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Two women completing the Feed the Future Integrated Household Survey in Bangladesh.

Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index: The Experience of USAID Bangladesh

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.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment

Jun 28, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Livestock Vendor in Kenya.

Women’s Decision-Making Power in Agriculture: Through the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Lens

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.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment

Katie Cheney

Jun 27, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Gender
Man and woman crouch in front of greenhouse with tomatoes.

Promoting Women’s Decision-Making Power in Agriculture

The Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program developed a series of resources on promoting women’s decision-making power in USAID agriculture systems programming.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment

Katie Cheney

Jun 23, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Kenyan and U.S.-based researchers discuss food safety at a small poultry farm outside of Nairobi.

Stakeholder-Centered Risk Ranking Workshop Builds Consensus and Sets Priorities for Food Safety Research in Kenyan Poultry

Stakeholder input shapes food safety research for Kenya’s smallholder poultry farms.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Jun 22, 2022
Food Safety Gender Nutrition
Seated, Bora, a male caregiver from Kuruwitu village, received nutrition education on the multiple nutrients in fish from a nutrition educator.

Individualized Nutrition Education and Group Cooking Demonstrations Increase Knowledge on Fish Consumption Among Caregivers

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.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

Jun 20, 2022
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Youth
A woman cutting up fish to make a meal, using safe and clean practices.

Safe Fish for Children and Expecting Mothers

Learn about how the Nourishing Nations activity is working toward helping women and youth have safe, nutritious fish to add to their diets.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

Jun 17, 2022
Food Safety Gender Nutrition Youth
Presentation during a food safety workshop in Senegal.

Workshops Raise Food Safety Awareness among Dairy Producers in Senegal

Stakeholder dialogue and food safety fundamentals were top priorities in recent dairy food safety workshops in Senegal.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Jun 16, 2022
Education and Extension Food Safety Gender Nutrition Youth
Woman in personal protective equipment holding up two chocolate bars made by the Dulce Esperanza group.

Incarcerated Women’s Chocolate Business in Peru Takes Steps toward Becoming a Cooperative

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.

NCBA CLUSA

Jun 16, 2022
Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Gender Resilience
Two people working in a kitchen.

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

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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...
Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Nutrition Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience
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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
Kids on Swing
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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
Cooperative member in her field
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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
Photo Credit: Joan Lewa
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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

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Project-level Experiences in Addressing Gender-based Violence in Agriculture

Aug 18, 2022 United States online

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