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
Feb 26, 2020
When the Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) began their work in Ghana in 2016, they saw a pressing need for mechanized crop threshers to relieve the huge burden of stick threshing that is often done by women and young people.
Feb 25, 2020
Fighting Newcastle Disease for rural communities in Africa.
Feb 24, 2020
Use of non-conventional collateral in agricultural lending, together with an effective registry system and appropriate regulatory frameworks, can contribute to improved access to and use of appropriate and affordable credit by smallholder women farmers.
Feb 21, 2020
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?
Feb 20, 2020
A new business supplying animal feeds to rural Niger is helping to overcome vast distances and other hurdles that constrain the productivity and incomes of goat and sheep farmers
Feb 19, 2020
One-year awards of up to $15,000 per research team (mentor and one or more graduate students and/or postdocs) are available.
Feb 17, 2020
Farmers need to balance coffee quality with climate resiliency.
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Feb 14, 2020
Shrubs that grow wild in West Africa could be key in boosting yield and giving farmers assurance that they can make a profitable crop, even in the drought-prone, food-insecure Sahel region.
Feb 13, 2020
An update on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut including their current accomplishments and future goals.
Feb 13, 2020
Soun is the first farmer in his village to use a mechanized tractor — now, he can add innovator to his list of titles as well.
Feb 26, 2020
When the Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) began their work in Ghana in 2016, they saw a pressing need for mechanized crop threshers to relieve the huge burden of stick threshing that is often done by women and young people.
Feb 25, 2020
Fighting Newcastle Disease for rural communities in Africa.
Feb 24, 2020
Use of non-conventional collateral in agricultural lending, together with an effective registry system and appropriate regulatory frameworks, can contribute to improved access to and use of appropriate and affordable credit by smallholder women farmers.
Feb 21, 2020
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?
Feb 20, 2020
A new business supplying animal feeds to rural Niger is helping to overcome vast distances and other hurdles that constrain the productivity and incomes of goat and sheep farmers
Feb 19, 2020
One-year awards of up to $15,000 per research team (mentor and one or more graduate students and/or postdocs) are available.
Feb 17, 2020
Farmers need to balance coffee quality with climate resiliency.
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Feb 14, 2020
Shrubs that grow wild in West Africa could be key in boosting yield and giving farmers assurance that they can make a profitable crop, even in the drought-prone, food-insecure Sahel region.
Feb 13, 2020
An update on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut including their current accomplishments and future goals.
Feb 13, 2020
Soun is the first farmer in his village to use a mechanized tractor — now, he can add innovator to his list of titles as well.
Feb 12, 2020
Researchers in North Carolina have updated a risk assessment tool that empowers peanut farmers there to decide when a pest, weed or weather condition threatens yield enough to invest in fighting it.
Feb 11, 2020
In 2015, the International Rice Research Institute, in collaboration with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management, began testing a locally adapted barrier system to both protect rice from rodents and decrease labor time in Cambodian fields.
Feb 10, 2020
One of the tricks to building resilience against crop pests is adequately preparing for them, which is what one collaboration between a pheromone company and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management has been achieving for over a decade.
Feb 10, 2020
When Ghanaian groundnut farmers are given tarps for free, they will use them to dry their crops. But, when they have to buy the tarps — even when they are given an economic incentive to produce low-aflatoxin nuts — farmers are reluctant to spend the money.
Feb 07, 2020
The soybean industry in Malawi suffers from a lack of new, improved varieties for producers to meet the growing demand from processors. In order to address this issue, USAID’s Feed the Future AgDiv Activity partnered with the Soybean Innovation Lab's Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials.
Feb 06, 2020
Increased consumption of dairy and meat is inextricably tied to creating better livelihoods in rural Bangladesh. Read about how ACDI/VOCA worked to overcome nutritional barriers.
Feb 06, 2020
Have the different players in the provision of extension and advisory services in the agriculture sector considered how they can go beyond just creating these services just for the sake of it?
Feb 04, 2020
Meet Dorothy Magesse, a Nutrition and Social Inclusion Director for the Feed the Future Tanzania Mboga na Matunda (FTFT-MnM) Activity.
Feb 03, 2020
From creating climate-resilient sorghum to improving small-scale irrigation, Feed the Future funds innovations at the forefront of food security.
Feb 03, 2020
Prolonged drought has caused massive crop failure in Southern Africa and now a record 45 million people are facing hunger. “This year’s drought is unprecedented, causing food shortages on a scale we have never seen here before,” said Dr. Michael Charles, Head of the International Federation of the...
Global agricultural development is increasingly shaped by the unprecedented growth of the digital economy. Digital technologies have demonstrated the potential to redefine economic growth models, empower poor people with new communications tools, and facilitate more productive interactions and...
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.