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Center for Agriculture & Food Security
Convoy of Hope is passionate about equipping vulnerable individuals, families, and communities with the agricultural education, tools, and seeds they need to produce life-sustaining crops. When we give people the ability of knowing exactly where their next meal is coming from, it opens doors to the future — to freedom. Independence. Resilience. Peace.
To date, more than 110,000 individuals around the world have been resourced with education, tools, and one-on-one coaching through Convoy of Hope’s Agriculture initiative. Now, we have the opportunity to significantly expand our work to meet the rising worldwide need for food security.
Partners
Just a few of our outstanding partners:
“Convoy of Hope has always been dedicated to providing food solutions in challenging situations, and this center will help us do that better than ever before. We are equipped to be on the front lines of innovative solutions to change the world.”
Senior Director, Center for Agriculture & Food Security
Publications, Resources & Stories
The Center for Agriculture & Food Security is committed to bringing science to the people and people to the science. Our publications and resources are an integral tool in this process.
Publications
Education at the Center for Agriculture & Food Security …
- • Increases Convoy of Hope’s capacity and expertise.
- • Accelerates the organization’s progress toward feeding more children and helping more farmers every year.
- • Serves as one of the nation’s most reputable agricultural education training and coaching centers.
- • Showcases farming techniques to help partners catch the vision behind Convoy of Hope’s Agriculture program.
- • Provides resources to assist local churches and communities with agriculture-related questions or issues.
- • Paves the way for building regional agriculture centers around the world.
- • Aids in the creation and implementation of novel training techniques.
- • Contributes exemplary applied research — often alongside collaborators — that will advance agricultural science and innovation.
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CAFS
Growing Out
of Poverty Through Agricultural Education
The Center for Agriculture & Food Security will exponentially increase Convoy of Hope’s capacity to train and resource people in need. Our goal is to help 100,000 farmers annually by the year 2030.
We hope the center serves as a beacon of hope to participants in the Agriculture initiative — becoming a place of training, demonstration, collaboration, and innovative problem-solving.
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Stories
Realtime Environmental Conditions at the CAFS Weather Station
The University of Missouri Extension has set up weather stations at numerous locations around the state of Missouri, including one at Convoy of Hope’s Center for Agriculture and Food Security. For modern farming to work well, it’s crucial to track weather events that happen before and during farming. This weather station is connected to the National Weather Service and helps Convoy of Hope and our local farming community monitor environmental conditions.
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