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Local service provider, Mithen Chakma of Baghaichari, Bangladesh, applying vermicompost in his garden.

Strengthening Food Systems to Address Undernutrition Challenges

By addressing supply chain constraints and food environment weaknesses, a project has triggered positive changes that benefit the most disadvantaged communities.

Becky Neely

May 10, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition
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Shaping Our New Normal: An Unprecedented Opportunity to Reimagine a More Inclusive International Development Workplace

Is the development community at risk of losing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) gains due to the pandemic? What DEI implications should be considered when designing future working models?
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Market Systems and Partnerships MSP

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Michelle LeMeur

May 06, 2022
COVID-19 Gender
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Increasing Market Opportunity for Sorghum and Pearl Millet in West Africa

It’s important to me that our research actually has an impact in Africa. I’ve never viewed research as stopping at one place in development; I’ve looked at it more as...
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Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab (SMIL)

May 06, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth
A group of people attending the convergence meeting between agriculture stakeholders for decision-making.

The New Normal in Agriculture: Convergence, Collaboration and Inclusion

For strengthening policy formation and its qualitative implementation for improving the life of small/marginal farmers, it is a must to converge, collaborate and be inclusive in our system approach.

Sugandha Munshi

May 05, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Gender Policy and Governance
Researchers in a boat. Front row from left to right is Phannara and Phun, and in the back row from left to right is Champapao, Chakriya Chum and Sreyden, visiting fishermen along the Sre Ambel River to collect fish for nutrition analysis.

Building Capacity: Graduate Student in Cambodia Working on the First Nutritional Database for Fish

One Innovation Lab for Fish project is helping develop a nutritional database for fish, which will provide the knowledge to help fill in gaps and limitations in fishery communities.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

May 04, 2022
Climate and Natural Resources Gender Resilience Youth
Group of fish farmers holding certificates.

Aquaculture Training Teaches Bangladesh Farmers Business Practices to Be More Profitable

A day-long training workshop for fish farmers on scientific and farm business management practices in Bangladesh provides the knowledge needed to diversify farming operations to earn more income.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

May 02, 2022
Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Resilience Youth
A woman in a headscarf and dress talks on a mobile phone against a stone background.

Practical Lessons on Empowering Women through Digital Finance

These case studies share lessons learned and best practices for promoting women’s economic empowerment through digital financial services.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment

Whitney Moret

Apr 28, 2022
Gender
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Safer Food Reaches Major Senegal Supermarkets: Creating a Market-Linked Food Safety Culture with Growing Food Businesses

Growing food businesses in Senegal face challenges in establishing and maintaining market positions, particularly as consumer concerns about food safety grow.

Food Enterprise Solutions (FES)

Apr 19, 2022
Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender
Mary Joel standing in front of a barn with cows.

Mary Joel: A Female Farmer’s Story of Resilience

By building the capacity of female farmers through cooperatives, Nuru strengthens food systems and supports resilience at the household level while elevating the role of women.

Ian Schwenke

Apr 06, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth
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Empowering African Women in Agribusiness in the Realm of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

As March is Gender Equality month, we close the month by celebrating the resilience of female farmers globally who transcend odds to nurture the soil and feed the world.
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James Yi

Agrilinks Team

Mar 31, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Resilience

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Using Digital Finance to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture

Mar 30, 2022 online
Learn about promoting women’s economic empowerment in agriculture using digital financial services.
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Women’s Empowerment in Beyond-Production Activities

Mar 31, 2021 online
Women engage in a variety of agricultural roles across the value chain. Many approaches, promising practices, and tools to support women’s empowerment in production have emerged in recent years. However...
Markets and Trade Gender
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Why Inclusion Matters: Featuring Voices from the Field

Jul 29, 2020 online
Inclusive Development Month on Agrilinks is wrapping up with with a webinar that will report on the most recent evidence on what inclusion means across varying contexts, why inclusion is so important to reaching our goals of reducing hunger and poverty, and hearing voices from the field regarding their own experiences on why inclusion matters.
Gender Policy and Governance Youth
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Webinar: What’s lurking in your value chain? Uncovering the hidden costs of gender-based violence in agriculture

Oct 30, 2019 online
Please join Agrilinks and the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program on the eve of Halloween for a webinar on gender dimensions in agriculture. This webinar will explore the...
Gender
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Overcoming Gender Barriers to Accessing and Using Climate Information Services

Apr 25, 2018 online
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...
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Resilience
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Can Small-Scale Irrigation Empower Women?

Oct 31, 2017 online
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...
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender
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Your Input is Requested: The new Global Food Security Strategy Indicators

Jun 15, 2017 to Jun 30, 2017 online
See final list of GFSS indicators submitted to the U.S. Congress in October 2017. [Note: Now that the indicators have been sent to Congress, the other documents and links on...
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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Women Without Borders: Gender and Informal Cross-Border Trade

Mar 08, 2017 online
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...
Markets and Trade Gender Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety
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Ask Ag About... Positive Youth Development

Feb 22, 2017 online
Involving youth in agriculture has become a major focus in development, as many countries continue to struggle with youth unemployment. Join this month's Ask Ag Online Chat, where the Feed...
Youth Education and Extension Gender Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance
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Webinar: Addressing Food Safety in Animal Source Foods for Improved Nutrition

Jan 25, 2017 online
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...
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The Global Food Security Crisis: Exploring the Evidence Base and Lessons from the Past to Strengthen Agricultural, Nutrition, and Food Systems in the Face of Shocks

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