International Projects

Crossroads International

• Capacity Building to Improve Food Security & Develop Sustainable Livelihoods

  Fund: Theme Fund | Country: Niger | Amount: $15,228 | Funded in 2010/2011

  CCI, in its Capacity Building to Improve Food Security & Develop Sustainable Livelihoods project, is partnering in Niger with Potal Women’s Cooperative. Women producers and artisans will acquire relevant skills and knowledge to improve food security by increasing yields from a communal dry-season irrigated market garden and develop livelihoods by establishing a formal collective enterprise producing artisanal wares.

• Conservation & Transformation of Garden Produce

  Fund: Development Fund | Country: Niger | Amount: $1,536 | Funded in 2010/2011

  The Conservation & Transformation of Garden Produce project will support the training of three groups of women gardeners in Niger, enabling them to make better use of what they grow in their collective garden sites, and thereby contributing to their food security.

• Feasibility Study of Fair Trade Agricultural Products

  Fund: Development Fund | Country: Bolivia | Amount: $1,608 | Funded in 2008/2009

  CCI’s Bolivian partner organization, FONCRESOL, provides training and microcredit to rural producers. This project explores the opportunities and implications for small agricultural producers to increase their markets by adopting Fair Trade practices.