Yasmeen, a 44-year-old resident of Sultanabad, Gilgit, Pakistan lives with her family of five. Due to family commitments, she was unable to work full time despite graduating with a college degree. She practiced traditional vegetable farming but the yield was too low to sell in local markets and barely met her household’s needs. Limited awareness […]
In West Java, Indonesia, the Indramayu Regency is one of the country’s most important rice-producing areas. Here, members of the Indonesian Peasant Union/Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) have come together to form and manage the Indramayu Indonesian Peasant Cooperative (KPI/SPI Indramayu). Through this cooperative, they are producing and marketing rice cultivated using agroecological practices—free from harmful […]
Sory Channath, a 37-year-old young farmer from Tomnum Thmey Village, Chheap Commune, Toeuk Phos District, Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia, has built a career in hatching chicken eggs and supplying chicks to his community. He manages a 3-hectare farm, where he grows paddy rice on 2 hectares, raises poultry on 0.5 hectares, cultivates vegetables on 0.37 […]