell Internatio…
Ajil Tz’aqat: A Mayan Way of Life for a World in Crisis
“You are me, and I am you; we are us, and what happens to you happens to me.”  …
Scaling Agroecology in West Africa with Community-Led Agroecology Committees: Lessons for Facilitators
Partnerships that leave communities strong, self-reliant, and resilient have been at the core of the…
Planning Climate-Resilient Farms with Hand-Drawn Maps and Satellite Images
High in the Ecuadorian Andes, two farming communities, Cuellaloma in Chimborazo and Atocha in Cotopa…
Semillas expandidas: Exploraciones sobre mercados locales en América Latina y el Caribe
Esta multimedia te llevará a Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras y Haití, donde organizaciones campesinas e…
Expanded Seeds: Exploring Local Market Dynamics in Latin America & The Caribbean
This multimedia story takes you to Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti, where peasant and Indige…
How This School Kitchen Garden Is Transforming Meals and Homes in Bihar, India
At Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya, an upper middle school in Bihar with just over 250 students, learning …
Restoring Ancient Ahar-Pyne Water Systems: A Rebirth of Traditional Farming Practices in India
In the flat farmlands of Surungabigha in Southern Bihar, a dry body of water had been quie…
What Grows on Concrete? Lessons from the Urkuwayku Regenerative Farm in Ecuador
Perched atop a breezy hillside in the Ecuadorian Andes, a 5-hectare farm shows what the future of fo…
How Joining a Women’s Savings Group Helped This Farmer Survive Cancer
Farmers in Nepal, especially women, face a host of intersecting challenges. Many work with limited r…
“We Are One”: Mercedes, a Young Kichwa Woman, Speaks on Nature, Community & Indigenous Knowledge
Mercedes is 16 years old and lives in Tunshi Grande, a Kichwa community 3,000 meters above sea level…
Groundswell International Earns a Top Four-Star Rating From Charity Navigator
Groundswell International is proud to share that we have earned a Four-Star Rating from Charity Navi…
21 Verses or Principles of a Model Farmer
Across Haiti’s rural hillsides, farming is a way of life, anchored in community, care for the land, …