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
Apr 19, 2019
Climate change requires that we breed crops and livestock better suited to new conditions. Think about the last food you ate. Maybe it was a meal or maybe you’re snacking on something right now. Have you ever considered the amount of effort that has gone into plant and animal breeding to produce...
Today over half of the world population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this number will increase to a staggering 70%, with 90% of the projected urban population growth taking place in Africa and Asia. Ensuring resilient and sustainable food systems that can adapt to the global urban transition will...
Apr 16, 2019
Malawi’s soy producers will soon have more commercially viable seed varieties to choose from.
Please join CSIS for the launch of our newest report, Building a Big Tent for Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia, which examines the past wins, current endeavors, and future challenges of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA).
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture is hosting a webinar introducing the concept of the "dry chain," to protect the quality and safety of dried commodities.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems is seeking cutting-edge legume systems research proposals for Area of Inquiry 1 - Integration of legumes into sustainable smallholder farming systems and agricultural landscapes. The deadline for submission of concept notes is May 20, 2019. For...
Apr 08, 2019
The USAID Bureau for Food Security is pleased to announce the release of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement . The Crop Improvement Innovation Lab will invest in the development of new and improved breeding tools and methods that...
Apr 08, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems is seeking cutting-edge legume systems research proposals for Area of Inquiry 1 - Integration of legumes into sustainable smallholder farming systems and agricultural landscapes. The deadline for submission of concept notes is May 20, 2019. For...
Apr 08, 2019
Samir Regmi said that due to his partnership with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management , his small agribusiness in Nepal is “renowned” for selling quality bio-pesticides, insect traps, and other Integrated Pest Management (IPM) solutions. Regmi’s business is not the...
Apr 05, 2019
This toolkit , funded by the USAID Bureau for Africa and produced by FHI360, is designed to help projects, organizations and individuals who want to use low-cost video in their development projects. The toolkit does not assume that video is always the most appropriate solution for capturing and...
Apr 19, 2019
Climate change requires that we breed crops and livestock better suited to new conditions. Think about the last food you ate. Maybe it was a meal or maybe you’re snacking on something right now. Have you ever considered the amount of effort that has gone into plant and animal breeding to produce...
Apr 16, 2019
Malawi’s soy producers will soon have more commercially viable seed varieties to choose from.
Apr 08, 2019
The USAID Bureau for Food Security is pleased to announce the release of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement . The Crop Improvement Innovation Lab will invest in the development of new and improved breeding tools and methods that...
Apr 08, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems is seeking cutting-edge legume systems research proposals for Area of Inquiry 1 - Integration of legumes into sustainable smallholder farming systems and agricultural landscapes. The deadline for submission of concept notes is May 20, 2019. For...
Apr 08, 2019
Samir Regmi said that due to his partnership with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management , his small agribusiness in Nepal is “renowned” for selling quality bio-pesticides, insect traps, and other Integrated Pest Management (IPM) solutions. Regmi’s business is not the...
Apr 05, 2019
This toolkit , funded by the USAID Bureau for Africa and produced by FHI360, is designed to help projects, organizations and individuals who want to use low-cost video in their development projects. The toolkit does not assume that video is always the most appropriate solution for capturing and...
Apr 04, 2019
This post was written by Ilisa Gertner and Caryl Merten of Chemonics’ Agriculture and Food Security Practice and originally appeared on the Chemonics blog . As international development professionals, we strive for sustainable project results and an evidence base for our approaches. But the truth...
Apr 01, 2019
The SCALE Award is now collecting research proposals from implementing partners funded by the USAID Office of Food for Peace (FFP), with the aim of building the evidence base for interventions at the intersection of agriculture and the management of water resources.
Mar 28, 2019
Sustainable Intensification offers an approach to evaluate and balance the environmental, economic and social objectives of agriculture, improving the efficient use of resources for agriculture with the goal of producing more food on the same amount of land but with reduced negative environmental...
Mar 25, 2019
This post was written by Gary Fields, Senior Manager for Content, Lutheran World Relief. Prossy Namutebi is a young woman entrepreneur who runs a farm supply store in the village of Butenga, in southwestern Uganda. On this day, in her role as an agricultural extension agent, she is crouching with...
Mar 25, 2019
New working paper assesses the current state of practice for the representation of food security indicators in agricultural systems models. There is broad agreement among the international community about the importance of linkages between agriculture and food security. However, a working paper by...
Mar 22, 2019
Agricultural production is only one of many factors that impacts global food security. Some factors, like gender, cannot be overlooked when the goal is to feed the world’s rapidly growing population.
Mar 21, 2019
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs and investors are intensely interested in the preparation of new regulations on the production and marketing of planting materials for vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs), such as potato and sweet potato. The new regulations may...
Mar 20, 2019
Unsafe food undermines food and nutritional security, human development, the broader food economy and international trade. You cannot have food security without food safety.
Mar 18, 2019
Sometimes, market systems inhibit productivity growth and depress livelihoods. Sometimes, there is too much market access for too many kinds of business, so too little is done to tackle problems of stagnant productivity and declining incomes for poor producers.
Mar 14, 2019
Research and project evaluations frequently cite access to greater quantities and higher quality of feed as limiting factors to livestock production levels worldwide. Pasture grazing has been the traditional approach to livestock rearing, but land use has begun to shift.
Mar 13, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access has just launched a new project in partnership with the Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) to improve the quality of agricultural index insurance available to the nation’s small-scale farmers.
Mar 08, 2019
For this International Women’s Day, we see the promises and pitfalls of technology through the eyes of three Ethiopian women.
Mar 07, 2019
Since the turn of the 20 th century, Vietnam has undergone a remarkable, major change. It has transitioned from a divided post-war region that was isolated from the rest of the world into one that is globally integrated. The nation is becoming industrialized and has growing exports to show for it...
Mar 05, 2019
By adopting environmentally-friendly pasture management methods, female dairy farmers can unlock the dormant cattle industry in Colombia.
Please register for the webinar here . You will receive an email with instructions for joining the webinar about a week in advance of the event. USAID and the Renovation & Rehabilitation Collective Action Network of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge (SCC) are hosting this webinar on Renovation...
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.
