Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

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Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is a US Agency for International Development (USAID) program, implemented by Fintrac Inc., 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.

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Planning for the Unexpected: Mozambique's First Weather-based Insurance Policy and Seed Bundle

When natural disasters strike, smallholders require immediate assistance and a pathway to future resilience. That’s the aim of an innovative partnership launched in 2020 between USAID’s Feed the Future Partnering...

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Jan 21, 2021

COVID-19 Hub

A Year Like No Other: Stories of Resilience and Innovation from Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

As we close on an unprecedented year, Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation offers inspiring stories of resilience and innovation from our private sector agribusiness partners around the world.

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Dec 18, 2020

Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Markets and Trade Resilience

Thermostable Peste des Petits Ruminants Vaccine Commercially Available for the First Time

An innovative partnership between Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation and Hester Biosciences Nepal offers transformative potential to help eradicate a devastating global livestock disease.

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Nov 30, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Resilience

How Three African Agribusinesses are Responding to COVID-19 in Real-Time

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is helping three African agribusinesses roll out new tech solutions to respond to COVID-19 and become better prepared for future crises.

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Sep 14, 2020

COVID-19 Markets and Trade Resilience

Supporting Female Entrepreneurs through COVID-19

Small businesses like Farm Reap are disproportionately impacted by economic shocks, including those already caused by COVID-19.

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Sep 03, 2020

COVID-19 Gender

No More Risky Business: Remote Sensing Technology for Delivering Insured Crop Seeds in Mozambique

Using data based on remote sensing technology, a weather-based index will enable an estimated 5,000 farmers in areas affected by last year’s cyclone Idai to receive replacement seed at no...

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

May 21, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade

High-Risk, High-Reward: Partnering for Innovation Launches New Partnerships to Support Coffee Producers Manage Price Risk

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation has recently partnered with two organizations – Farm Africa and Oikocredit – to provide SPOs in key coffee-producing countries with access to the knowledge...

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Apr 02, 2020

Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Markets and Trade Resilience

Reaching Smallholder Farmers with Agricultural Research Innovations

How can researchers work with the private sector to make sure that products both meet the real needs of farmers and are commercially viable in the market?

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Feb 21, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience

Building a More Sustainable and Resilient Coffee Supply Chain

More than 80 percent of the world’s coffee is produced by smallholders. Despite their integral role, these farmers face significant challenges that threaten their livelihoods and the long-term viability of...

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Jan 17, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade Resilience

Getting the Business Fundamentals Right for Digital Agriculture Success

The Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation program has partnered with a wide range of agribusinesses in developing countries. Digital technologies have been a major part of these efforts.

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Dec 16, 2019

Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Resilience

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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.

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.

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