On his most recent trip to East Africa, Director of Investments James Noronha recorded a quick video of a thriving chicken operation in southern Zambia where our funding community you’ve had a big impact...

“Shortly after the fine was reduced, I was invited to a party. I’ve lived in Kyrgyzstan for ten years but I didn’t really get the significance of the event until the host gathered his guests and shared his story,” Micah said. “The man explained he had barely escaped a near-fatal car accident weeks prior..."

After this crop, the funds will be recycled for future crops, with the profit going to sustain apprentice tuition and expenses. Thank you for investing in sustainable farm development projects like these!

The young farmer was kind enough to host our team for tea in his home (his mother’s baking was delicious), and then he gave us a tour of his ag business outside the ancient city of Samarkand.

On a visit to our partners in Zambia, Heartlands, and their beautiful discipleship and agricultural training school called Ebenezer, we noticed some of the students swatting and throwing rocks at something in the main hen house.

On a farm outside the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, men are finding Kingdom hope through farm work as they struggle to overcome addictions and rebuild their life…

The initial fine was for $1.5 million, a staggering amount that no government official was able to fully explain or justify. The tax would have meant shutting down operations…

“He was our first broiler farmer in Zambia, and he has been very successful. Farmer Dennis helped show people this is all very possible, and their life can get better.” — Paul, Hamara Heartlands’ field staff

Working closely with farmers and ag businesses mean our mostly-volunteer team is often traveling! Ag development requires trust, which means spending time together in-person as often as we can.

A small team recently visited two key partners in the Republic of Georgia and Kyrgyzstan.

While not a common question in the investment world, it’s one our community of impact investors asks often because we’ve seen what even a very small portion of our investments can do to support Kingdom renewal in chronically-underserved parts of the world.

Special thanks to the C Fund investors, who have had a tremendous impact in the lives of farmers in East Africa, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.

At AgGrandize, our Scout team finds excellent people to invest in, but we keep to a specific investment focus: using the C Fund to provide commodity loans.

That leaves many excellent opportunities out of our scope, but some of these businesses are just as strong as those we invest in. I’d like to present five opportunities that we appreciated visiting, to give you the chance to invest directly…

We start every month by focusing on a farmer around the world. Check previous Farmer Firsts you may have missed here, and this month we’re happy to introduce you to a farmer from the Republic of Georgia named George.

Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, and what next?

Instant online access makes the world’s conflicts feel so immediate and overwhelming…but that doesn’t mean we can’t be actively preparing for them—we've been doing it for years!

Our friends at Oasis Agro are requesting your help.

Oasis Agro’s growth and regional success has caught the attention of competitors, and these rivals have shown they’re willing to play dirty. Take two minutes to hear specifics from the Oasis Agro director, Micah Lund, and how you can push back against the corruption, break-ins, and dirty tactics by helping these portfolio partners fulfill their promise to farmers.

The European and North American workforce loves coffee, no secret there, but do they love the coffee farmers, too? Historically, the honest answer to that would be…

After an exciting season of growth and success, Oasis Agro—a feed company our community supports in Kyrgyzstan—is facing attacks by corrupt opposition.