SOSTENICA

SosteNica addresses the central challenges of smallholder farm families and their communities to improve their lives and their environment. Our staff work together in the fields, homes, schools, and communities of rural Nicaragua employing a model designed to provide long-term, sustainable economic, environmental, and health benefits. These benefits are derived through agricultural technical assistance, a school garden program, installation of clean cookstoves, business training for young entrepreneurs and the provision of capital... SosteNica works with Nicaraguan smallholder farmers and their communities to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. We deploy a development model that addresses the evolving requirements of these farmers as they move from subsistence farming to farms that generate a virtuous cycle of rising standards of wealth and income in a manner that is ecologically sustainable. SosteNica's name derives from the Spanish, "Soste," (taken from "sostenible", meaning..

Primary location: North Haven United States