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- Struggling smallholder farmers to improve their harvests and incomes<
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- Communities without electricity or clean cooking to access these life-changing essentials
- People threatened by climate change to adapt their lives and cope with disasters
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We develop, refine and improve these solutions in our community projects and then, through our publishing and advisory services, share them freely and widely with other development groups, governments and companies.

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