Through financial services like crop insurance and loans, clients like Jakob are better able to protect their futures. Read Jakob’s story, watch the “Harvesting Hope” video about Opportunity’s agriculture finance program, and explore our 2009 Annual Report for links to stories, videos and more information about Jakob and our microfinance work all around the world. Learn how we’re Helping Communities Thrive by providing financial access to over two million economically marginalized people in more than 20 countries. It’s more than microfinance: it’s a working solution to global poverty.

But we are not the only organization to want to discuss agricultural sustainability. Go deeper and check out other contributors’ past posts about agriculture, hunger and poverty. We especially like “The G8 Invests in Women and Children” (7/01/10), written by Bread for the World‘s Asma Lateef, and “The Best Development Bargain in the World” (6/18/10), by Venkatesh Mannar of the Micronutrient Initiative. Both posts are about the recent G8 Summit in Muskoka, Canada, where global leaders pledged to refocus their efforts on improving maternal and child mortality rates by 2015 as part of the UN Millennium Development Goals, emphasizing the crucial role that agriculture and food security will play in achieving these goals.

Read more at The Hunger and Undernutrition Blog. And tell us what agriculture or microfinance blogs you’re reading in the comment field below.