Helvetas Handeln für eine bessere Welt

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.

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.

Many young people in Nepal have no professional or vocational training and therefore cannot find remunerative employment. Short, practice-oriented training courses and support for setting up their own business helps young people to ...

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 ...

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.

The project called “Samriddhi”, which means ‘prosperity’ in Bangla, contributes to sustainable well-being and resilience of poor and extremely poor households through social and economic empowerment. The project is active in Rajshahi ...

After several years of support, organic and fair cotton production and marketing is well developed in Burkina Faso. Three ongoing projects strengthen the economic and institutional sustainability of the value chain actors and generate ...