Eva van Ierssel

Every day, women worldwide make a valuable contribution to the agricultural sector. When they are supported to overcome the many challenges they face, they are capable of creating significant change. A staggering 80% of the world’s poor reside in rural areas and earn a living largely through agriculture, tending to crops and animals on smallholder […]

In these volatile times every year seems to be a challenge. Last year as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine we saw a significant increase in prices of groceries, gasoline, and  energy. We have all experienced the financial impact, and that is no different for the farming families we work with. They

Fatuma Auma is a smallholder farmer, a nursery school teacher and a mother of four. Having nurtured young minds for several years herself, Fatuma knows the critical role education can play in defining the future of children, families and even communities. But in Dokolo District of northern Uganda, where Fatuma lives, unreliable livelihoods and inadequate

With worldwide hunger steadily on the rise, one flaw in the global food system is particularly hard to stomach: food waste. Food loss and waste is a global challenge with enormous economic, environmental and health consequences. Read on to learn more about this issue and how Heifer is working to overcome it. In Uganda and