Womens' Efforts

This project aims to add value to Indigenous and traditional rice varieties and agricultural practices that preserve biodiversity and soil fertility and play an important social, cultural, and economic role.

The project will pilot a delivery system to collect food from producers and distribute it to strategic points to reach vulnerable groups, allowing them to access high-quality local food at subsidized rates.

This project will plant approximately 80,000 native trees, establish eight community gardens, establish eight tree nurseries, and reduce the impacts of climate change while it provides habitat for wildlife.

The project will focus on recruiting women who identify as socially disadvantaged per the USDA’s definition and veteran farmers and new and beginning farmers. Women technical resource providers will be recruited to train them on how to increase leadership around food and agricultural systems resilience.

This project seeks to train and organize a network of tribal member farmers on regenerative, organic fiber hemp growing. An introduction to fiber hemp class will be taught at the United Tribes Technical College and the Nueta-Hidatsa-Sahnish-college on the Fort Berthold Reservation.

Support for the Women’s Resistance program will provide Indigenous women with the leadership capacity, tools, and resources they need to be influential, respected leaders among their people in the fight to protect their territories and ancestral cultures.

Funding for this project will promote the protection and restoration of Kilum-Ijim forest biodiversity and agroforestry practices that conserve the soil and increase food production around Kilum-Ijim forest peripheries to adapt to climate change.

Support for the Fossey Fund’s work will focus on protecting individual gorillas and their families 365 days a year and conducting the scientific research needed to develop effective conservation strategies.

The goal of this project is to achieve and document success in the conversion of a plot of 156 acres of land in California’s Central Valley in cotton systems to regenerative agriculture practices that build soil health, increase biodiversity, protect water resources, and sequester carbon. These are crop production systems that typically include rotations of tomatoes, wheat, alfalfa, and other food crops.

The main objectives of the Community Baboon Sanctuary project are to protect the interconnected Maya Forest Corridor, implement climate-resilient practices amongst 300 farmers, and engage the seven communities to conserve natural resources.

Throughout this project, Digital Democracy will create a peer-supported network for 12 Indigenous Land Defenders from at least six different communities or Indigenous Nations

This project will preserve the Navajo weaving arts and land-based culture by supporting these critical traditional flocks and through community donations of yarn and fiber.

The goal of this project is to have Emory University phase out the use of herbicides, learning from Indigenous land stewards of the past to implement non-toxic approaches and rewild spaces for future generations.

This project will establish a region for the production of medicinal and aromatic plants in the municipality of Querétaro through agro-ecological practices, which include the traditional knowledge of local communities with restoration and productive approach.

The Laguna San Ignacio Mangrove Restoration Project is currently underway and funding will aid in the planting of up to 20,000 mangrove trees to protect the Laguna San Ignacio from climate change and sea-level rise.

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) has empowered 150,000 women decision-makers in drought-prone Maharashtra, to improve their health and economic well-being with the women-led, climate-resilient farming model.

Meaning ‘The Brave Ones’ in the local Shona dialect, Akashinga is an innovative approach to preserving nature, channeling large portions of conservation budgets into rural community development through the predominant employment and empowerment of women as rangers and scouts

Through this land acquisition project, the Southern Plains Land will expand the Heartland Ranch Nature Preserve in Bent County in southeastern Colorado from 24,774 acres to 42,661 acres.

This project aims to reforest 1,209 square kilometers in south Kivu Province while elevating women’s leadership, focusing on environmental education concerning the protection of old-growth forests and helping the renewal of traditional ecological knowledge.

Wild Earth Allies is partnering with Imbereheza Gahunga to build household rainwater harvest tanks in the foothills of Volcanoes National Park, delivering value for women, their families, and wildlife. The project has created 286 water tanks, providing daily water to 2,101 people.

This project will help the Indigenous women of the Mississippi River Delta restore local ecology, enhance climate resilience in the face of increasing stressors, improve local population health and provide income and greater food security in this region.

The Kenya Women and Forests project in Western Kenya is advancing the restoration and protection of the Kakamega Tropical Rainforest by catalyzing women’s leadership in community forest management.

This project is building a youth tree-growing campaign to train forest-dwelling communities in agroforestry to restore their livelihoods and protect forests, and amplifying communities' critical Indigenous knowledge in forest protection.

This project will support Dr. Alice Karanja's food tree portfolios to help smallholder families in Zambia have year-round access to nutritious foods, diversify their incomes, and boost their resilience to increased prices and climate change.