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Activities are USAID-funded projects and programs that address global food security, agriculture and/or nutrition, including the Feed the Future Innovation Labs. Browse the pages below for an overview of each activity, plus highlighted resources, blog posts, and contact information. If you are interested in creating an activity page for your project, please contact Agrilinks. You can also view a listing of completed activities on this page.

A devastating outbreak of coffee leaf rust has affected 50 percent of coffee growers in Honduras, wiping out coffee production for thousands of farmers.

Feed the Future Private Sector Engagement in Climate Smart Agriculture

Three linked Feed the Future Initiatives are engaging the private sector in supporting small farmers to adapt to climate change: FtF Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience, Climate Smart Cocoa...

Business Drivers for Food Safety

Farm products pass through many hands on their way to consumers. Some foods are sold closer to the point of production in village markets, whereas some move through complex systems...

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Initiative for Smallholder Finance

Initiative for Smallholder Finance (ISF) is an advisory group committed to transforming rural economies by delivering partnerships and investment structures that promote financial inclusion for rural enterprises and smallholder farmers...

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Feed the Future Somalia Camel Leasing to Impact Resilience Activity

Exploring the practice of camel leasing and its potential to mitigate droughts’ impacts on Somali pastoralist households, communities, and camel milk processers.

Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security Project

The primary objective of the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project is to address enabling environment factors that affect food security outcomes.

Wheat field

Standards for Supporting Agricultural Livelihoods in Emergencies Project

The SEADS Project enables those responding to humanitarian crises to design, implement, and evaluate agricultural interventions.

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

INGENAES is designed to assist partners in Feed the Future countries to build more robust, gender-responsive, and nutrition-sensitive institutions, projects and programs.

Farmer-to-Farmer Program

The Farmer-to-Farmer Program provides technical assistance from United States volunteers to farmers, farm groups, agribusinesses, service providers and other agriculture sector institutions.

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Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation, implemented by Fintrac, is a program that identifies and promotes technologies for investment and distribution across the developing world.

Feed the Future Haiti Appui à la Recherche et au Développement Agricole

Feed the Future Haiti Appui à la Recherche et au Développement Agricole

Our project enhances and improves existing country-driven approaches to address food insecurity and undernutrition by strengthening and supporting Haitian institutions.

Processing Green Beans

Food Safety Network

The Food Safety Network (FSN) is a U.S. Government interagency partnership to help build food safety capacity worldwide.

Man in field.

Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay

The Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay project aims to boost smallholder incomes by scaling up and expanding successful technologies, skills, and approaches for cereal value chains.

Pineapple in a kitchen

USAID/Rwanda Private Sector Driven Agricultural Growth (PSDAG) Project

The Private Sector Driven Agricultural Growth (PSDAG) project is a five-year effort funded by USAID/Rwanda as part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative. PSDAG works to improve the...

Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity Project

The Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity project galvanizes diverse extension and advisory service stakeholders to measurably improve extension programs, policies and services.

Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program

AWE builds capacity, provides tailored short- and long-term technical support, and generates, synthesizes and shares good practices promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Mr. Okundi from VOTY Farmers Group in Homa Bay County.  The group engages in fruit tree grafting as their main income generating activity Photo credit: Katie G. Nelson/RTI International

Feed the Future Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems

The Feed the Future Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems Development Activity is helping to increase agricultural production and reduce poverty and malnutrition in Kenya.

USAID Investment Support Program

At the core of the Investment Support Program (ISP) is a market-systems approach to identify investment opportunities, mobilize private capital, and deepen private and financial sector engagement – all with...

Innovation Labs

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Applied Wheat Genomics Innovation Lab

The Applied Wheat Genomics Innovation Lap develops heat-tolerance, high-yeilding, farmer-accepted wheat varieties through local characterization and breeding networks.

Climate Resilient Beans Innovation Lab

The Climate Resilient Beans Lab integrates new scientific technologies with traditional breeding approaches to develop heat- and drought-tolerant, high-yielding bean varieties.
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Climate Resilient Chickpea Innovation Lab

The Climate-Resilient Chickpea Innovation Lab emphasizes the crop-based traits of climate resilience and nutrition, focusing genetic improvement on the needs of small holder farmers.
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Climate Resilient Millet Innovation Lab

The Climate Resilient Millet Innovation Lab is harnessing genomic and molecular tools and proprietary technologies for climate resilience to develop heat- and drought-tolerant millet
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Climate Resilient Sorghum Innovation Lab

The Climate Resilient Sorghum Innovation Lab is using new scientific tools to develop drought- and heat-tolerant varieties of sorghum.
Men standing in a field of wheat

Climate Resilient Wheat Innovation Lab

The Climate Resilient Wheat Innovation Lab is developing new wheat varieties that can withstand heat stress.
Women waiting for catch to come in so they can set market prices in Nigeria. Photo by Joe Steensma/WUSTL

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

The Fish Innovation Lab works to reduce poverty and improve nutrition, food security, and livelihoods by supporting research on sustainable aquaculture and fisheries systems.

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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

The sustainable production of safe, nutritious food — and ensuring reliable access for consumers — is essential to advancing developing nations. Led by a collaboration between Purdue University and Cornell...

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research is uniting researchers from universities around the United States with international collaborators to improve nutrition, resilience, sustainability and economic opportunities...

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience

The MRR Innovation Lab develops and tests financial and market innovations that take the most promising agricultural tools for families in developing economies from the lab to the field.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut is contributing to increased productivity and profitability of peanut production through research.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) aims to expand farmer-led, small scale irrigation in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Feed the Future Policy LINK

Policy LINK strengthens the leadership capacity of public, private, and civil society actors and fosters collective action among them to transform policy systems.

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Food Processing and Post-Harvest Handling Innovation Lab

The Food Processing and Post-Harvest Handling Innovation Lab is working to increase access to safe and nutritious foods along the value chain.
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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

The Food Security Policy Innovation Lab is helping establish policies conducive to market-led, smallholder-focused, inclusive agricultural growth and food security...
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Genomics to Improve Poultry Innovation Lab

The Genomics to Improve Poultry Innovation Lab is working to reduce limitations to chicken production by applying advanced genetics and genomic approaches.
Horticulture Innovation Lab

Horticulture Innovation Lab

The Horticulture Innovation Lab's global reserach network advances fruit and vegetable innovations, so smallholder farmers can earn more income while better nourishing their communitities.
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Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

The Lab for Livestock Systems aims to sustainably intensify smallholder livestock systems through research, technology application, capacity building, and knowledge
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Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab

The integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab implements participatory, integrated pest management programs (IPM) in horticultural and grain crops.
Orange Maize for a Nutrition Boost in Zambia

Nutrition Innovation Lab

The Nutrition Innovation Lab identifies ways policy and program interventions involving agriculture effectively achieve large-scale improvements for maternal and child nutrition
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Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Lab

The Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Lab is working to reduce post-harvest loss and food waste of durable staple crops and related processed products.
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Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab

The Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab is advancing sciences that contribute technologies and knowledge toward the enhancement of adaptation, resilience and profitability of sorghum.
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Soybean Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) works to improve food security and nutrition around the world. SIL is a team of technical soybean experts that provide evidence-based innovations...
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Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab

The Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab focuses on integrated farming systems research and technologies to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and nutrition
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The Rift Valley Fever Control in Agriculture Innovation Lab

The Rift Valley Fever Control in Agriculture Innovation Lab is developing a vaccine against Rift Valley Fever, a highly infectious and deadly cattle disease.

Completed Activites

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Aquaculture and Fisheries Innovation Lab

The AquaFish Innovation Lab develops sustainable, ecologically compatible, and socially viable aquaculture and innovative fisheries management systems that contribute to food security.
Woman in Nepal standing in field

Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab

The AMA Innovation Lab builds knowledge to empower farmers in developing economies to create a secure, self-reliant and prosperous future for their families and communities.

Climate Resilient Cowpea Innovation Lab

This activity ended in September, 2019. The Climate-Resilient Cowpea Innovation Lab develops and applies advanced genomic tools to cowpea breeding to increase yield, drought tolerance and fungal resistance in cowpea.
Cambodian farmer in field of crops

Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education

The mission of the Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education (InnovATE) project is to achieve sustainable food security.

Legume Innovation Lab

The Grain Legumes Innovation Lab is developing improved grain legume varieties that are resistant to climatic stresses, as well as disease and insect threats.
Farming field in the Sahel region of Mali

Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services

The objective for MEAS is to define and disseminate good practice strategies and approaches to establishing efficient, effective and financially sustainable rural extension systems.

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