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AgriCorps cultivates school-based agricultural education in developing countries to reduce generational cycles of hunger and poverty, transforming communities by spreading innovations to farmers through in-school youth as early adopters. 🌱

10/01/2026

A woman in Liberia learned to plant sweet potatoes on mounds from her brother, who learned it at school. A father says he gets his ideas about corn from his son. That is the whole design behind what we do: we train the agriculture teacher, the students practise on a school demonstration farm, and the lesson goes home with them. A four-year randomized trial by Northwestern University found this route nearly three times as effective at getting adult farmers to adopt new practices as traditional extension programs, which may be why a farmer here can say the new way gave him fifteen bags of cassava from eleven lines. This week our team is in Liberia with 4-H Liberia training the next group of teachers. Follow along to see what comes home from school next.

09/29/2026

23% of food in Africa is lost before it ever reaches the market. 🌱

Not wasted on a plate, but lost after harvest: in handling, in storage, on the way to market. For a family farm, that's income, school fees, and next season's seed lost along the way.

Much of that loss can be prevented. Through School-Based Agricultural Education, students learn how to harvest, store, and move their crops so more of what they grow makes it to market.

On this International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, we're celebrating the students and teachers turning that knowledge into full baskets and stronger communities. 💚

Source: FAO – Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2025, Goal 12.

09/02/2026

AI can tell a farmer which seed to plant and when to plant it. It cannot put that knowledge in their hands. Digital tools help, and growing food is still learned by doing.

Trent McKnight, founder of AgriCorps, makes the case that agriculture is the first step in a country's economic development. Before people can move into other industries, farming has to work well enough to feed families and produce a surplus.

That shift, from subsistence to commercial farming, starts with people who have worked the land themselves. School-Based Agricultural Education teaches agriculture the way it sticks. Students get their hands in the soil, season after season.

This week in Kigali, AGRA-Sustainably Growing Africa’s Food Systems. and partners at The Africa Food Systems Forum - AGRF are asking how to grow jobs and build resilience across the continent's food systems. Skilled young farmers are part of that answer, and it starts in the classroom and the field.

08/28/2026

New farming technology spreads faster when a young person tries it first. They take on the risk, prove it works, and pass it to their parents and neighbors.

That insight sits at the centre of School-Based Agricultural Education, a model more than a century old.

At AgriCorps, we partner with local schools and set them up as a hub for spreading new methods. Students learn a new farming technique in school gardens, then take it home to their families and communities.

We’re continuing to adapt this approach for a West African context, bringing positive changes to education, agriculture, and environment sectors, with students as the crucial link between them.

The idea is simple: invest in one young person and you can benefit a whole community!

12/18/2025

🌱 Schools at the Heart of the SBAE Movement 🌱

Schools are the perfect place to spread new farming ideas and give students skills that matter. With hands-on, experiential learning, teachers bring lessons to life - in classrooms and on family farms.

This approach gets parents involved, keeps kids (especially girls!) in school, and shows that agriculture can be a real career. Students use their new skills to earn income, invest in their education, and share knowledge across their communities.

School gardens make the program self-sustaining, while embedding SBAE in the curriculum helps these innovations reach every corner of the country. 🌍💚

12/11/2025

Thanks to the 4-H Club, a group of determined women in Beadatuo, Liberia, turned inspiration into action.

The Kwakesor United Women’s Group began when parents of 4-H members attended a farmer field school, led by the 4-H field officer, where they learned modern agricultural techniques. Motivated by what they learned, they decided to organize themselves into a cooperative - living up to their name Kwakesor, which means “let’s do it well” in the Gio language.

With training from 4-H in raised beds, proper crop spacing, and innovative lowland planting, their farms now produce vegetables, dry-season corn, and lowland rice. Many of the women have taken these new practices back to their own farms, boosting productivity and livelihoods across the community.

📈 From a 500 m² vegetable plot to over an acre of rice fields, the 4-H innovations are proving that when women learn together and experiment boldly, they can transform both their farms and their futures. 💚

12/03/2025

We're proud to see AgriCorps featured by the School Meals Coalition for their work building the next generation of food system leaders - starting in schools. 🌱✨

School-based agricultural education gives young people the skills and confidence to shape stronger, more resilient communities.
A big thank-you to the World Food Programme for championing partnerships that make this possible.

👉 Read the full article via the link in comment section.

12/02/2025

Today, you can help AgriCorps empower young people with the hands-on agricultural skills they need to build stronger, more resilient communities.

Your gift supports School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) programs that teach leadership, problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and modern farming skills that last a lifetime.

Give today and help grow the next generation of agricultural leaders: https://sbae.org/donate/.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from the SBAE Movement! 🍂

We’re grateful every day for the young people gaining hands-on agricultural skills - and for you, our supporters, followers and partners who make it all possible.

Thank you for helping grow the next generation of leaders. 🌾

11/25/2025

This is Micheal. 🌱 At just 17, he turned a small backyard into a thriving garden - tomatoes, peppers, cassava, potatoes… all grown through skills he learned in his 4-H club.

His first tomato harvest brought in LRD 4,500.
Enough to pay for his school materials, buy new shoes, and support his younger siblings.

With limited means but endless ambition, he’s now dreaming of studying agriculture and becoming a field technician for his community.

Real impact starts young. ✨

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PO Box 123
Throckmorton, TX
76483

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+19408492261

Website

https://agricorps.org/

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