From the director Since our founding five years ago, East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer has helped put more than 300,000 farmers on a path of growth and positive change. We are confident that once on this path, these farmers continue, step-by-step, to adopt better practices, and the markets that we helped to catalyse continue to grow. We have learned many lessons from these very productive years, and we are now ready to move into the next phase, one in which — funding permitting — we hope to triple the number of farmers we train. With some strategic fine-tuning to our approach, the farmers we work with in this phase will benefit from stronger and more sustainable support networks. Our aim for the coming year is to put in place stronger systems for tracking change, not only of the farmers we are currently working with but also those we have worked with in the past. This heightened emphasis on tracking change will help us better understand their progress, thus enabling us to continue nurturing their technical skills and strengthening their connectivity with agri-input markets and uptake markets. If we are able to steer our approach in this direction, 2021 is destined to be a significant milestone in the story of KT. Wishing you all a safe and a very fulfilling year ahead!
Chiang Mai, January 2021
Stuart Morris / Director, East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer Foundation
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