Causes: International, International Relief

Mission: Groundswell International contributes to the global movement to overcome poverty, inequality and ecological destruction by supporting community-based organizations to work together to improve wellbeing, spread lasting solutions and engage in wider coalitions for change.

Programs: West africa -- together with partner organizations in burkina faso, ghana, and mali, groundswell continued implementing a long-term program to improve community resilience, farmer livelihoods, and environmental stewardship by fostering the spread of farmer managed natural regeneration of trees (or fmnr) and other locally adapted ecological farming practices. The program in west africa is also strengthening and amplifying existing farmer and women-led initiatives and organizations in order to spread ecological farming systems, reinforce movements for food sovereignty, and work for enabling policies. This work benefitted more than 176,000 rural people in 2014.

burkina faso -- groundswell works with the burkinabe non-governmental organization association nourrir sans detruire (ansd) to improve the lives of thousands of farm families living in eastern burkina faso by spreading practical ecological farming methods as well as sustainable livelihood solutions. In addition to working with ansd on the regional initiative described above, groundswell and ansd are working together on an action-research project designed to study and implement farmer-led innovat

ghana -- the center for indigenous knowledge and organizational development (cikod) is groundswell's ghanaian partner organization in the west african regional program. We are working together to address the soil and food crisis in ghana by spreading the adoption of fmnr and complementary ecological farming practices that are improving rural livelihoods and food security through increases in food and fuel wood production, increased abundance of fodder for livestock and access to natural resource