Partnerships

In 2022, East-West Seed increased its financial investment to support EWS-KT’s global partnerships and programs. In addition to expanding our field-based farmer training, this capital enabled us to boost women and youth participation, strengthen our data tracking systems, enhance our digital learning infrastructure, and initiate action research on climate-resilient agricultural approaches. Investing in women, youth, and technology secures sustainable livelihoods and nutritious food systems for the future.

To reach more farmers, EWS-KT invites co-investment and collaborates programmatically with the public and private sectors. We partner with data and technology companies, agricultural research institutes, governments, multilateral organizations, and other private companies to strengthen our value proposition.

Our co-creative approach is tailored to each partner, and we welcome both financial investment and complementary skill sets such as community mobilization, financial access, conflict sensitivity analysis, and youth and gender inclusion.

The larger issues that EWS-KT addresses—climate change, food systems, livelihood development, nutritional security—cannot be solved by just one organization. They require us to act together, across the public and private sectors, to achieve meaningful impact at scale.

Partner Spotlight: World Vegetable Center

With support from the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg), EWS-KT is training smallholder farmers in Cambodia to adopt off-season vegetable production methods. This approach enables a yearround supply of fresh vegetables for local consumers, positively impacting food and nutritional security, and advances women’s leadership in areas in need of economic development. Together, EWS-KT and WorldVeg are on track to improve the livelihoods of over 35,000 households in Cambodia over a 3-year period.

We were looking for a partner that had solid technical expertise, strong resources to effectively reach farmers, and an aligned mission to put farmers at the center of any intervention. EWS-KT is a natural partner for this project as their work combines sound technical know-how with catalyzing sustainable solutions to enhance food security and nutrition.

Dr. Srinivasan Ramasamy, Flagship Program Leader for Safe and Sustainable Value Chains & Lead Entomologist, WorldVeg