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Economic recovery and development at the International Rescue Committee: agriculture and rural livelihoods

To support agricultural recovery in long-term or post-crisis locations, the IRC works with communities to restore agricultural assets, upgrade skills and practices, and build disaster preparedness to better protect and improve their livelihoods.

ResourceOctober 6, 2016

Food and Agriculture Job Training Program

POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women's Economic Resilience) and New Roots are proud to follow all the graduates of the Food and Agriculture Job Training Program as they start careers and gain control of their futures. Almost all graduates go on to seek additional training or employment within the local food industry.

AnnouncementNovember 17, 2017

Safe Spaces Through Food and Agriculture: Youth Food Justice

The Youth Food Justice program with the International Rescue Committee in Dallas provided eight teens the chance to explore creativity and job readiness skills through food and agriculture.

AnnouncementAugust 6, 2019

Food and agriculture job training program

New Roots NY and IRC’s POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women’s Economic Resilience) program have teamed up this spring to offer a comprehensive and engaging job training program.

AnnouncementJune 24, 2016

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Volunteer

Receive free vegetables when you help pack and prep refugee-grown produce for the New Roots weekly farm box program (CSA).

VolunteerSalt Lake City, UT

New Roots in Dallas

New Roots focuses on food security, food access and agriculture in the refugee community. New Roots is a national program and is located in 12 different cities. In Dallas, we have partnered with 9 different community gardens to provide growing space for our clients.

VideoAugust 10, 2016
Ethiopian Sheyte Amdu smiling

Why drought can't drive this Ethiopian family from their home

After the IRC rehabilitated a water point close to her home, 25-year-old Sheyte Amdu was able to stay in her village.

ArticleMay 11, 2016

A doctor returns home to help save her fellow Syrians

As she watched the tragic war unfold in Syria, Dr. Manal Faham took leave from her practice to join other physicians working to save the sick and wounded.

ArticleDecember 1, 2016

New Roots, Charlottesville

Each year, the International Rescue Committee in Charlottesville resettles some 200 refugees, helping them to achieve economic self-­sufficiency, a sense of security and social integration.

VideoJune 22, 2015

Empowerment at the New Roots Community Farm

New York City refugee women are growing produce, community, and job skills at the IRC New Roots Community Farm in the Bronx

AnnouncementMay 18, 2018

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