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Feed the Future Business Drivers for Food Safety (BD4FS) Celebrates World Food Safety Day

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.

Food Enterprise Solutions (FES)

Jun 14, 2022
Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Youth
In this group picture, Isomo (first from right) did field work with attendants as Elizabeth Akuwa (first from left) monitored.

Fish Innovation Lab Trainees Identify Areas of Waste and Make Improvements at the Farm Level

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.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

Jun 08, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Amélia smiling in her soybean seed multiplication field.

Empowering Female Farmers to Close the Gender Yield Gap

Capacity strengthening and access to new technologies and markets are critical for female farmers to close the gender yield gap and improve food and nutrition security, livelihoods and resilience.
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Steve Boahen

Carlos Malita

Alexander Nimo Wiredu

Canon Norris Engoke Savala

Feed the Future Mozambique Improved Seeds for Better Agriculture

Jun 07, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Gender Resilience
Dr. Kathleen Colverson is pictured with two Kenyan grad students and a poultry farmer.

“Bring Your Wife, Your Daughter or Your Sister”: Dr. Kathleen Colverson on Gender in Agricultural Development

For more than 25 years, Dr. Kathleen Colverson has brought a gender lens to agricultural projects. Today she is a leading advocate for women’s inclusion in food safety research and...
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Jun 06, 2022
Food Safety Gender
Sabitra Kumari Tharu

A Returned Migrant Forced Back to Nepal Due to the COVID-19 Crisis Can Now Provide for Her Family

A returned migrant forced back to Nepal due to the COVID-19 crisis, Sabitra Kumari Tharu, is now free from remorse and the excruciating pain of not being able to provide...

Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)

Jun 06, 2022
Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Gender
Farmers weeding a paddy field in Nepal.

Gender Barriers to Irrigation Technologies in Nepal

Policy and program interventions must be aligned to changing aspirations, supporting sustainable and inclusive development of rural agrarian societies, particularly for women and marginalized farmers.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Jun 02, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Gender
A panel on a stage during the opening session of the workshop.

Agricultural Mechanization in Bangladesh — The Future

The Bangladesh Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia Mechanization and Extension Activity held a workshop for agricultural mechanization value chain actors in Dhaka on March 21-22, 2022.
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Nur-A-Mahajabin Khan

May 26, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Policy and Governance Resilience Youth
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

Laura Kim

Holly Krueger

Michelle LeMeur

May 06, 2022
COVID-19 Gender
Person sorting grain.

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

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Increasing Genetic Gains for Food Security in the Developing World: Identifying innovative solutions to legumes, roots, tubers and bananas breeding

Jan 11, 2017 to Jan 27, 2017 Online Discussion Right here on this event page! 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...
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Nutrition Policy and Governance Gender
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Strengthening Early Generation Seed Systems in Africa and Beyond

Dec 14, 2016 Ronald 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...
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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Relationships for Resilience: Understanding and Integrating Gender and Nutrition in CSA

Dec 08, 2016 online
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...
Climate and Natural Resources Gender Nutrition Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Youth
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Breaking Barriers: Integrating Gender and Nutrition Into Extension Services

Nov 16, 2016 online
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...
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade
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Yes, G-CAN! Endorsing Food Security With Gender-Responsive and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Nov 10, 2016 online
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...
Gender Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity
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From Citizen Security to Food Security: A cross-sector discussion of violence in Central America

Jun 20, 2016 online
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...
Youth Education and Extension Gender Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Policy and Governance
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Research in Action: Insights about Loyalty and Governance in Farmer-Based Organizations

May 25, 2016 online
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...
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Policy and Governance Gender
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture

May 12, 2016 online
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...
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Markets and Trade Policy and Governance Resilience Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade
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Interactive Voice Response: Its Growing Role in Agricultural Extension Services

Apr 14, 2016 online
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...
Agricultural Productivity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education and Extension Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth
Photo credit: USAID
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Scaling Up Input Technology and Input Access: Clues from Zambia

Mar 24, 2016 City Club of Washington, Washington Room 555 13th St NW Washington, DC, District of Columbia, 20004, United States
"Scaling Up of Drought-Tolerant Maize in Zambia" explored two new studies on Zambia that review different aspects of the agricultural input supply market evolution. This event was the first of...
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Upcoming Events

Integrating Gender into Global Livestock System Development

Jul 22, 2022 GAINESVILLE, Florida, United States online

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development

Jul 14, 2022 United States online

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