Our partner, the University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries. The Feed the Future...
By Amanda Teppo, BOMA Project Intern Each moment is a chance to make history. At the BOMA Project, participants in our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) are not only breaking the cycle of extreme poverty but driving social change as well. A new market, only 4...
Writing in the New York Times this week, Somini Sengupta highlights the escalating crisis in some of the world’s driest regions. Climate change is resulting in a “new normal” for people living in the remote arid regions of eastern Africa. Droughts have always been a...
Nick Kristof, in his January 6 column in the New York Times, shared his optimistic view that 2017 was the best year ever. We agree. Even in the face of climate change, global conflict and stories of famine and natural disasters, we see profound positive change in the...
That’s a headline (The Guardian) that shouldn’t even exist in the year 2017. And yet climate change is putting severe pressure on already struggling populations, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable: women and children. BOMA’s program helps women...
The BOMA Project has been named one of 17 “Lighthouse Activities” worldwide by the United Nation’s Momentum for Change initiative. The winners will be honored at a November 20 ceremony in Warsaw, Poland during the UN’s annual climate-change conference. “These...
