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
Aug 16, 2019
An effective food safety system can provide assurance that food supplied to consumers is nutritious, of good quality for domestic consumption and adequate for export .
Aug 09, 2019
The success of female farmers in Tajikistan starts with a culture of collaborating, learning, and adapting.
Aug 07, 2019
A new study of water markets in Bangladesh sheds light on how to improve water conservation and cost effectiveness in irrigation systems.
Aug 06, 2019
The University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries.
The 2019 Cracking the Nut conference will take place on October 14-15, 2019 at the King Fahd Palace Hotel in Dakar, Senegal. The conference will focus on balancing public concerns for food security with private, market-based solutions. Applying a food systems lens, this two-day learning event will...
Aug 05, 2019
The “Working with Smallholders” handbook aims to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient and productive agribusiness supply chains, and to illustrate their developmental impact.
Aug 02, 2019
The Soybean Innovation Lab is offering Africa's first free, open-access, certificate-based online course for practitioners to get certified in integrated pest management and pesticide safety. Register for the course now!
Jul 31, 2019
In Nepal, seed companies and cooperatives produce most of the seed for the formal sector. Like any enterprise, they need access to finance in order to grow and increase their production capacity. However, unlike in other commercial agribusinesses, bank lending is uncommon in the seed business, as financial institutions lack understanding of the sector. To solve this, USAID’s Feed the Future Nepal Seed and Fertilizer activity has expanded its seed sector support to include finance, and is working hand-in-hand with commercial banks to develop and expand access to innovative financial products for seed companies and cooperatives.
Jul 29, 2019
Catastrophic weather events are leading to an increase in severely food insecure populations. The Global Agricultural and Disaster Assessment System (GADAS) is a free GIS platform that allows users to monitor conditions on the ground, highlight regional risk posed by natural disasters and spatially model potential disaster impacts. It provides access to a vast array of high-temporal, real-time data streams from various climate and weather sources.
Jul 25, 2019
In demonstration plots in Kenya, smallholder farmers evaluate and rank maize varieties according to their preferred traits — a feedback that is crucial to CIMMYT’s maize breeding work.
Aug 16, 2019
An effective food safety system can provide assurance that food supplied to consumers is nutritious, of good quality for domestic consumption and adequate for export .
Aug 09, 2019
The success of female farmers in Tajikistan starts with a culture of collaborating, learning, and adapting.
Aug 07, 2019
A new study of water markets in Bangladesh sheds light on how to improve water conservation and cost effectiveness in irrigation systems.
Aug 06, 2019
The University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries.
Aug 05, 2019
The “Working with Smallholders” handbook aims to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient and productive agribusiness supply chains, and to illustrate their developmental impact.
Aug 02, 2019
The Soybean Innovation Lab is offering Africa's first free, open-access, certificate-based online course for practitioners to get certified in integrated pest management and pesticide safety. Register for the course now!
Jul 31, 2019
In Nepal, seed companies and cooperatives produce most of the seed for the formal sector. Like any enterprise, they need access to finance in order to grow and increase their production capacity. However, unlike in other commercial agribusinesses, bank lending is uncommon in the seed business, as financial institutions lack understanding of the sector. To solve this, USAID’s Feed the Future Nepal Seed and Fertilizer activity has expanded its seed sector support to include finance, and is working hand-in-hand with commercial banks to develop and expand access to innovative financial products for seed companies and cooperatives.
Jul 29, 2019
Catastrophic weather events are leading to an increase in severely food insecure populations. The Global Agricultural and Disaster Assessment System (GADAS) is a free GIS platform that allows users to monitor conditions on the ground, highlight regional risk posed by natural disasters and spatially model potential disaster impacts. It provides access to a vast array of high-temporal, real-time data streams from various climate and weather sources.
Jul 25, 2019
In demonstration plots in Kenya, smallholder farmers evaluate and rank maize varieties according to their preferred traits — a feedback that is crucial to CIMMYT’s maize breeding work.
Jul 25, 2019
Get expert insights into sources and control of variability in aflatoxin testing, including sampling and testing variability and testing quality.
Jul 22, 2019
Drip irrigation is helping to transform small-scale farming in Malawi, offering widespread benefits in productivity and income.
Jul 19, 2019
Over the past year, both USAID and the Gates Foundation ran competitions to solicit technology solutions for agricultural problems in developing countries. The two competitions attracted very different audiences, but when the Gates Foundation brought winners from both challenges together, the groups' differing perspectives resulted in interesting connections and potential new collaborations.
Jul 19, 2019
Around the world, ocean dead zones are growing at alarming rates, making entire swaths of underwater habitats uninhabitable by marine life. Most of this is directly tied to agriculture and the way in which it contributes to soil or land degradation.
Jul 18, 2019
This infomational sheet may be downloaded and shared widely. It shows statistics about some of the gender issues related to smallholder farmers in developing and emerging countries, and it highlights how to empower women in particular.
Jul 15, 2019
The fall armyworm is becoming a household name around the world, but not for good reasons – the pest, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, devours over 300 plant species, including maize, which feeds millions of people .
Jul 15, 2019
Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) is a USAID-supported global partnership that connects climate and environmental science with data streams to generate decision support tools and training for decision-makers in developing countries. The CSRD consortium in South Asia is led by the...
Jul 12, 2019
Ethiopian farmers have a name for Parthenium hysterophorus : “Faramsissa,” meaning, “sign your land away.” The name is fitting – Parthenium wipes out biodiversity, reduces crop yields, causes human health issues, and taints milk when consumed by livestock.
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Jul 11, 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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Jul 09, 2019
As horticulture for development becomes an increasingly critical field globally, these nine webinars off early-career professionals a chance to brush up on both project management skills and horticulture topics related to the contexts of international agricultural development.
Jul 08, 2019
Low yields among smallholders jeopardize incomes and farmers’ ability to provide nutritious food for their families. In Guatemala, where malnutrition and stunting rates are among the highest in the world, low yields and an overreliance on nutrient-deficient maize exacerbates poverty and hunger for...
Smallholder farmers are critical to global food security and economic growth, however they have largely been overlooked by the private sector, constraining their productivity and income potential. To successfully engage the private sector and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, it is...
The recording for this webinar is now available! 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...
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...