Prevent the next famine
Give from your harvest
Help the poor increase theirs
Beyond relief to lasting solutions
“Estimates show that emergency relief in famines cost seven times as much as preventing them.”
- Sam Dryden, Director, Agricultural Development Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Attention U.S. Farmers:
Give from your harvest to help the poor increase their harvest,
optimize your tax advantage and prevent the next famine!
Your commodities – wheat, corn, soybeans – can be part of a long-term solution.
By donating them to MEDA, you can turn them into a cash gift
to support farmers in Ethiopia, Ukraine or Pakistan.
Farmer to Farmer - Linkages for Food SecurityCommodity in-kind gifts offer several tax advantages:
- Qualify for a business tax deduction on your cost of production in the U.S.
- Reduce your self-employment tax
- Manage your net income
Contributing to food security
MEDA is helping to ensure that more food, and more nutritious food, is grown to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population. This provides long-term solutions to the problems of food security and improved incomes for small farmers.
Helping farmers in developing countries
MEDA is encouraging small farmers in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Pakistan to adopt sustainable farming practices and help them move away from meagre
subsistence toward a more prosperous future. Small farmers learn how to boost yields through the use of better seeds, planting techniques, simple technologies (ie, drip irrigation, treadle pumps) and the responsible use of fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers reduce waste by improving distribution systems so food gets to market before it rots in the field, and they get better storage to protect their produce from the elements.
MEDA has been creating business solutions to poverty since 1953
We work with local partners to help the poor gain access to capital, markets and training. We leave behind profitable businesses and institutions that continue MEDA’s work long after we are gone. Some of our current projects:
Ethiopia EDGET – Ethiopians Driving Growth, Entrepreneurship and Trade – is helping 10,000 farmers and textile producers link to better markets and climb out of poverty.
Ukraine UHDP – Ukraine Horticulture Development Project – is providing the tools and opportunities to help 5,000 farmers increase their incomes through the development of high-value crops.
Pakistan – The ENTREPRENEURS project is working with 75,000 micro-entrepreneurs in the dairy, honey/beeswax, medicinal plants and embellished fabrics sectors to cultivate markets and encourage innovation in marketing and design.
Click to download a printable copy of the brochure and donation form in Acrobat PDF!
How to donate
It’s easy to give a commodity in-kind gift to MEDA:
1. Contact MEDA at 1-800-665-7026
2. Verbally give the commodity to MEDA
3. MEDA will ask you to sell
4. You can designate which MEDA project that you want to support
5. Proceeds go directly to MEDA
For more information, please call Mike Miller
or Marlin Hershey at 1-800-665-7026.
Lancaster PA office: 32-C E Roseville Rd., Lancaster, PA 17601-3861
Fax: 717-560-6549