Help move chickens out of cramped and barren battery cages to large sheds where they can pasture outdoors throughout the day, with access to natural light and the joy and freedom of a natural life.

Industrial chickens are genetically altered for growth so fast that their internal organs never reach full maturity. They have difficulty walking and suffer from flipover disease, where young, healthy, fast-growing broiler chickens are afflicted with wing-beating convulsions. Many just "flip over" and die on their backs.

Modern genetics have a dramatically objectionable toll not only on the quality of life of an animal, but on an animal's permanent ability to resist disease. Put an animal on pasture and he will quickly develop a natural immunity to infection and the upward spiral of ailments found in factory farms.

Help move pigs confined pens and onto pasture, where they are free to come and go to paddocks from a large open barn full of straw.

Pigs raised on factory farms live in tiny crates for their entire lives, where they are only able to take one step forward and one back. They haven't even the ability to lie down or sleep comfortably. This abusive confinement can lead to psychosis, where pigs bite repeatedly on bars and sit for hours with their mouths open, gasping for air. The economic concept: It takes fewer calories to feed an animal that can't move. The benefits of this misery go into the pockets of industrial farmers.
 

Bring a miracle to a farm in India. Help a destitute farmer purchase a subsistence plot of land, where he can raise enough food to feed his family and neighbours, sell the surplus to local markets, and fight for his right to food and a livelihood.

Kontama and her sister, Anjali, were forced to leave her family's farmland by an industrial factory farm planting cotton destined for export to North America, and now live in a Mumbai ghetto. Their mother has turned to prostitution to support them. In India, peasant farmers who have been removed from their land by industrial farms and biotech firms have committed suicides in hundreds of thousands or are living on the edges of urban ghettos in utter destitution and despair.

Economists predict that India will have to import over 250 million tons of rice and wheat this year. With the prices of lentils and rice higher than ever before, and with the twin engines of severe drought followed by flooding, both sharing equal responsibility in the destruction of crops raised for food, any further rise will effect many, many destitute Indians already well below poverty level. It will be a year of starvation, and millions will be forced into a debt trap. Thousands will resort to distress sale of land, animals and other belongings. There are already stories of farmers who have sold their wives and their daughters -- bringing untold suffering.

Industrial agriculture has over the past 50 years brought to India lines of livestock that can't adapt to its harsh environment, and that have poor resistance to disease, leaving small farmers without a source of food and employment. We are working with these landless Indian farmers to buy small plots of land for subsistence farming, where they can raise strong, healthy genetic lines of livestock and drought-resistant crops and fight for their right to food. This is a precedent-setting program.
 

Help move a subsistence farmer out of poverty through the purchase of a treadle pump for irrigation, improving crop yields and sources of feed for his animals.

Over the past decade, a revolution has been taking place in irrigation in the developing world with the introduction of the foot-operated treadle pump. This simple, human-powered water pump can be bought by small farmers at low cost. The pumps have had a significant impact on the productivity of small nonindustrial farms in India and Bangladesh.

The UN suggests that nonindustrial farms offer the best chance of breaking the cycle of poverty and malnutrition Asia and Africa have been locked in for decades. New evidence shows that smallholder practices are delivering sharp increases in yields, improvements in the soil and a boost in the income of Africa's small farmers, who remain among the poorest people on earth. The treadle pump frees peasant farmers from dependence on rain-fed farming and enables them to grow crops they would be unable to grow, with a significant increase in crop yield.