This project with long-term BGR partner Rachana aims to improve food security, health, gender equity, children’s educational opportunities, and living conditions for poor families and vulnerable individuals in rural Cambodia. While Cambodia has made great progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, extreme poverty remains widespread. The Covid pandemic has further increased food insecurity

BGR partner Building Bridges India works in Sangrur, India, to support and empower the widows of men who committed suicide because of poverty and indebtedness. This project will provide poor rural women, particularly widows, with training in the cultivation of nutritious fruits, herbs, and vegetables and the skills to sell some of their produce on

Millions of people in Malawi face food insecurity and potential starvation each year. More than half of Malawi’s population lives below the poverty line, and an estimated 37 percent of children under 5 are chronically malnourished. The United Nation has declared Malawi one of the most at-risk nations when it comes to desertification—a devastating prospect

This project with BGR partner the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Centre of Kenya (G-BIACK) has been created to address food insecurity and malnutrition and to raise the income of poor farmers in parts of Kiambu and Machakos Counties, areas that are predominantly inhabited by the Kikuyu and Kamba tribal communities, respectively. Building on previous BGR–GBIACK programs, the project

This project aims to increase the food security and income of smallholder farmers in the rural Zombo District in Uganda. In this region, more than 90 percent of residents depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods; a majority of these farmers are women who rely on agricultural production to feed their families and earn income

The Guarani are traditional peoples of the Atlantic Forest and live in villages scattered throughout southern Brazil. Centuries of colonization have resulted in the loss or degradation of much of their historic territory. Today, the Guarani are working to restore these lands, through planting and reforestation projects. This project with BGR partner Centro de Trabalho

The Easton Urban Farm, operated by the Easton Area Neighborhood Centers, is a 5/8-acre plot on which community volunteers grow vegetables, fruits, and seedlings for distribution to low-income residents of the city of Easton, Pennsylvania. In addition to providing over 7,000 pounds of nutritious, locally grown produce to food-insecure families each year, the farm also teaches

BGR partner Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) was established to promote a food-sovereign city, in which most of the fruits and vegetables Detroiters consume are grown by residents within city limits. In 2021, over half of Detroit households were food insecure; 30,000 Detroiters did not have access to a full-service grocery store; 40 percent of Detroit households relied

In Ecuador, approximately 25 percent of children under 5 suffer from chronic childhood malnutrition (CCD), a problem exacerbated by a lack of care for infants and pregnant women in Ecuador, especially in rural and mountainous areas. Forty percent of Ecuador's rural population lives below the poverty line, and 62 percent of infants suffer from anemia.

BGR partner Wawasonqo of Cusco, Peru, has been working since 2006 to break the cycle of poverty that affects 24 percent of Cusco’s population. Wawasonqo focuses its efforts on three pillars: education, nutrition, and health. The aim of this BGR-sponsored project is to address malnutrition among poor rural families in the Chaquepay peasant community in the foothills