Helvetas Handeln für eine bessere Welt

The project called CONCERTAR deals with the management of water resources for agricultural production in 150 Bolivian municipalities, covering 45% of Bolivia. Since 2007, it supports local actors to establish agreements amongst ...

The small farmers of the Bolivian highlands have a subsistence livelihood. Their living conditions are becoming harder due to the growing shortage of water. Local knowledge combined with improved practices are the first step in ...

The number of landless and land-poor people in Nepal is high and increasing. The main objective of this project is to raise the income of these households. They are supported to engage in horticulture cultivation on the common lands ...

Cactus pears (Beles) require little water and grow very well even in arid areas. Nevertheless, little use has been made of them until now. Yet this undemanding plant has a lot more to offer.

Education helps people to move out of poverty. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is working with the relevant authorities to improve secondary education and is campaigning for more young people to receive practical vocational training ...

The deforestation of hillsides in central Afghanistan is destroying the very basis of local livelihoods. Large quantities of wood are required if every family bakes its own bread. The community bakeries introduced by Helvetas Swiss ...

The Swiss eat 12 kilos of chocolate per year, of which only 60g are Fairtrade. Helvetas is striving to raise this share and advises cocoa farmers in Honduras on how to sell their crop for a fair price.

It isn’t just a drop in the ocean. In Kyrgyzstan, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation has been broadening people’s knowledge about agriculture and helping farmers to introduce water-saving irrigation techniques, increasing productivity ...

The Local Market Development project focuses on value chain development in fruit and vegetable production and processing in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The project works as a facilitator along the value chain “Farmer Groups – ...

Small-scale farmers in Mozambique have trouble storing their grains. As pests cause serious post-harvest losses, farmers suffer from hunger between harvests. Small, simple-to-build grain storage facilities are part of the answer.