How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income

Programs begin with a practical agricultural resource, such as livestock or crops, and continue with training so participants can build a business and reach markets.

Heifer International works to end hunger and poverty by investing alongside farmers and their communities.

The organization says families who earn a more reliable income can then strengthen the next generation. Heifer describes its focus areas as work and income, food security, women and inclusion, climate and the environment, and health. It works with smallholder farmers in a set of countries and presents agriculture as the starting point for lasting change.

Heifer International presents this as ongoing work rather than a single event. The public category Looty Foundation uses, Hunger & Food Assistance, is a browsing label. It is not a substitute for the organization's own account of who it serves and how.

Programs begin with a practical agricultural resource, such as livestock or crops, and continue with training so participants can build a business and reach markets. That is point 1 in the public account behind “How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income.” It describes Heifer International’s own work on end hunger and poverty via livestock, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about hunger & food assistance.

Heifer International works to end hunger and poverty by investing alongside farmers and their communities. That is point 2 in the public account behind “How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income.” It describes Heifer International’s own work on end hunger and poverty via livestock, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about hunger & food assistance.

Programs begin with a practical agricultural resource, such as livestock or crops, and continue with training so participants can build a business and reach markets. That is point 3 in the public account behind “How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income.” It describes Heifer International’s own work on end hunger and poverty via livestock, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about hunger & food assistance.

The organization says families who earn a more reliable income can then strengthen the next generation. That is point 4 in the public account behind “How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income.” It describes Heifer International’s own work on end hunger and poverty via livestock, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about hunger & food assistance.

Heifer describes its focus areas as work and income, food security, women and inclusion, climate and the environment, and health. That is point 5 in the public account behind “How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income.” It describes Heifer International’s own work on end hunger and poverty via livestock, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about hunger & food assistance.

It works with smallholder farmers in a set of countries and presents agriculture as the starting point for lasting change. That is point 6 in the public account behind “How Heifer describes farming, food security, and a more reliable income.” It describes Heifer International’s own work on end hunger and poverty via livestock, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about hunger & food assistance.

The details above are drawn from Heifer International's public materials, then retold here. They are not a financial audit, a ranking, or a promise about results the organization has not published on the pages used for this article.

For Heifer International’s own wording, use the official website linked from its Looty Foundation profile. This page explains the work in the Foundation directory and points back to that profile and to the other two articles about the same organization.