Keurig Green Mountain has a goal to engage one million people in its supply chain to significantly improve livelihoods by 2020. To read the full Thins Months Revisited report, please visit www.AfterTheHarvest.org .
About the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Working with partners across the developing world, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) – a member of the CGIAR Consortium – develops technologies, methods, and new knowledge that better enable farmers, especially smallholders, to enhance eco-efficiency in agriculture – that is, make production competitive and profitable as well as sustainable and resilient through economically and ecologically sound use of natural resources and purchased inputs.
With headquarters near Cali, Colombia, CIAT conducts research for development in tropical regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. www.ciat.cgiar.org . CIAT is lead center for the program on CGIAR Research Program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which helps smallholders adapt to and mitigate the effects of rising temperatures and increasingly unpredictable rains. www.ccafs.cgiar.org
About the Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group (ARLG)
The Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group (ARLG) is a research group within the Department of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. ARLG research and teaching efforts focus on developing and applying transdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions among agriculture, livelihoods, and environmental conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes.
Most of this work also utilizes a Participatory Action Research approach (PAR), in an effort to directly support conservation and rural development. For more information visit: http://www.uvm.edu/~agroecol/.
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