From the Ground Up

• Women of Afghanistan
  
  05/12/2011
  The women of Afghanistan are becoming independent leaders, businesswomen and are helping to pull their families out of poverty.
• In His Own Words
  
  04/27/2011
  Follow Indiana farmer, Kip Tom, as he experiences the front lines of food insecurity firsthand and witnesses how much American farmers can accomplish with a simple bag of grain.
• From the Ground Up: Before and After
  
  04/20/2011
  In late March, a delegation of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the World Food Programme and the Farm Journal Foundation, traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq to see firsthand the devastation and subsequent renewal facing these regions.
• Farmers Travel to Afghanistan
  
  04/19/2011
  Farm Journal Foundation board members travel to Afghanistan to witness the steps being taken to address food insecurity.
• The First Day and the Last Day
  
  04/17/2011
  The delegation visited a school that is part of the World Food Programme’s Red Cup initiative, spent time with producers across the region, learned about the agriculture of Afghanistan and Iraq and met with several Afghan entrepreneurs. They also had once in a lifetime experiences like flying in a black hawk helicopter over the Himalayan mountains and driving a plow behind oxen. Read this broad overview of the trip.