Agros Blog

Today the announcement was made that Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize:

“for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”

Agros International also believes in the importance of creating economic and social development from below and empowering people to …own agricultural land, attain economic self-sufficiency“, and to reach overall sustainability through a variety of community development processes and tools.

Credit is just one of the many tools that Agros uses in a holistic development model to help make this happen. While “micro credit organizations” focus solely on short-term small business loans, Agros has a unique approach with our use of long-term loans for land purchase, combined with our focus on training, economic development, infrastructure, human development and community organization.

Here at Agros, we provide rural farming families with the opportunity to become land owners by providing them loans for 7-10 years to purchase land where they can live, farm and build a sustainable community. Already five communities in Guatemala have received their land titles through this process with credit and Agros!

Today is an important day where the world celebrates the importance of “development from below” and is something that Agros can continue to lift up through our holistic development model and long-term land loans, with the over 1,000 families that we currently serve and the thousands more we hope to serve.