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
As scientific researchers continue to investigate the complexities of the animal microbiome, our mission for the 2nd Microbiome Movement – Animal Health & Nutrition Summit is simple: Unite pioneering industry and academic researchers to lay out the foundational framework around the unique...
FineResults Research Services is holding a high impact training course in Disaster Risk Reduction in Nairobi, Kenya from 21 st to 25 th October 2019. Event information Course name: Disaster Risk Reduction Venue: FineResults Research, Nairobi, Kenya Event date: 21 - 25 October 2019 Course fee: KES...
Oct 14, 2019
Energy can unlock agriculture’s potential, yet smallholder farmers are least likely to have access to modern energy service. Factor[e] principals Morgan DeFoort and Seth Silverman explore the opportunity.
Oct 11, 2019
In a new working paper , we provide evidence of a rare agricultural extension success story. The study shows that high-quality extension services can meaningfully increase farmer production and profits.
The rise of medium-scale farms in Africa is affecting the region in diverse ways that are difficult to generalize. Many such farms are a source of technical change and commercialization of African agriculture; they attract agribusiness investment and improve market access conditions for all nearby...
Oct 10, 2019
In the face of climate change and volatile prices, coffee cooperatives in South America are creating a more resilient future by investing in young people.
Oct 09, 2019
At the turn of the 21st century, the development sector realized that alignment and partnership are paramount to achieving a shared vision of a prospering world. Therefore, following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (which was more of a symptomatic approach to tacking development and...
Oct 08, 2019
Grants from USDA, Elevate Ventures will help JUA Technologies International move past research and development
Oct 07, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation, seeks private sector partners to contribute to accelerate the scaling of smallholder irrigated production in Ghana and Ethiopia.
Oct 07, 2019
This post was written by Charity Hanif, Chief of Party - Feed the Future Resilient Agricultural markets Activity (RAMA) - Nacala Corridor, Winrock International Traditionally, small farmers in Mozambique prepare their ground with a short-handled hoe and plant by hand, a labor-intensive method that...
Oct 14, 2019
Energy can unlock agriculture’s potential, yet smallholder farmers are least likely to have access to modern energy service. Factor[e] principals Morgan DeFoort and Seth Silverman explore the opportunity.
Oct 11, 2019
In a new working paper , we provide evidence of a rare agricultural extension success story. The study shows that high-quality extension services can meaningfully increase farmer production and profits.
Oct 10, 2019
In the face of climate change and volatile prices, coffee cooperatives in South America are creating a more resilient future by investing in young people.
Oct 09, 2019
At the turn of the 21st century, the development sector realized that alignment and partnership are paramount to achieving a shared vision of a prospering world. Therefore, following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (which was more of a symptomatic approach to tacking development and...
Oct 08, 2019
Grants from USDA, Elevate Ventures will help JUA Technologies International move past research and development
Oct 07, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation, seeks private sector partners to contribute to accelerate the scaling of smallholder irrigated production in Ghana and Ethiopia.
Oct 07, 2019
This post was written by Charity Hanif, Chief of Party - Feed the Future Resilient Agricultural markets Activity (RAMA) - Nacala Corridor, Winrock International Traditionally, small farmers in Mozambique prepare their ground with a short-handled hoe and plant by hand, a labor-intensive method that...
Oct 03, 2019
The USAID-funded CISRI program is a farmer-centered approach to catalyzing locally-driven improvements to climate information systems.
Oct 02, 2019
Small and medium-scale farmers in Guinea face a common problem that threatens food security, constrains agricultural production and limits incomes. And young entrepreneurs-in-training are helping solve it with motorbikes.
Oct 02, 2019
This is a follow-on to the March 14, 2019, Agrilnks article ‘ Better Livestock Feed, Better Animal Source Foods .’ As I wrote in my previous piece, livestock feed safety and infrastructure can be a pathway to food security with the right market systems development approaches. Today, let’s discuss...
Oct 01, 2019
This blog is written Krista Jacobs, USAID Gender influences which crops are grown, which animals are raised, and which technologies are used. It influences how households earn a livelihood and manage risk, what children eat and how they are cared for. In homes, fields, factories, marketplaces, and...
Sep 27, 2019
In Kenya, coffee travels a long way before it ends up for sale to private sector buyers on the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. Most coffee is produced by smallholder farmers and then aggregated by cooperatives who wet mill, dry, and send the coffee to be processed into green coffee. Concurrently,...
Sep 27, 2019
Beverage company AB InBev and its Uganda subsidiary Nile Breweries has explored ways to increase the resilience of their small-scale grain farmers to the effects of climate change. Their process has been documented by the Sustainable Food Lab in the case study Improving Grain Sector Climate-Smart...
Sep 26, 2019
In Senegal, Feed the Future-supported extension networks that served more than 150,000 producers continue to stay active and grow, even after project closeout.
Sep 25, 2019
This blog is written by Aly-Khan Jamal, Dalberg, Shyam Sundaram, Dalberg, and Simon Allan, Dalberg Agricultural finance is essential for achieving development objectives. Expanding access to agricultural finance provides agricultural producers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the...
Sep 25, 2019
This blog is written by Yvette Neisser, a technical writer at DAI who participated in the SPA Program evaluation in Rwanda in 2018 and Rich Magnani who was the Chief of Party for the RADP-North project. Last year, when I walked into a health center in Eastern Rwanda to talk to participants in a...
Sep 24, 2019
Feed the Future has launched a Feed the Future Innovation Exchange , a virtual platform designed to accelerate impact by connecting researchers working on food security challenges with funders and scaling partners. Feed the Future , the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative,...
Sep 23, 2019
Looking to ensure that coffee farmers continue to invest in coffee in ways that enable them to grow production and quality in the face of climate change, Olam , a global agribusiness and one of the leading green coffee origin exporters, teamed up with the International Institute of Tropical...
Sep 19, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience at UC Davis invites researchers at U.S. universities to submit proposals for four-year research projects that develop or testing innovative ways to promote food security and resilience worldwide.
Sep 19, 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...
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...