Volunteer Professor Harouna Maiga met with pig farmers last September to introduce cassava plant residue to silage. Five months later in February, volunteer Konimba Bengaly visited pig farmers in the... Read More
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Helping Students Become Livestock Entrepreneurs
In November, volunteer Diego Calderon discussed skills to improve the overall health of rudimentary livestock with students of the Bougouni Farmers’ Cooperative and Agro-Pastoral Training Center of Bougouni. During the... Read More
Increasing Pig Farming Profitability with Cassava Residue
Last September volunteer, Professor Harouna Maiga of the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus, visited Mali to meet with local agriculture agents to better understand the practices of pig farmers in... Read More
A Volunteer Describes the “True Mali Experience”
During her time in Mali as a Common Pastures volunteer through Winrock International, Mitchelle Olumide Makanjuola had a chance to visit the indigo making cooperative in Ségou, Mali with country... Read More
Helping Women and Youth Build Strong Businesses
In Mali, one of the largest barriers to women and youth employment is the lack of confidence, poor knowledge and skill base to identify business opportunities, draft a business plan,... Read More
Increasing Women’s Income Generation through Improved Small Ruminant Feeding and Nutrition
This past March, Common Pastures volunteer Andres F. Cibils worked with the Women’s Association of Tiby2 in Mali, West Africa, through Winrock International, to assess and provide technical training in sheep feeding methods... Read More
Goat Bridges the Cultural Divide
Guest post by Peter Saling, Associate Director, Agriculture & Volunteer Programs, Winrock International The mission of Winrock International’s agriculture unit is to develop partnerships, pilot new ideas, and advance solutions... Read More
Preventing parasitic diseases in small ruminants
This past July, Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Daniel K. Miller visited Mali, including one village in Katibougou (Katibougou Village) and four in the Bougouni area (Bougouni Village, Solla-Bougouda, Toula and Kle Sokoro).... Read More
Dogon people of Mali: Part 4
Crocodiles play an important role in the villages of Dogon country that have surface water, including Borko. As the story goes, an ancestor of Kassambara was traveling through Mali... Read More
Dogon people of Mali: Part 3
This is part three of a four-part blog series on the Dogon People of Mali, West Africa. • Read Part 1 • Read Part 2 Dogon rock paintings For... Read More
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