To date, IDE has reached more than two million poor farm families. By empowering them to begin the journey from poverty, IDE provides market access, training and water-control technologies.
IDE has big ideas and uses a market-based approach to reduce poverty in the poorest developing countries worldwide. Our successes are not only measured by sheer economic growth, but also by the stories of success shared by our farm families.
CASE STUDIES
"Our Life is Much Better" - a case study from Zambia Before learning about IDE, Peter Chakanyuka, along with his wife and six children, farmed a ½ hectare plot of land. Depending upon rain for irrigation, his family could only grow maize and peanuts, with yields that were too small to sell...
A Good Business and a Secure Future : An IDE Success Story from Vietnam Years of war have left Phu Da commune with vast areas of sandy, infertile land pockmarked with bomb craters. IDE’s affordable hand pumps enabled farmers in Phu Da to grow better quality, high value crops even during the dry season. But, thanks to IDE’s entrepreneurial approach, it’s not just the farmers who benefit.
"Better Income in a Shorter Time" - an IDE Success Story from Cambodia Then Chanta and his brother-in-law Run Vanna are rice-growing farmers in Otaki village, Cambodia. With limited land, they were not able to move beyond subsistence farming to escape chronic poverty. That changed when they learned about an opportunity to participate in an experimental IDE project...
Cornerstones of Success: A Cambodia Testamonial Seven years ago, Ken Yean and his wife Neary were typical rice farmers in the Mekong Delta region of Southeast Cambodia. They and their five children eked out an existence on one hectare of paddy land.
2005 Annual Report
Information and financial data about IDE for budget year 2005. Download now (PDF, 674 KB)
LINKS
FAO: The experiences of IDE in the mass marketing of small-scale affordable irrigation devices
Lawrence A. Egan and staffs/International Development Enterprises (IDE)
Polak Wins Monito del Giardino Prize
(June 1, 2008) IDE Founder Paul Polak recently traveled to Florence, Italy, to accept the prestigious Il Monito del Giardino prize. The award, which included a €30,000 grant, is presented annually...
Friends of IDE Holds First Meeting
(June 18, 2008) A new group for Denver-area residents who want to get more involved with IDE will hold its first meeting Friday, June 27, from 6-8 p.m...
Polak's Out of Poverty Now Available
(February 15, 2008) In this hard-hitting new book,IDE Founder Paul Polak tells why traditional poverty eradication programs have fallen so short, and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty...
IDE Receives Second Grant From Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(January 25, 2008) IDE today announced a grant of $27 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its micro-irrigation programs for Indian smallholder farmers...
