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Nuru Nuru envisions a world without cycles of unjust poverty where resilience and hope are cultivated in the most marginalized communities.

Having secure access to food and nutrition is a key aspect of climate adaptation. 🌱🍽️Nuru equips farmers to access highe...
10/13/2026

Having secure access to food and nutrition is a key aspect of climate adaptation. 🌱🍽️

Nuru equips farmers to access higher protein and more diverse foods through the inclusion of livestock in livelihoods, permagarden training, and the introduction of high nutrition crops, like legumes.

Aside from being climate-resilient, the humble mung bean is a nutrient-dense crop: 🫘 One hundred grams of mung beans con...
10/08/2026

Aside from being climate-resilient, the humble mung bean is a nutrient-dense crop:

🫘 One hundred grams of mung beans contains 23 g of protein and other valuable nutrients (USDA)

🌱 They contain vitamins–like vitamin B6, K, and folate–and minerals–calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium

🥣 Expecting mothers can benefit from mung beans because of their high folate levels, a nutrient vital to the healthy growth of a fetus

Nuru Ethiopia introduced mung beans as a higher-value cash crop to Nuru farmer cooperative members because it can support soil health, increase incomes, and improve nutrition.

This crop can support food security for Nuru Ethiopia farmers, providing essential dietary nutrients and quality protein to those who have otherwise had limited access to them.

Climate action is about changing the way we farm.Nuru uses soil testing to help farmers apply the right amount of fertil...
09/29/2026

Climate action is about changing the way we farm.

Nuru uses soil testing to help farmers apply the right amount of fertilizer and other inputs for their crops.

This approach can help farmers:
🌱 Improve soil health
📉 Reduce unnecessary input use and environmental impacts
🌾 Produce more profitably
🌦️ Build resilience to changing weather

For Nuru, climate-smart agriculture means finding practical solutions that help farmers protect the resources they depend on while building stronger livelihoods.

ICYMI: Nuru is scaling regenerative agriculture and locally-led economic opportunity in Ethiopia. 🌱Nuru has received an ...
09/29/2026

ICYMI: Nuru is scaling regenerative agriculture and locally-led economic opportunity in Ethiopia. 🌱

Nuru has received an $8.5 million, three-year grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to expand regenerative agriculture in marginalized communities, strengthen cooperative unions and federations in South Ethiopia Regional State, and develop nature-positive pathways to sustainable funding.

Helmsley has supported Nuru for more than a decade, helping cultivate resilience in rural communities across Africa. With Helmsley’s support, Nuru has now reached more than 505,000 people since its founding.

As we scale this work in Ethiopia, we’re strengthening a model of cooperative professionalism that connects remote smallholder farmers to global markets while creating opportunities for both economic and ecological prosperity.

09/24/2026

For smallholder farmers, climate action has to work in the real world.

That's why Nuru combines climate-smart agricultural practices with stronger, more profitable rural businesses.

From regenerative agriculture in Nigeria to diversified livelihoods in Kenya, Nuru's approach looks for ways to help farmers respond to climate pressures while protecting the land and resources their livelihoods depend on.

This means making practical changes like using farm inputs more efficiently, improving soil health, and diversifying income sources.

Cooperatives can help strengthen entire local economies.For cooperatives to reach their full potential, the work has to ...
09/23/2026

Cooperatives can help strengthen entire local economies.

For cooperatives to reach their full potential, the work has to happen on the ground: strengthening their businesses, leadership, governance, and connections to markets.

That’s where Nuru’s approach comes in.

From Kenya and Nigeria to Ethiopia, Nuru works alongside cooperatives, local governments, and other partners to build the systems and relationships that help cooperatives grow.

By the end of 2025, through Nuru's efforts to strengthen agribusinesses for farmers and pastoralists, over 456,000 peopl...
09/21/2026

By the end of 2025, through Nuru's efforts to strengthen agribusinesses for farmers and pastoralists, over 456,000 people had benefited from improved food security and increased incomes.

Together, we equipped tipping point communities to build prosperity and stability.

While conflict continued to unfold across West Africa, leaving rural communities at a critical tipping point, we launched in two new countries: Benin and Togo.

This brings the Nuru Collective's reach to eight countries and marks the establishment of Nuru's Resilience Corridor.

Climate Week NYC 2026 is almost here!From September 20–27, organizations from around the world will come together to exp...
09/16/2026

Climate Week NYC 2026 is almost here!

From September 20–27, organizations from around the world will come together to explore the solutions shaping a more resilient future. This year, Nuru is proud to highlight an often-overlooked force for climate action: climate-smart cooperatives.

Ahead of Climate Week, we sat down with Nuru’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Casey Harrison, to explore:

🌱 What exactly is a cooperative?
💰 How can cooperatives become vehicles for local investment?
🌍 How are Nuru-supported cooperatives helping communities respond to climate change?
🤝 And how can all of us support cooperatives?

Read the full interview to learn why strengthening locally owned cooperatives can be an important part of building resilient communities and economies. Link in the comments.

Nuru has received an $8.5 million, three-year grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.The grant w...
09/15/2026

Nuru has received an $8.5 million, three-year grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

The grant will be used to:
🌱 scale regenerative agriculture in marginalized communities
🤝 advance cooperative union and federation integration in South Ethiopia Regional State, and
🌾 build nature-positive pathways to sustainable funding

With funding from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, Nuru will positively impact 450,000 people across the region.

Land restoration aims to increase biodiversity, mitigate the impacts of climate change, and restore ecosystem services o...
09/14/2026

Land restoration aims to increase biodiversity, mitigate the impacts of climate change, and restore ecosystem services on degraded lands experiencing desertification.

What does Nuru do to support increasing the mitigation potential of farmers and their cooperatives?

🌱 Working with local communities and conservation stakeholders to leverage preexisting nature-based solutions (NbS) at a larger scale that can store carbon dioxide and protect biodiversity

🌱 Actively engaging with peer organizations, the private sector, and government partners to identify a feasible pathway for smallholder farmers to measurably and verifiably contribute to carbon sinks

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