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Envisioning a Pathway to Resilience and Economic Opportunity

Learn how the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) is helping young men and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo identify economic opportunities and develop skills and confidence.

Tetra Tech Agriculture and Economic Growth

Feb 05, 2021

Western Guatemala Highlands: Introducing New Models for Sustainable Development in the Coffee Agricultural Value Chain

Strategic projects and partnerships are creating sophisticated markets in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, through the shared value model and modern agriculture.

Ivanna Meneses

Feb 04, 2021

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade Gender Resilience Youth

Data Systems: Multipurpose Solutions for Sustainability

February is Data Systems for Sustainable Growth Month!

Anna Brenes

Feb 01, 2021

Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth

New research from Feed the Future ALL-IN in Kenya

New Research in Kenya Tests Digital Advisories to Promote Resilience in Farming Communities

New research in Kenya is testing whether providing farmers weather and market information via SMS text message promotes climate change adaptation and increases in overall productivity and resilience.

MRR Innovation Lab

Jan 29, 2021

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender Resilience

Fishers at Hakaluki Haor Wetland, Bangladesh

2020 Research Results from the Fish Innovation Lab

Here are some key results and findings from Fish Innovation Lab's Quick Start projects, plus a few other 2020 highlights.

Kristen Dechert

Jan 22, 2021

Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth

Field assistants are taking spectral reflectance measurements on wheat plants at Borlaug Institute for South Asia.

Why Women Aren’t Using Your Ag App

There is still much that needs to be done in efforts to engage female farmers in AgTech to balance any gender digital divides that still exist.

Agrilinks Team

Jan 14, 2021

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender

Photograph of improved ASMC planter developed in Burkina Faso

“Now we can Breathe" — Designing Mechanization to Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers

Agricultural mechanization can increase farm productivity while reducing time, labor, and drudgery. However, achieving sustained use is difficult and women farmers face barriers in adoption.

Timothy Harrigan

Jan 06, 2021

Agricultural Productivity Gender

Webinar: Understanding How and Why People Make Food Choices in LMIC for Promotion of Sustainable Healthy Diets

Jan 14, 2021 online

Understanding how and why people make food choices in LMIC for promotion of sustainable healthy diets.

COVID-19 Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth

Knowledge-Based Food Systems for Economic Development in Asia: The Four Pillars of Growth

The world faces immense challenges in food production and availability. The prime attributes of a food system are its quality, affordability and economic sustainability.

CABI: Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International

Dec 29, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth

Farmers plant Chinese kale in seedling trays

USAID COVID-19 Posts

COVID-19 in Cambodia: Farmer Experiences, Gendered Impacts and Ways Forward

Amid COVID-19, the IPM Innovation Lab is introducing farmers to ecological solutions that will help improve the quantity and quality of their crops.

Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab

Dec 07, 2020

Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Gender

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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

Agrilinks Event

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

Agrilinks Event

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

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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...

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education and Extension Markets and Trade Policy and Governance Climate and Natural Resources Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Opportunities

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Building Linkages in Agricultural Education and Training through Systems Thinking

Feb 17, 2016 Ronald Reagan Building, Oceanic Room 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States

The application of systems thinking to agricultural education and training (AET) is critical to sustainable agricultural development. By understanding complete AET systems and the connections within them, practitioners can account...

Agricultural Productivity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education and Extension Gender Policy and Governance Policy and Governance

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Ask Ag About... The Interactions Between Climate Change and Nutrition

Nov 19, 2015 online

How can cooperation between climate and nutrition communities mitigate the impacts of climate change on nutrition, as well as the impacts of dietary choices on climate change? Join this month’s...

Climate and Natural Resources Nutrition Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth