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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![Ininew Friendship Centre Executive Director Susan Nelson (left) and Cultural Resource Coordinator Mary Jane Archibald.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/microsoftteams-image5.png.webp?itok=uIj5jFG3)
Planting seeds of hope and empowerment
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![Indigenous Neighbours icon](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Indigenous_Neighbours_Icon_Teal_Circle-50x50.png)
Indigenous Neighbors, Food
+1 more
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Cambodian man in a pink shirt being interviewed](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Cambodia.png.webp?itok=rBaFxZCP)
What can you do with a loan? | Cambodia
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Two different footage side-by-side. The image on the left is man examining crops with three other men. The image on the right is the top a corn stalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MCC%20is%20100.png.webp?itok=Bn17LK1m)
MCC is 100
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Disaster response, Peace
+2 more
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A close up of loaves of bread](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs27010_bih20131105_peacebuilding_ms0060-lpr_0_2.jpg.webp?itok=EwIIGT_L)
'Bread, in God's name, bread'
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Food, Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 8 more
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Media Type
Story
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![A field of corn and maicillo grow side-by-side in field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs104502_20190831_113333-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=U6-VWR-a)
Vivir en armonía
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Climate Change, Food
Location
Honduras
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A screenshot from a video of a Cambodian man and woman holding chickens](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/sustainable.jpg.webp?itok=yBt8JXVv)
Chickens, fish and veggies – a sustainable relationship
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A Cambodian man and woman each hold a chicken. The woman is laughing.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs101768_khm20190322_agriculture_ml0487-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=Ob1PdozM)
Farmers helping farmers
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A protrait of a Cambodian man in a blue button-down shirt and glasses.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs101412_khm20190322_agriculture_ml0004-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=OpdfLfOd)
First person: Tes Sopheat
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Food
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![A Bolivan woman pulls baked goods out of an oven](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/bol20180426_livelihoods_ms0190_web.jpg.webp?itok=rTOXFREJ)
Skills for life
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Food
Location
Bolivia
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![Five people work on digging a garden](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/community_gardening_2.jpg.webp?itok=3AN4zzoK)
Community Gardening Kits
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![Indigenous Neighbours icon](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Indigenous_Neighbours_Icon_Teal_Circle-50x50.png)
Indigenous Neighbors, Food
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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