Thank you for helping us celebrate our 2014 SRI Rice and Food Security Project for Latin America. This special event was was a great success and a perfect kickoff for the Project. Nicaraguan Fairly Traded Organic Coffee and “Alternative Gift Cards” let many of you share the gift of helping families gain food security and increased incomes by supporting their transition to growing rice using the “The System of Rice Intensification”, SRI.
A special thanks to the Bridging Peace Fund for providing matching funds as well as to Three Americas Inc and several individual donors for making the very generous donations that have made the project financially possible.
The projects partners will include SRI Global Inc, Cornell’s SRI RICE and Earth Links Inc. After finishing his Masters Degree at CATIE University in Costa Rica Jorge Acosta Butriago will be coordinating our collective work which will include developing and identifying SRI training materials, starting demonstration plots with small farmers as well as creating social and popular media. We will provide updates and pictures as the project unfolds.