How was the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) conceived? Piloted 11 years ago by USAID’s Mission in Bangladesh, the tool has evolved into a more user-friendly index through feedback.
Katie Cheney from Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) explains how the WEAI tool can be used to increase women’s decision-making power in agricultural and food systems activities.
The Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program developed a series of resources on promoting women’s decision-making power in USAID agriculture systems programming.
Read this success story to find out how the Fish Innovation Lab’s Samaki Salama activity is using cooking demonstrations to help improve the health of families in Kenyan communities.
The women’s penitentiary in Quillabamba supported the inmates in starting the Dulce Esperanza group to produce chocolate to generate income for their children while they are incarcerated.
Please see BD4FS’ video, “Food Safety for a Prosperous Tomorrow” in celebration of World Food Safety Day, and how we are promoting a culture of food safety in Senegal.
Read the Applying Lean Management in Aquaculture Production project’s success story about how Sunday Isomo has improved organization on his farm, minimized waste and reduced the cost of pumping water.
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...
Jan 11, 2017 to Jan 27, 2017Online Discussion
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
This AgExchange is being held in conjunction with a USAID-sponsored session on January 17 at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference XXIV.The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food...
Dec 14, 2016Ronald Reagan Building - Oceanic Room
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C., 20004, United States
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...
The Agrilinks team will host a webinar component of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (CSA-GLEE) session, Why Does Addressing Gender and Nutrition Matter for Climate-Smart Agriculture?, and...
Extension professionals are fully committed to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening communities, but there is still a great need across the board to better integrate gender and nutrition into their...
Join this special webinar and discover how the Feed the Future Gender-Sensitive Climate-Smart Agriculture for Nutrition (G-CAN) initiative aims to support USAID on the new Global Food Security Strategy. Specifically...
The high prevalence of violence in Central America is a major human and institutional development challenge that the Feed the Future project, Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education (InnovATE), has...
One of the major challenges for producer-owned cooperatives, farmer organizations and out-grower schemes alike is the lack of farmer loyalty exemplified by side selling to other entities. Although loyalty plays...
This webinar covered the World Bank Group's newly released report, Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016: Comparing regulatory good practices. During the webinar, presenters: Recapped the objectives and methodology of...
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...
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