Winrock Innovations Newsletter | May 2017
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'MINGALABAR, MR. FERGUSON!'  
Winrock president & CEO gets firsthand view of projects in the 'Land of a Million Pagodas.' 

It’s 3 a.m. on a monsoon Monday when Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson's plane touches down in Yangon, Burma. Ferguson has come for the inside scoop on how Winrock's Farmer-to-Farmer and Value Chains for Rural Development projects, both funded by USAID, connect smallholder growers to new practices, technology and markets in this complex country.

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JOIN US AT SPECIAL D. C. EXHIBIT
"Ending Child Labor: A Story of Transformation in Liberia" features photos from the Actions to Reduce Child Labor project. 
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FROM FARM TO PLATE 
Concordia video features Wallace Center's John Fisk on creating an innovative 21st-century food system.
 
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A DREAM DEFERRED 
Professor Maung Maung Htwe returned to his native land to help farmers. Burma has never been the same.
 
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AWARD-WINNING VOLUNTEER
Dr. Khalid Hameed is Winrock's Volunteer Spirit Award winner. 
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FASHIONING THE FUTURE 
Helping a Nepali businessman create new quilts from old cloth. 
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Food Tank: F2F Country Director Dr. Ai Thanda Kyaw on adopting new technologies 

Make Magazine: How Innovation Hub helps young inventors save babies’ lives 

USA Travel Magazine: Birds in Sandan is "beautiful" birdwatching guidebook

WEE Global Learning Forum: Charlotte Friar on Promoting Women’s Empowerment 

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