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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 Livelihood Programme supports rural households in improving their livelihood strategies based on their potentials. Furthermore it aims to reduce their vulnerabilities caused by various factors such as natural disasters.

The Participatory Forest Management Project supports the formation of community forest management groups throughout Bhutan. These groups manage their forests and market forest products to improve their livelihoods.

Forest cover on the mountain ranges in Southern Haiti is below 5% - despite its crucial importance for local farmers and as environmental protection for downhill infrastructures and towns. Municipalities, farmer organisation and ...

The mountain ranges in Eastern Macedonia are a biodiversity hot spot of international importance. National, regional and local institutions are supported to cope with the challenge of conserving this natural richness and at the same ...