Groundswell International
Groundswell International’s mission is strengthening communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.
We support smallholder farming communities to sustainably improve their wellbeing and livelihoods, strengthen their food sovereignty, and create regenerative food and farming systems that address climate, environmental, and socio-economic challenges.
We work in 11 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, West Africa, and South Asia.
Pobaadou, a family farmer from Burkina Faso, has found an empowering path and role in her community.
She has created a women’s group with 43 other women, and together they have developed a small vegetable farm and are regenerating the once barren soil.
As a result, in addition to producing enough nutritious food for her own family, Pobaadou earned over $425 each of the last two years, selling surplus vegetables at the local market. This is in an area where the average income is only $197 a year.
As a community volunteer, Pobaadou now teaches other women like her how they can make the same kind of changes in their own lives.
Financials
Programs
Agroecology
Smallholder farm households improve their capacity to increase productivity and food security by transitioning their farming systems through agroecological methods.
Women’s Empowerment
Women farmers have gained greater control over productive resources and decision making in their households and communities.
Local Markets
Smallholder farm households have sustainably increased their incomes and diversified their livelihoods with an emphasis on local markets.
Improved Nutrition
Vulnerable households have improved dietary diversity and nutritional status.
Enabling Context
Together with allies, Groundswell has made significant contributions to an enabling environment for agroecology at local, national, and regional levels.
Youth Storytellers
Empowering young people to become powerful communicators for change by capturing and sharing narratives of the smallholder farmers in their communities.