Strategies for International Development (SID) develops, applies, and promotes better methods for helping poor farmers graduate from poverty. We help negotiate with exporters, make business plans, and increase productivity, processing, and income given the opportunities of their market. We work in Guatemala, Peru, and Bolivia, the three countries in Latin America with the greatest number of rural poor. We use seven innovations that increase project results, reduce costs, and graduate farmers from poverty more rapidly. In all our projects 1. Graduation from poverty is the goal 2. Farmers adopt business as well as better farming practices 3. Farmers participate in selecting the farming practices they adopt, we provide technical assistance in them, and they evaluate their results 4. We use "learn-by-doing" to help farmers adopt business and better farming practices 5. Reclaiming eroded land is a key objective 6. Equal participation of women is a condition 7. We measure results in terms of increases in farmers’ income and cost-effectiveness as the ratio of the increases to project cost Agricultural projects for poor farmers are anti-poverty projects, and we need an anti-poverty goal to measure success. The business practices help farmers make better business decisions. Farmers need to select the farming practices they adopt and evaluate their results after a project closes, and it makes sense to help them do so during the project. Helping farmers adopt better farming practices in their community, on farm plots they select, is much better than telling them what to do in a workshop. Poor farmers are overworking their land, and they need to conserve their land and water in order to sustain increases in income. Half of poor farmers are women, and equal participation increases their leadership and empowerment as well as their income. Increases in income and the ratio of the increases to project costs are the best measures for improving project performance.