Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is a US Agency for International Development (USAID) program that is changing the landscape for supporting agriculture in emerging markets by empowering the private sector to raise incomes and reduce hunger. Partnering for Innovation builds partnerships with agribusinesses to help them sell new products and services to smallholder farmers, who represent a potential market of more than 500 million customers worldwide. Businesses are provided with the investment assistance, expert guidance, and technical support they need to expand in emerging markets and create a growing and lasting customer base for their agricultural innovations. Learn more about our partners.

Impact

Since its inception in 2012, Partnering for Innovation has created 75 partnerships in 24 countries around the world. With program support, more than 1.7 million smallholder farmers have purchased over $110 million worth of new products and services to date, enabling them to boost farm production, increase incomes, reinvest in their businesses, and strengthen food security. In total, Partnering for Innovation has helped to commercialize 133 technologies and management practices.

About Fintrac Inc.

Fintrac, a woman-owned and US-based consulting company, develops agricultural solutions to end hunger and poverty. For almost three decades, Fintrac's work has increased rural incomes and strengthened food security across Africa, Asia, and Latin America by developing interventions to improve market system competitiveness and increase participation of smallholder farmers. Since 2000, Fintrac has delivered training and technical assistance to more than 2 million smallholder farmers, leveraged $3 billion in sales, and helped almost 10 million people, including children, become more food secure.