Agriculture

Most of the world doesn't have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. A family's plot of land has to provide for their nutritional and economic needs. Mercy Corps works with families to ensure quality inputs, a good crop yield and a fair price at local markets.

Video: How To Farmers Can Keep Their Kids in School ›

The vast majority of Central Africans depend upon agriculture to feed their families and earn a living.

Video: Distributing Seeds and Feeding Families ›

The Central African Republic is one of the least-developed countries in the world.

Special Report: Reinterpreting Tea Leaves ›

Mercy Corps and Tazo Tea Company are helping almost 13,000 people empower themselves and find opportunities to build better lives for themselves, their families and communities.

Perfect Harmony Family ›

The 500 pounds of homemade noodles that Guo Guifen sells each market day keep local cook-pots full - and have won her family the village's top honor.

Blog Post: Six days on the road ›

I'm both exhausted and exhilarated by my six-day journey through the red clay rocky back-roads of Tajikistan's border area with Kyrgyzstan in the Rasht Valley.

Blog Post: The tenuous return ›

While many long-displaced Acholi people have returned home to their pre-war villages, the return is not always easy.

Blog Post: Grow what you eat, eat what you grow ›

Mercy Corps is working with Liberian farmers to coax their next meal – and all the meals of their future – out of the ground.

Blog Post: Cocoa, arm wrestling and opportunity ›

Mercy Corps is helping Annie Garfree and other Liberian women farmers meet their country's own goals by becoming more successful farmers.

Blog Post: Seeing the work first hand ›

It is one thing to read all about the work of an organization. It is something entirely different to see it with your own eyes. It is inspirational.

Seeds of Sunshine ›

Alex Odongo is finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. After decades of an insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army — a rebel group defined by its brutal tactics, which often targeted civilians — that left the country ravaged and its people nearly hopeless, the sun is beginning to shine again in northern Uganda.

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Program Details

In the countries where Mercy Corps works, agriculture provides the main source of household income and is the primary means of food security for 57 percent of the population. These people face incredible obstacles: soaring prices for food, seeds and other supplies; outdated technology; unfavorable or limited access to markets and financial services; and poor soil and water resource management.

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Recent Blog Posts

November 18, 2009
Six days on the road
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The tenuous return
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