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January 8, 2011
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Homestead Gardening
This manual includes programming and gardening tips to improve the implementation of homestead gardens. The manual offers lessons learned from implementing homestead gardening...More
July 6, 2021
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Garden Toolkit
Gardening is a widely implemented intervention in development programming that can deliver positive results in nutrition, agricultural income and women’s empowerment. In Ethiopia...More
June 16, 2022
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Garden Resource Guide
Successful and sustainable garden interventions require expertise from many sectors. The Garden Resource Guide, one resource within CRS’ Garden Toolkit, brings this knowledge...More
October 19, 2012
Keyhole Garden Grows Nutrition, Prosperity
Darou Abdulmalik is doing something remarkable with help from something remarkably simple. She is feeding her family of 11 in Sudan with the nutritious vegetables she grows at home in Kulbus, West Darfur—in a 6-foot diameter plot called a keyhole garden.
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September 24, 2012
Keyhole Gardens Unlock Healthy Diets
They are such simple things—variations on the type of small vegetable plots many of us have in our own backyards—yet keyhole gardens are having a profound effect on the lives of people in Lesotho, a small nation that's an "island" in the middle of South Africa.
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January 23, 2017
Transforming Lives in Ethiopia with Gardens and Savings
Ethiopia is in the midst of its worst drought in 50 years, putting more than 10 million people at risk for starvation. Prolonged drought, erratic rainfall and land degradation are posing challenges that have pushed people to the edge.
February 1, 2023
New Gardening Techniques Buoy Indonesian Families
Demonstration plots and kitchen gardens offer a sustainable food source for home use and income through sales of surplus produce.
April 28, 2020
Home gardens support good nutrition: Megha’s Story
With an innovative solution, CRS provides the tools to combat hunger and malnutrition, so communities can become more resilient in a changing climate.
March 9, 2017
Research›Case Studies
To Consume or to Sell
The purpose of the study was to learn more about the ways that program beneficiaries use home garden produce to promote household nutrition. Through focus group discussions and...More
May 27, 2022
Niger Youth Program Launches Work Opportunities
The project helps budding entrepreneurs learn skills as they build their own businesses and increase their income.
