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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.

Blog Post: It's lunchtime! ›

Country: Tajikistan

Working out in the field is exhilarating for so many reasons. It’s a chance to see the program in action — oh, and then there’s lunch.

Blog Post: Becoming Abla ›

A man does what he must to provide for his family. But in the small West African nation of Togo, it goes much deeper than that: each man is assigned a name, and judged by it.

One Table: Regrowing the Garden ›

Country: Myanmar

Life here in Bo Kone, Myanmar, a village of about a thousand people, has never been easy. Located on an isolated island in the Irrawaddy Delta, it's about an hour's boat ride to the nearest town.

One Table: Farming Rice, Intensively ›

Country: Sri Lanka

Kanthi Weerasinghe is one of 160 farmers in the village of Yahangala East experimenting with a method of growing rice called SRI, which is short for System of Rice Intensification.

Leaving a Blooming Legacy ›

Country: Kyrgyzstan

Bukabaev Sabyrbek owned a piece of land along Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul that lay fallow for many years. Mercy Corps gave him the know-how and loaned him the money to make it productive.

Blog Post: Burmese farmers caught in poverty trap ›

Country: Myanmar

Farming communities in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta have always followed a cycle of debt. Each year, wealthy land owners would lend farmers money, tools and cattle needed to till the soil.

Financing Higher Yields ›

Country: Sri Lanka

A farm family on the tsunami-battered coast spends a lot less time watering their farm thanks to a new motorized pump purchased with a Mercy Corps-financed loan.

Photo Essay: Rice and Recovery ›

Country: Sri Lanka

Mercy Corps continues to help Sri Lanka "build back better" from the tsunami, and focus on the country's culinary staple — rice — as a way to lift farmers' incomes and protect families against global price shocks.

The Fruits of a New Beginning ›

Country: Afghanistan

Abdul Said Majid, a farmer and schoolteacher, always worked hard to feed his family but often met calamity. Mercy Corps is helping him seed new opportunity.

Nurturing New Growth ›

Country: Afghanistan

Mercy Corps is equipping a new generation of Afghan farmers with a modern education in agribusiness and modern farming practices.

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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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