Global Food Initiative Resources

Stories of your support: Transforming land and people

GFI Newsletter Summer 2024
Greetings from the new manager, second motor for Uganda flour mill
High-resolution GFI summer newsletter (2 MB)

E-News Fall 2023
Ecuador volunteers, dry season agriculture, coffee startup in Mexico, EYN seed company, and more

E-News Summer 2023
GFI 40th anniversary, second chances in Venezuela, dry season vegetable production workshops in the African Great Lakes region, and more

E-News Spring 2023
Thresher fabrication workshop in Nigeria, Arctic gardening, Brethren Global Communion, and more

E-News Fall 2022
Honduras urban chicken farm, review panel changes, and new grants

E-News Summer 2022
Nigeria crop consultation, community gardens in the U.S. and Ecuador, dryland farming workshop in Burundi, and more

E-News Spring 2022
2021 year-end totals, Rwanda field notes, Nigeria conversations beyond soybeans, and New Orleans community gardens

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Videos and Links

July 2023 presentation about FBU, Global Food Initiative’s partner in Ecuador (English captions)

Llano Grande, Ecuador

This video is from the El Mesias congregation in Llano Grande, which is part of the greater Quito urban area. The GFI recently gave a second grant to support an expansion of the church’s community garden through the Fundacion Brethren y Unida (Brethren and United Foundation) in Ecuador. The grant was $8,000 and primarily will be used to build a cistern and install a sprinkler system for irrigation.

“La Chacra” (sometimes written “Chakra”) refers to the typical form of agriculture practiced by the Quichua indigenous peoples of the Andes.

The GFI continues to support Bread for the World with an annual donation on behalf of the denomination.
Fundacion Brethren y Unida organized a “feria” or farmers’ market in the town of Picalqui. Local artisans, food vendors, and farmers were invited to sell their wares with FBU providing the publicity and securing the space for the market. A number of women and youth trained by FBU were able to sell their products directly to customers. GFI grants over the past three years have supported training in organic agricultural techniques as well as value-added food items.

Chef Kevin Belton caught up with local beekeeper, David Young, to see how he turned his home into something sweeter than produce.


Seedworld – Soybean helps rebuild Nigeria

Church of the Brethren and SIL collaborate on a Soybean Production Guide. Read the story here. Get the Soybean Production Guide here.

Read about an EYN soybean value chain learning trip to Ghana in this Soybean Innovation Lab newsletter.

Read an earlier article on this collaboration with the Soybean Innovation Lab (scroll down).

Find out about the 2016 visit to the Soybean Innovation Lab Soybean Management and Appropriate Research & Technology (SMART) farm in Ghana.

David Young of Capstone 118, GFI partner in New Orleans

Pastor Martin Hutchison of Community of Joy Church of the Brethren