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Agriculture & Livelihoods
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5M
Participants
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113
Projects
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47
Countries
About the Program
Pathway to Prosperity
Catholic Relief Services helps millions of smallholder farmers worldwide recover from natural disasters and civil strife, build resilient farming systems, and grow them into agro-enterprises that engage successfully with markets. Our Pathway to Prosperity approach helps farmers build sustainable livelihoods through a phase-by-phase process. We currently have 113 agriculture projects in 47 countries.
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CRS Agriculture and Livelihoods Theory of Change
CRS' agricultural Theory of Change explains how and why a desired change is expected to happen through a project, and how the change is measured. CRS developed this Theory of Change to help teams design and implement projects that focus on a more consistent set of assumptions, and analyze progress using a defined set of metrics.
Building Resilience
CRS has a deep history of building resilience by helping individuals to address the challenges of recurrent shocks and chronic stresses. CRS’ Integral Human Development (IHD) Framework places people at the center of development, promoting a holistic approach to wellbeing that includes multiple human assets, as well as the ways in which people interact with the institutions and systems that impact their lives. Learn more.
Savings and Lending Groups
An integral part of our agricultural development programs is to help farmers organize into savings groups where they can pool their money and borrow from each other. This enables them to buy seeds, equipment and other assets they need to build successful businesses. To date, savings groups organized by CRS have saved almost $23 million through more than 196,000 groups in 60 countries, benefitting nearly five million beneficiaries worldwide.
CRS Agriculture
Through funding from the United States Department of Agriculture McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition and Food for Progress Programs, Catholic Relief Services leads effective education and agricultural development projects to build strong, resilient futures among the world’s most vulnerable people. Together, through school feeding, quality education, and improved livelihoods of smallholder farming families, USDA and CRS are committed to building opportunities and ending hunger among those we serve.
Program Subsectors

Climate Change and Agriculture
CRS serves farming communities and families most vulnerable to economic shocks, natural disasters, and conflicts.
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Market Systems
This programming is committed to a triple bottom line that prioritizes people, the planet and profit.
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Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture rebuilds and protects soil so that it can continue to be productive.
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Resilience and Food Security
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Where We Work
Explore the regions where CRS is transforming lives through your generosity. From Africa to Latin America, discover stories of hope and resilience across the globe.
Impact Stories
Explore Our Projects

Restoring The Río Lempa
The Río Lempa program focuses on conservation to protect a watershed that supplies nearly 70% of El Salvador's water, supporting millions of people and various sectors.
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The Supporting Seed Systems for Development (S34D) project was implemented from 2018 through 2023 and documented efforts to support farmers to access quality seed of modern varieties from pluralistic, functional and sustainable seed systems. The research and documentation published here may be used freely in support of seed systems around the world.
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FASTER
The Faith-Based Action for Scaling Up Testing and Treatment for Epidemic Response project, or FASTER, mobilizes partners in government, civil society and faith-based organizations to catalyze progress toward achieving viral suppression with children and adolescents.
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Uganda Vanilla Project: VINES
Vines is a five-year USDA-funded Food for Progress project designed to make Uganda the world’s next leading supplier of high-quality vanilla, increasing exports from 50 Metric Tonnes (MT) to 350MT per year by 2025.
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The SPICES Program: Supporting Farmers in Madagascar
The SPICES (Securing and Protecting Investments and Capacities for Environmental Sustainability) program
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Long Term Food Security and Resilience in Uganda
Catholic Relief Services is leading a consortium to build resilience to shocks, enhance livelihoods and improve food and nutrition security.
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Girma: Long-term Food Security, Improved Nutrition & Resilience in Niger
With support from the USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), CRS is implementing the Girma project, designed to improve and sustain food and nutrition security and resilience among extremely vulnerable and very vulnerable households and communities in Niger.
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Long Term Food Security & Resilience in Madagascar
CRS currently leads the Harea (Malagasy for abundance) Resilience Food Security Activity designed to sustainably enhance productive livelihoods of more than 54,000 poor and marginalized households in southern Madagascar.
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Emergency Long Term Food Security and Resilience in Ethiopia
CRS in Ethiopia is implementing the Ifaa program (“light” in Afaan Oromo) to brighten the future for poor communities in Oromia by reducing intractable poverty, vulnerability, and food insecurity. Building on experience from the previous CRS-led Development Food Security Activity, CRS will continue to lead a consortium of specialized local and international partners to deliver high-quality services.
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Emergency Long Term Food Security and Resilience in Budikadidi DRC
CRS is implementing the Tudituale ("Let’s be self-reliant" in the local language of Tshiluba) program engages with community, public and private sector stakeholders to address the root causes of food, nutrition and economic insecurity.
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SMART Skills for Smallholder Farmers
Research shows that farmers need a set of five core skills in order to connect effectively and sustainably to markets. We strengthen these skills through our SMART Skills curriculum.
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The Resilience through Enhanced Adaptation, Action-learning and Partnership Activity (REAAP)
This is a 3-year project led by Catholic Relief Services and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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