A second grant of $700,000 from the Walmart Foundation will allow EARTH Futures to expand the Resilient Communities Food Systems program in Costa Rica and Guatemala for two more years.
Rural empowerment in Costa Rica and Guatemala Read More »
EARTH opened its doors for the first time in 1990 to 51 new students from seven countries. Full of dreams and goals, they began their advancement at our University and left a legacy that today’s students continue with pride and conviction…
32 years of legacy Read More »
Valodia Flores (Class of 2009, Nicaragua) was named in 2021 by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most influential women in Central America. Along with achieving personal success, she has benefited 16 individuals and families by creating a business network of partners…
Valodia Flores: the face of collective success Read More »
Yohannes Bimrew Simegn (Class of 2025, Ethiopia), a Mastercard Foundation scholarship recipient, is many things at once: an inventor, a dreamer, and a determined and curious person constantly seeking to innovate and improve the world. He grew up in Gojam, a rural community in Ethiopia with minimal modern technology, where agriculture is the primary source of income…
Yohannes Bimrew Simegn: A man who fights for the common good Read More »
A 2007 donation from USAID’s American Hospitals and Schools Abroad (ASHA) program created EARTH’s dairy plant. It is a place that encourages experiential learning and produces the best quality dairy products for the university’s internal consumption.
A dairy plant for experiential learning Read More »
As executive director of EARTH Futures, Emily Fintel Kaiser works each and every day studying and upscaling solutions that improve agricultural sustainability and life quality in rural areas. In this eye-opening interview, she explains how EARTH Futures is magnifying the University’s impact.
EARTH Futures: Working to change the world Read More »
Our Class of 2021 recently returned from 15-week professional internships around the world. Fourth-year students Zakeyu Tawonga (Malawi), Ana Marian González (Nicaragua), and Usman Mohammed (Nigeria) feel inspired to get to work in their home countries after transformative experiences in Malawi, Brazil, and the USA.
Three students reflect on their international internships Read More »
Since 2007, the United Nations declared that every October 15 is a day to remember the essential role of rural women. The day honors women who farm, take care of their homes, and fight for their communities’ food security. Besides all this, they face daily challenges where they must do everything possible to achieve inclusion, eradicate poverty, and empower and educate themselves in a world that has often closed doors to them…
Rural women breaking stigmas Read More »
Ana Giselle Muñoz is an entrepreneur from Río Montaña, an isolated community where fertile land abounds. She and her family participate in an innovative project – led by EARTH Futures and the CRUSA Foundation – that increases agricultural efficiency, widens market access, and enhances life quality for corn farmers in Guanacaste, Costa Rica…
Her path to entrepreneurship is paved with heirloom corn Read More »
“Corn, as a basic ingredient, comes with many stories. The legend says that the Chorotega people come from maize kernels and that an indigenous woman running through the middle of the cornfield was pricked by a thorn, and drops of her blood fell on the crop, thus painting the maize in different colors.”
The Pujagua (“Purple Corn”) Route Read More »
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