Groundswell International Inc

a practical approach that builds participants capacities to experiment with ecological farming strategies, spread effective solutions, and develop complementary strategies to meet their basic needs and lead ongoing processes to improve human and social wellbeing and environmental regeneration. While programming in each region, as well as at the country level, is designed to respond to the local context, Groundswell programs everywhere: -Work with farmer leaders to test and adopt agroecological methods and spread them to more people through farmer-to-farmer training, allowing these farmers to produce more healthy food and restore hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded land. -Empower women farmers to participate in savings and credit groups, improve ecological

production, gain access to productive assets, and diversify their livelihoods, which in turn improves their families food security, incomes, and resilience. -Strengthen local markets and increase farmers incomes through savings and credit groups and community-based agricultural enterprises that add value to locally grown crops. -Nourish vulnerable families by explicitly integrating gender equity and nutrition into agricultural programs. Our holistic approach links agroecological farming to family nutrition. -Support citizens to engage with local decision-makers on enabling local policies and produce influential case studies, policy briefs, and impact reports based on learning across our network, to share with other stakeholders to expedite the necessary transition to agroecology. West Africa -- We continued to work with our partners Agrecol Afrique in Senegal; Association Nourrir Sans Detruire (ANSD) in Burkina Faso; the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) in Ghana; and Sahel Eco in Mali. Our West Africa program focuses on supporting dryland farming households to transition from conventional agriculture to agroecological and regenerative farming and food systems that allow them to mitigate and adapt to climate change; strengthen local management of biodiversity; and generate nature-based solutions to increase food security and incomes. In 2024, across these four Sahelian countries, Groundswell- supported programs that engaged 89,809 smallholder farmers through cascading, farmer-to-farmer training; contributed to regenerating 223,213 hectares of land; and programs benefitted 892,074 people. Latin America and the Caribbean - In 2024, we worked with partners EkoRural in Ecuador; Partenariat pour le Developpement Local (PDL) in Haiti; Qachuu Aloom and Asociacion Comunitaria Flor del Cafe aldea El Durazno in Guatemala; and Asociacion de Comites Ecologicos del Sur del Honduras (ACESH) and Vecinos Honduras. In these five countries, in 2024, we supported 12,907 smallholder farmers to improve their farming, create sustainable rural livelihoods, and strengthen their communities resilience. Groundswell programs with partners in the region benefitted 98,410 people (about the seating capacity of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) and helped regenerate 4,474 hectares of land. South Asia -- We worked with our partner Boudha Bahanupati Project (BBP) - Pariwar and the Rural Womens Upliftment Association (RWUA) in Nepal to create or strengthen 94 savings and credit groups with 2,320 members; train 1,607 smallholder farmers in agroecological farming practices to improve production and food security; and distributed87 goats and milking buffalos to rural women, who will pass on the animals offspring to other women in the future to spread benefits. In India, the Preservation and Proliferation of Rural Resources and Nature (PRAN) in Bihar, India, trained 308 smallholder farmers in agroecological farming practices and organized women into two new community groups. Collectively, Groundswell-support programs in the South Asia region benefited 205,543 people, regenerated 713 hectares of land across 85 communities, and the saving and credit groups accumulated $21,005 USD in assets.