Binh Minh Agroforestry Cooperative in Yen Bai Province in northern Viet Nam exemplifies how a cooperative can improve the lives of communities. A group of 18 farmers transformed itself from an informal group into the registered cooperative, with 60 hectares of Forest Stewardship Council certified plantation and a chain of custody...

MJUMITA is a farmer community group in Tanzania with almost 50 000 members. Thanks to MJUMITA network, small-scale producers are expanding their businesses showing that charcoal can become a sustainable source of pride and income. 

This video showcases charcoal practice alternatives cases in Ghana developed with support of the Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers.

Shanta Neupane had a vision. From Panauti Municipality, in central Nepal, she could see how hard women in the rural forest and farming communities around her worked in their family smallholdings, helping to feed their households. But although, like Shanta herself, they were members of community forest user groups, these same...

Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the lives of rural farmers upside down. However, grassroots organizations have adapted to the pandemic and found innovative ways to help their members.