Tools & Training

Climate-Smart Agriculture

Feed the Future employs a climate-smart approach that draws on state-of-the-art science and policy.

Enabling the Business of Agriculture in Support of the GFSS

This online series familiarizes audiences with the World Bank’s EBA Index that provides powerful analytic tools to support program development and USAID Mission objectives.

Feed the Future Performance Monitoring - Skills Development Course

Performance monitoring is critical for planning, managing and documenting Feed the Future project success. Access course materials here.

Food Security and Agriculture Core Course

This course incorportates USAID's focus for food security and agriculture development under the Global Food Security Strategy and expanding work in nutrition and resilience.

Gender Integration Framework (GIF) 101

This in-person course is designed to provide participants with knowledge of the GIF and offer initial practice in using it in their specific context.

New Extensionist Learning Kit

The Learning Kit contains 13 modules designed for self-guided, face-to-face, or blended learning. Modules should be used in conjunction with the accompanying workbook.

Policy to Advance Food Security and Inclusive Agricultural Growth

The course is designed to renew USAID’s commitment to and a deeper understanding of the power of policy to achieve Feed the Future objectives and support countries toward self-reliance.

An Introduction to Resilience at USAID and Beyond

Resilience 101

This self-paced, 50 minute course introduces the basics of resilience as an analytic, programmatic, and organizing concept and discusses USAID's resilience work to date.

Resilience Training: Measurement, Livelihood Diversification and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

Hour-long modules contain key concepts, priorities and considerations for resilience programming. It builds upon An Introduction to Resilience at USAID and Beyond.

Resilient Agriculture

Feed the Future employs a climate-smart approach that draws on state-of-the-art science and policy.

Supporting the Global Food Security Strategy through Stengthened SPS Systems

SPS Plant Health Distance Learning Modules

These courses provide an overview of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) topics related to plant health and international trade of agricultural goods.

Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI & GIF) Training of Trainers

Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index & Gender Integration Framework (WEAI & GIF) Training-of-Trainers

This course is designed to equip USAID with basic facilitation skills and knowledge of Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and Gender Integration Framework (GIF) content.

Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture (WEAI) 101

This in-person course is designed to provide participants with a foundational knowledge of the WEAI and its results to better understand its role in gender-responsive programming.

Woman in maize field looking at a small fall armyworm.

Fall Armyworm Mitigation: Learning Modules for Trainers of Smallholder Farmers in Africa

The "Fall Armyworm Mitigation: Learning Modules for Trainers of Smallholder Farmers in Africa" are designed to facilitate the training of smallholder farmers on management of fall armyworm.

Climate Risk Management Toolkit

This toolkit is to provides support for USAID’s climate risk management process. Whether you are designing an agriculture project, writing an agriculture proposal, implementing agriculture activities on the ground, or...

Feed the Future Tools to Combat Fall Armyworm in Africa

Fall Armyworm (FAW) is an invasive and damaging pest endemic to the Americas that is spreading across Africa, particularly targeting maize, a vital staple crop.

Feed the Future Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Toolbox

Tools include the Feed the Future Indicator Handbook, MEL Webinar Series, ZOI Survey Methods guidance, FTFMS guidance, and more!

Javier Rivera tomato farming in Gracias, Honduras. Photo by Fintrac Inc.

Empowering Youth in Agriculture and Food Systems

Feed the Future and Agency-wide resources to empower youth in agricultural development. Resources help development practitioners identify strategies to foster youth-inclusive agri-food systems.

Guidance and Tools for Global Food Security Programs

This technical guidance provides key concepts and best practices for designing and implementing Feed the Future programs under the Global Food Security Strategy.

Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture

Learn to use the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and the Gender Integration Framework (GIF) to inform program design and implementation.

Value Chain Development Wiki

An essential guide to development of value chains, including good practices and emerging knowledge about inclusive market systems.

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