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According to the World Bank, better agricultural practices can help reduce poverty, raise incomes and improve food security for some of the world’s poorest communities. 80% of the world's poor live in rural areas and work mainly in farming, with the preponderance being women. There could hardly be more at stake. Read about some of the many challenges and solutions here.
In Pyata, a rural community in Niger State, Nigeria, farming is more than just a livelihood—it’s the central activity that connects the village. For Alhaji Ibrahim…
Twenty million people in Eastern Africa rely on flour from over 1,500 small mills for primary nutrition. For many, especially children and pregnant women, this flour…
The Life You Can Save has closed its COVID-19 Fund. Take a look at how your support helped our charities respond rapidly to the challenges presented…
Nate, a year 4 student in Northern Territories, Australia, created a school project to combat global poverty by fundraising for One Acre Fund.
The Life You Can Save's blog usually talks about the challenge of extreme poverty and best ways to combat it, along with big and small ways in…
Graduation programs such as those run by Village Enterprise help people lift themselves out of extreme poverty by providing a small up-front infusion of cash to…
I was born to a violent, polygamous Dad who did not pay my tuition since childhood. My mum, who herself never went to school, resorted to…
We’re excited to announce the addition of One Acre Fund to our 2016 list of Best Charities. Subsistence agriculture accounts for the largest economic activity in…
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