Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems

Lauren Streib in the Daily Beast reports on the work of Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems (PALMS), they:

Teach women farmers to use basic machinery, like tractors, and crop production will increase. But the effects of the implementation of such technology are revolutionary. The women helped through PALMS have access to knowledge, capital, and technology that allows them to assert power within their families, their communities, and improve the economy of the entire country...[continue reading]