Winrock Innovations Newsletter | August 2016
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SAVING CAMBODIA'S ECOSYSTEM — ONE CLICK AT A TIME 
Meet Winrock's Ecosystem Services Team. They've been very busy lately. 

A complicated digital tool is about to be unveiled. It was planned and tested for months, was carefully conceived and designed with detailed stakeholder feedback and consultation. It could make a real difference in the health of Cambodia’s fragile ecosystem. But Mike Netzer is nervous. In his mind’s eye, he sees the little spinning wheel that signals a page is loading … and loading … and loading. He’s not worried about the Watershed Ecosystem Services Tool (WESTool). He’s worried about bandwidth. “Little things like that were big fears for us as I was getting ready to stand in front of the Cambodian Ministry of Environment and present the tool.”

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE CUP OF JOE
Pour yourself a cup of java and read about Burmese coffee's unlikely journey from smallholder farm to specialty store shelf. 
 
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GOING GREEN IN VIETNAM 
They are engineers and architects, managers and professors. Catch up on our series of Vietnamese women in the construction industry.
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THE FACE OF CHANGE
Wilson Mbage of Yambio town, South Sudan, used to keep his daughters out of school. Now he's become an outspoken advocate for girls' education — and his sons do housework.
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'CONNECTED BY THE HUMAN THREAD'
A Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer inspires young entrepreneurs — and they inspire her, too. 
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WINROCK IN THE NEWS

HELPING OUT IN LIBERIA
Equipment donation helps farmers and reduces child labor through the Actions to Reduce Child Labor (ARCH) project.
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