Haiti: A report on the findings of the rapid seed assessment conducted by CRS between Febuary 12 and March 1, 2010.

A new Learning Alliance on integrated water resource management (IWRM) will launch later this year, linked to the Global Water Initiative (GWI) project and focused on multiple uses of water, to foster a community of practice and build capacity in CRS staff and partner institutions.

CRS staff and partners worked with farmers and other stakeholders in Africa, India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia over the last five years to develop agricultural business enterprises.

Documents CRS’ experience with an agroenterprise “learning alliance”—a participatory approach to learning that aims to accelerate institutional change and deepen the level of impact.

Catholic Relief Services has debuted a new agricultural programming strategy that links farming with other efforts in emergency response, health, water, sanitation and nutrition. The new approach also makes linkages to natural resource management, climate change adaptation,  microfinance, knowledge management and communication technologies.

Lays out the principles that will guide CRS’ support to poor, rural, agricultural communities over the next five years and sets new goals for our work in urban and peri-urban areas.

Lays the groundwork for rural agroenterprise projects by leading service providers through an asset-based analysis of the area where a project takes place, a social profile analysis of the client group(s), and the establishment of an agroenterprise working group.