The U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Food Security (USAID BFS) has collaborated with leaders and practitioners across the development landscape to share knowledge, good practices and lessons learned...

March 8, 2017 Around 70 to 80 percent of informal cross-border traders (ICBT) in the southern Africa region are women. Although cross-border trade helps many women become economically empowered, it...

January 25, 2017 This is the third event in the Livestock & Household Nutrition Learning Series, convened by Land O’Lakes International Development and the International Livestock Research Institute and funded...

Feed the Future has, along with partners, recently unearthed some powerful findings on how to make systems for producing and delivering breeder and foundation seed (aka early generation seed) work...

Having access to finance is crucial for facilitating expansion and scale of small and growing businesses (SGBs). SGBs are commercially viable businesses with significant potential for growth that seek growth...

Meeting food safety standards is an increasing constraint to market access for farmers in developing countries. Recent studies show that the global health burden of foodborne disease (FBD) is equivalent...

From India and Ethiopia to Malawi and Madagascar, interactive voice response (IVR) is increasingly being used by agricultural extension services. Often detested by Americans because of overuse in customer service...

March's Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (GLEE) took place in Lusaka, Zambia. The USAID Bureau for Food Security, in collaboration with the USAID/Zambia Mission and others, planned this...

Correctly applied pesticides and fertilizers can significantly increase yields. But many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are reluctant to invest in these inputs out of concern that they' will receive...

Many smallholder farmers rely on local seed varieties to produce staple food crops. Distributed through informal systems, farmers select varieties based on a number of factors including environmental considerations, socioeconomic...