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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.

A Welcome Harvest ›

Country: Myanmar

It would be hard to overstate the importance of rice to the people of Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta: it is the staple food, cash crop and livelihood of this entire region.

Bold Woman Makes a Difference ›

Country: Myanmar

When the cyclone hit, Mra Sabai Nyun was taking a break from a 30-year career in public service — but right away she decided that she had something to offer the devastated region.

Navigating Change in the Delta ›

Country: Myanmar

A little more than seven months after the storm, Mercy Corps is transitioning from humanitarian relief to a longer term recovery effort in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta. Jeremy Barnicle recently spent a week in the region to monitor progress and report back successes and challenges.

Better School Lunches - No, Really ›

Country: Mongolia

Throughout much of Mongolia, school meals are the only nutrition that students receive. Mercy Corps helped make them more nutritious.

Shepherding Tradition ›

Country: Mongolia

Here in a nomad camp in Mongolia's southernmost province, the Master Herder is dressed in a black velvet jacket, grey corduroy pants and blue hiking boots.

Faces of the Gobi ›

Country: Mongolia

Here are some of the people and landscapes we encountered on a two-week, 1,600 mile journey over Mongolia's deserts, mountains and steppes.

Miracle Growth ›

Country: Mongolia

This is a story about how political transformation, tourism and tomatoes created an oasis in the southernmost reaches of the Gobi. It begins with a man named Poli.

Preserving Nomadic Life ›

Country: Mongolia

In the sometimes-splendid isolation of the Gobi, Tumurchuluun knows that herding is good work, important work. And Mercy Corps knows that, too.

A Journey Begins with Two Flat Tires ›

Country: Mongolia

Travel in Mongolia is some of the toughest I've ever experienced: regardless, we rumbled more than 1,600 miles across desert, steppes and mountains.

Improving Health, Empowering Women ›

Country: Tajikistan

In the Rasht Valley, thousands of families live in small communities located miles from a main road.

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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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