Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Addressing the Issue at the Grass Roots

For CARE, protecting the environment often starts by working with farmers and others whose lives are closely tied to the cycles of the natural world. Through programs that improve agriculture and natural resource management, CARE addresses environmental issues such as poor soil quality, soil erosion, deforestation, pesticide contamination, and inconsistent rainfall. In dealing with concerns like these, CARE helps poor families improve their living conditions while also caring for the environment. Because their ability to grow crops depends on the soil, water, and other elements of nature, when farmers understand how to safeguard the environment, they generally do so, thereby protecting their own livelihoods ...