STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Mission Statement
Strategies for International Development (SID) designs, proves, and promotes better methods for helping farmers increase income and graduate from poverty. This includes reclaiming the land upon which their income depends and ensuring that women participate equally.
About This Cause
The Problem 75% of the world’s poor are small farmers making the transition from subsistence to commercial farming, yet only 15% of poor farmers have any access to technical assistance in doing so. There is little salaried work in rural communities and those who want to stay in their communities, rather than migrate, need to create their own jobs and farming is often their only opportunity. SID focuses on helping indigenous farmers and women, two marginalized groups most affected by rural poverty. SID’s Solution SID provides the assistance farmers need to transition from subsistence to successful commercial farming. We have developed a scalable and replicable model that allows us to provide this assistance to all farmers in a region so they can graduate from poverty. We collaborate with farmers, local leaders and actors to help create sustainable prosperous rural communities in developing countries, where farmers do not need to migrate to cities or other countries in search of employment and a better life. We use and promote a variety of innovative methods to help farmers adopt business as well as better farming practices while also reducing project costs. In addition, equal participation of women is a condition of all of our projects. Lastly, we measure results in terms of increases in farmers’ income and cost-effectiveness as the ratio of the increases in farmer income to project cost. SID’s new innovative regional model partners with municipal leaders and actors and gives all farmers in a region the chance to graduate from poverty. All farmers learn and are encouraged to adopt the practices that increase productivity, price, and income and conserve farmland. In addition, “Leader Communities”, those that select promoters and pay a small fee to them, receive twice-monthly technical assistance in adopting the practices. SID's Results Our expectation is that farmers apply land conservation practices on at least two-thirds of their land and that increases in farmer income during the life of the project are at least five times project costs. We have been successful in meeting the target for land conservation and the ratios of increases in farmer income to costs of our projects have ranged from 4.1 to 8.86.