By 2050, the global population is projected to reach 9.7 billion. Farmers, already challenged to produce more food, need new tools and technologies to keep pace.
Agricultural Productivity
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Jun 21, 2019
In this new five-part series, the USAID/Rwanda PSDAG project shares thinking and lessons learned on a range of topics.
Jun 19, 2019
With enhanced access to laboratory, veterinary, and education services, Ukraine’s smallholder dairy farmers are elevating the quality of their products and tapping new markets.
There is extensive evidence that reducing undernutrition brings considerable economic benefits, often far greater than the costs of investing in nutrition programs. But the evidence on a global scale offers only a first step toward guidance on priorities for investing in young children’s nutrition...
Jun 18, 2019
USAID's Value Chains for Rural Development project in Myanmar is helping smallholder farmers begin to think and plan ahead to mitigate risks that could impact their incomes. As a result, producers are becoming more proactive and confident negotiating pre-sales agreements and contracts.
We have entered a development era shaped by the 2030 Agenda, its Sustainable Development Goals and the fourth industrial revolution, as well as accelerated societal changes driven by economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.
Jun 11, 2019
This story was written by Patrick Bell, Deputy Regional Director for Quality and Growth, Latin America and the Caribbean for Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health. Honduras is the world’s fifth largest producer of coffee in volume. Despite their claim on the global market, many Honduran...
Large and rapid declines in costs for renewable energy systems, particularly solar and wind power, and efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions are reshaping energy systems globally. Expanding renewable energy systems have great potential to achieve widespread electricity access, improve food...
Jun 11, 2019
For communities in northern Kenya, livestock is the foundation of food security. Approximately 5.8 million people make a living as pastoralists, herding camels, cows, goats and sheep in search of water and food. These animals are valuable sources of nutrition and income for these families.
Jun 10, 2019
Policy makers are frustrated. On the one hand they lack the resources and local capacity to implement existing national agricultural strategies; on the other, they are overwhelmed by multiple paradigms and constantly-shifting approaches, and catching up seems impossible.
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Jun 10, 2019
In this new five-part series, the USAID/Rwanda PSDAG project shares thinking and lessons learned on a range of topics.
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Jun 21, 2019
In this new five-part series, the USAID/Rwanda PSDAG project shares thinking and lessons learned on a range of topics.
Jun 19, 2019
With enhanced access to laboratory, veterinary, and education services, Ukraine’s smallholder dairy farmers are elevating the quality of their products and tapping new markets.
Jun 18, 2019
USAID's Value Chains for Rural Development project in Myanmar is helping smallholder farmers begin to think and plan ahead to mitigate risks that could impact their incomes. As a result, producers are becoming more proactive and confident negotiating pre-sales agreements and contracts.
Jun 11, 2019
This story was written by Patrick Bell, Deputy Regional Director for Quality and Growth, Latin America and the Caribbean for Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health. Honduras is the world’s fifth largest producer of coffee in volume. Despite their claim on the global market, many Honduran...
Jun 11, 2019
For communities in northern Kenya, livestock is the foundation of food security. Approximately 5.8 million people make a living as pastoralists, herding camels, cows, goats and sheep in search of water and food. These animals are valuable sources of nutrition and income for these families.
Jun 10, 2019
Policy makers are frustrated. On the one hand they lack the resources and local capacity to implement existing national agricultural strategies; on the other, they are overwhelmed by multiple paradigms and constantly-shifting approaches, and catching up seems impossible.
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Jun 10, 2019
In this new five-part series, the USAID/Rwanda PSDAG project shares thinking and lessons learned on a range of topics.
Jun 06, 2019
Each year, an estimated 2 million young people join the labor market in Bangladesh, exerting enormous pressure on the nation’s economy to generate employment opportunities. The agricultural sector would seem well placed to absorb these young workers...
Jun 04, 2019
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) Support activity. Please view the posting on Grants.gov for complete...
Jun 03, 2019
This is an amended re-issue of the RFP released on 27 March 2019. It has been revised to extend the deadline to 31 July 2019 and to permit ALL implementing partners to apply for this opportunity, regardless of the funder. The SCALE Award is now collecting research proposals from implementing...
Jun 03, 2019
The Legume Systems Innovation Lab is seeking concept notes to support Area of Inquiry 3: Analysis of sociocultural and/or economic motivators or barriers to legume utilization at various stages and scales within production and market systems. The deadline for the submission of concept notes is July...
Jun 03, 2019
In 2018, we formed an ad hoc forecast group to provide annual outlooks for Blue Nile River flow at the beginning of each East Africa summertime rainy season. The motivation for this effort is the impending completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
May 31, 2019
Life in rural Timor-Leste has few economic opportunities for families. USAID's Avansa Agrikultura Project is working to spur economic growth by supporting the development of ag-input stores, vegetable collection agencies, and small-scale food processors.
May 29, 2019
Most meteorological and hydrological services lack adequate infrastructure and have little experience generating seasonal precipitation forecasts to support farming practices and decision making. Meanwhile, weather conditions have become uncertain, in terms of timing and intensity...
May 29, 2019
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research is seeking cutting-edge legume systems research proposals for Area of Inquiry 2 - Integration of legumes within local/regional market systems, including trade . The deadline for the submission of concept notes is July 8, 2019. For more...
May 24, 2019
The Climate Hazards Center (CHC) and affiliates use a variety of tools and data sets, including Earth observations, to make advance predictions of rainfall and other factors that influence the livelihoods and overall food security of the world’s most vulnerable people.
May 20, 2019
The Legume Systems Innovation Lab is extending the Request for Concept Notes for Area of Inquiry 1: Integration of legumes into sustainable smallholder farming systems and agricultural landscapes. Proposals must be submitted on the Piestar RFx website by May 27, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight...
May 20, 2019
In central and southern parts of the subregion, planting of main season crops across Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and northern Tanzania has been disrupted by delayed onset of the March-May rains and severe early-season dryness coupled with above average temperatures.
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May 20, 2019
The Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (Feed the Future Inova) is an example of applying information about gendered decision-making and norms to increase women’s access to technology. In Mozambique’s agricultural sector, the use of improved agricultural inputs is low. The...
May 13, 2019
The USAID Feed the Future Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience is happy to share the launch of a new website aimed to provide coffee companies with the resources they need to combat climate change. The Climate Smart Coffee website, launched in early May, was created to increase private...
This webinar will provide a demonstration on how to use the tools on the Global Agricultural and Disaster Assessment System (GADAS) to do desktop analysis, and a case study on how USDA/FAS is using GADAS to build host country capacity with the Ministry of Agriculture in Honduras. GADAS is a...
Current capabilities for effective at-scale monitoring of smallholder agricultural systems are limited at best. However, increased availability of high- and medium-resolution Earth observation (EO) data and modern computational capacities mean that the promise of EO data for effective agricultural...
USAID and the Renovation & Rehabilitation Collective Action Network of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge (SCC) are hosted this webinar on Renovation & Rehabilitation (R&R) for Resilient Coffee Farms on April 24, 2019. Aging or diseased coffee trees are a major constraint to productivity...
In October 2017, a revised set of Feed the Future indicators was announced, in alignment with the Feed the Future results framework and the USG Global Food Security Strategy. In March 2018, Feed the Future's MEL Division published the updated Feed the Future Indicator Handbook , which contains...
In theory, Sub-Saharan Africa could feed a large part of the world. Yet the region struggles to achieve its full agricultural potential, let alone its potential in agricultural value addition and processed foods. In this webinar, presenters from the USAID Investment Support Program and Dalberg will...
There is no universally-accepted framework for how to measure the performance of agricultural extension and advisory services. The best-fit framework suggests an impact chain approach, where components of the system (e.g. governance and management structures, organizational and individual...
In the wake of fall armyworm's devastating effects on African agriculture, farmers are turning to pesticides as a means to combat the pest. Unfortunately, pesticides are not always well targeted or properly handled. This webinar will focus on the use of pesticides in Africa and the challenges for...
USAID’s Bureau for Food Security is working in partnership with experts from around the world to develop a set of tools to assist countries in addressing the Fall Armyworm. This Agrilinks webinar will walk you through the latest tools available, from country-specific decision guides to animated...
Fall Armyworm is here to stay. So, what can be done to address this threat to food security and farmer incomes? A key to effective management of FAW is farmer access to the full range of technologies used to control the pest. This webinar will walk through innovative tools available in Africa and...
Unsafe food threatens public health and undermines food security at local, regional and global levels. The benefits of extensive development activities targeting food insecurity are drained away when food products are contaminated. Microbial and chemical contaminants are of particular concern, as...
The USAID Bureau for Food Security's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Division invites you to the third installment in our Feed the Future MEL Webinar Series . New Indicators: Application of improved practices and technologies In October 2017, a revised set of Feed the Future indicators...
Agriculture and food policy is a critical development tool that can help direct agricultural transformation to best suit country needs and goals. On June 7, Agrilinks will host a special 30-minute Ask the Expert Chat for an online discussion and live audio Q&A on using policy to facilitate or...
Agriculture is an inherently risky activity. This risk exposure can make and keep farmers poor. Agricultural index insurance can help farmers avoid costly coping mechanisms and unlock opportunities for increased investment and greater resilience, but such positive development impacts largely depend...
Impact evaluations help attribute outcomes to a development intervention, which can be an elusive connection. Feed the Future is excited to showcase findings from its recently completed impact evaluation that assessed the impact of Water Users Associations (WUAs) on water and land productivity,...
Technology has the potential to scale up agricultural production and get timely information and tools into the hands of farmers to inform their agricultural planning and investments. On Thursday, April 26, Agrilinks will host a special Ask Ag Online Chat in conjunction with the organizers of the...
Women play a unique role guaranteeing household food security and building resilience to shocks and stresses. While discussions at the intersection of gender equity/social inclusion and resilience often focus on the vulnerabilities of women, girls, and disadvantaged persons during disasters, these...
Improving staple crop production is widely viewed as crucial for increasing food security and reducing poverty in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). However, smallholder households in SSA who cultivate maize and other grains face two major post‐harvest challenges. First, pests cause post‐harvest loss of up...
Join us in person, or online, for this event to learn more about the keys to commercializing agricultural research.
Can small-scale irrigation empower women? This is one of the critical questions that the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) , led by Texas A&M University, has been set up to investigate. Despite the unique needs, roles, and norms that relate women and men with...
As smallholder-based agricultural systems struggle to adapt to rapid changes in weather and other factors, this discussion will present lessons and approaches on aligning private sector investment with the research and donor community.