Farmer Profiles
Audrey Arner
Audrey Arner wants a few simple things from the 240-acre Minnesota farm she works with her husband: to live a balanced life, mixing work and play, and to do it within their means.
Seydou Coulibaly
Imagine having 42 people depend on the income you squeeze out of a 55-acre farm.
Gnagna Traoré
Gnagna Traoré grows peanuts, millet, and cotton on her 10-hectare (24 acre) farm near Fana, Mali. Farming supports seven people in her immediate family. Madame Traoré and her grandson run the farm together since her husband passed away.
Soloba Mady Keita
For Malian farmer Soloba Mady Keita, cotton represents life--its hard work and its rewards.
Ken Gallaway
Ken Gallaway of Texas may live thousands of miles apart from his fellow cotton farmers in Mali, but he has a lot in common with them: hopes for their kids, concerns for their communities,and problems with US farm subsidies.
Dexter Randall
When Vermont dairy farmer Dexter Randall returned home from a trip to West Africa last July, he couldn’t help but compare his life to those of the poor farmers he had just met.