Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action

This article is a contribution to a blog series on how Partners Agriculture and Food Security programs contribute to the UN Sustainable Deve...

From Peace Corps to Farmer-to-Farmer: F2F Volunteer Uses Skills Learned in Peace Corps with a Women's Group in the Amazon

Alex Matthews served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 2009-2011. In December 2015, he left for Ecuador to complete a  vegetable produ...

Waste Not Want Not: Post-Harvest Loss

Earlier this week, Peggy Carlson, Partners’ Vice President of Development Programs and Senior Director for Agriculture and Food Security, pa...

Biochar and "Green Charcoal" Gaining Momentum in LAC

Green charcoal created by CRI and Makouti The U.N. has designated 2015 as the Year of Soil, and over the 24 years that Partners has been run...

Building up the Bees in Haiti

This post contains excerpts and photos from Dr. Michael Bauer's trip report about his recent F2F assignment in Haiti.  "The bee ind...

Mama Knows Best: Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother’s Day! Here at Partners of the Americas Agriculture and Food Security Team, we treasure mothers. There have been numerous art...