Heidi Kuhn’s selection as the 2023 World Food Prize Laureate was announced by US Ambassador Terry Branstad (@TerryBranstad), World Food Prize Foundation President, at a ceremony in Washington DC this morning. #RootsofPeace #Heidikuhn #WorldFoodPrize #TerryBranstad

A Message from Founder and CEO Heidi Kuhn, the winner of the 2023 World Food Prize (@WorldFoodPrize). #RootsofPeace #HeidiKuhn #WorldFoodPrize #2023WorldFoodPrize

RT @StateDept: Congratulations to 2023 @WorldFoodPrize Laureate Heidi Kuhn of the United States. For more than two decades, she has shown m….

We're overjoyed to announce that founder and CEO Heidi Kuhn has been awarded the 2023 World Food Prize (@WorldFoodPrize) for her leadership in restoring agriculture to de-mined land in former war zones across the world. 🤩🌿🌾. #rootsofpeace #heidikuhn #worldfoodprize

RT @WorldFoodPrize: Congratulations to the 2023 World Food Prize Laureate, Heidi Kühn of the United States!. Kühn will receive the World Fo….

This is ‘how’ Roots of Peace adheres to the strict new laws, yet is still able to work beyond the walls to empower Afghan women to feed their families with dignity.

Now Farziah has hired 11 other women from her village to help her keep up with orders. With more and more women now working from home, Farziah is working to create a group of household producers so that women can share know-how and resources.

Roots of Peace needs to ramp up our efforts to support these communities with relief as they brace for a second year of drought and food shortages, while working to sustain livelihoods that are so important for families and entire communities.

Without seeds in the ground, there will be no harvest in spring and summer, creating a real risk of famine across Afghanistan, where nearly 23 million people are already unable to feed themselves every day.

Millions of families rely on farming, but many lost last year’s crops to the severe drought, leaving them without grain to get through the harsh winter or seeds to sow in the fields.

Food shortages escalate as Afghan fields remain bare, and women must find innovative solutions to feed their husbands and children.

We also provided access to our online training programs so that she could learn more about food safety, accounting and other subjects essential for an aspiring entrepreneur.

Our USAID funded Agriculture Marketing Program (AMP) recently provided Farziah with improved processing equipment so that she could boost her output. #AfghanWomen #Afghan #Afghanistan.

But due to lack of facilities and equipment, her business never got the jump-start it needed to go to the next level.

BEYOND THE WALLS💫. Afghan women know how to make the most of limited resources. In conservative Kandahar Province, Farziah has been making jam and pickles for several years out of her home and selling them in the local market.

The trainings reduced losses from codling moth to less than 10% while improving overall yields by over 50%. 📈.

Codling moth were destroying 90% of apple production in Afghanistan and the farmers and technicians had no solution. 🍎. Our team introduced inputs and a training program to combat codling moth while also providing trainings on best practices.

USAID's Agriculture Marketing Program (AMP), implemented by Roots of Peace, provides grants and incentives that give Afghan agribusinesses room to grow.

RT @legaciesofwar: "Land mines are an abomination,a cancer waiting in the earth," @Heidi_Kuhn"The only solution is removal. And from there,….

Our international effort to turn MINES TO VINES continues to ‘take root’, as the Irish Times pick up the article from Wine Searcher based in Australia. Together, may we plant the Roots of Peace in Ukraine and worldwide.