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
Sep 24, 2018
Extension services are vital to the delivery of information and ideas, and international collaboration is key to ensuring that content is in line with markets and value chain demands.
Sep 21, 2018
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation has launched a new solicitation on behalf of USAID's Bureau for Food Security for new private sector partnerships. Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation and USAID seek to partner with private sector businesses to empower farmers with the tools and...
Improving Nutrition through Private Sector Engagement across Food Systems The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), an advisory committee to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will convene a public meeting on October 16, 2018 to explore opportunities...
Sep 20, 2018
To prepare for Feed the Future’s new monitoring and evaluation framework under the Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS), implementing partners (IPs) explore both challenges and strategies to help guide Feed the Future programs during this transition. The recent posts highlighted below offer...
Sep 20, 2018
Learn about all of SIL's recent advancements in the September Newsletter! Access the newsletter here. SIL's September 2018 Newsletter features the following articles: University of Illinois Leading the Way in Global Food Security - This piece was co-authored by Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis and...
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Sep 19, 2018
New research shows that promoting low-cost but advanced farming methods through agricultural extension can significantly increase food security and resilience, especially when the higher cost of improved inputs keeps them out of reach.
Sep 18, 2018
Mozambique has about 1,000 public extension workers for the entire country's 3.8 million farming households. That means every extension worker has about 3,800 households to support. Aside from this impossible ratio, public extension workers lack equipment, education and incentives to properly...
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Sep 18, 2018
The draft Phase 2 Feed the Future Learning Agenda is currently open for public comment. Please review the overview document and provide your feedback through this survey form . The survey will close on Friday, September 28th 11:59 PM EDT. This process will be used to gather your input on the...
Sep 17, 2018
Nepal is a nation marked by one of the world’s most unique terrains, where climate and vegetation shift like an emerging seed. Most residents are involved in small-scale agriculture, but commercial and household agricultural production depends significantly on the availability of resources and...
USAID’s Bureau for Food Security is hosting a suite of five webinars designed to increase awareness of Agency tools and strategies for catalyzing finance in the agriculture sector. The first webinar will be hosted on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 10am EST, and the remaining webinars will be...
