Archives: Stories
One Community’s Effort: The Forest That Returned a Creek
This is the story of a community in the El Dovio Municipality in Colombia, who worked together to recover their territory’s…
03 May 2018
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Presents Award to Lead Female Farmer of Solidaridad's SAFAL Programme
On 1 March, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh presented an award to Shikha Rani Chakravarti, a lead farmer of Solidaridad…
13 April 2018
Solidaridad's ambition is not to work directly with millions of farmers and miners or thousands of factories. Instead, through our…
22 February 2018
Sustaining Customary Forests: A Story of Change in Indonesia
Kulbir Mehta, Solidaridad’s Indonesia Country Manager outlines why local communities should be recognised as the lawful custodian of forests. He…
21 February 2018
Food security in Kenya: Increasing quality of supply while developing demand
It’s hard to miss. Kenya is developing fast. The shiny new buildings and shopping malls in Nairobi are just one…
22 November 2017
Investing in women for community economic development
“We desire to undertake some economic venture but we have no funds to start any activity here”, lamented Sarah Asare,…
21 November 2017
China’s “left behind” women are moving ahead
Wenshu Zhao, a cotton farmer from Wangdaozhaier village in China, never thought she’d become an entrepreneur. Her farm in Hebei…
21 September 2017
Preserving the environment through responsible mining
Small-scale mining is a high-risk activity with miners facing a host of dangers every day. It is also seen as…
07 September 2017
Protecting forests
With the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s support Solidaridad developed a comprehensive strategy for sustainable agriculture approaches to reducing deforestation…
01 September 2017
The resilience of cotton and its communities in Brazil
Solidaridad and Instituto C&A want to take up the tradition of cotton growing in a region that was once a…
03 May 2017
