Policies and practices that support inclusive market systems, agricultural production, services and trade are fundamental to economic development and poverty reduction.
Madan Dey, an agricultural economist, performs experiments and analyses to better understand consumer behavior and aims to improve the livelihood of farmers around the world.
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.
Climate threats to global food security and projections of worsening hunger tend to grab headlines, but climate threats to food safety are just as serious.
The Food Safety-First (FS-First) Budget Tool can be combined with capacity-strengthening activities with farmer organizations, cooperatives and enterprises for international development practitioners.
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.
Does your USAID-funded project use digital technology or strengthen inclusive digital ecosystems in the agriculture/food security sector? We want to recognize you!
Identifying approaches and making recommendations that will diversify the range of publicly bred crop varieties available to smallholder farmers and increase varietal turnover through commercial channels.
Temperature control and food hygiene are vital for keeping food safe as it moves through the food system. Disruption of the cold chain and poor hygiene practices during food handling...
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...
Some of the most nutritious foods are also some of the most perishable—fruits, vegetables, and animal-sourced foods. They all require temperature control or a “cold chain” to stay fresh and...
Join Marketlinks and Agrilinks on August 6th to explore gender and youth-specific constraints and opportunities in agriculture and supporting market systems.
From contexts of emergencies to times of peace, markets are pivotal in helping farmers access seed. In this webinar, panelists will present lessons from two reviews of market-led emergency seed...
Agricultural technology scaling is a complex, long-term systems change phenomenon that requires many years and many partners to achieve success. One of the most difficult components of large scale scaling...
Market systems programming seeks to make markets more competitive, inclusive, and resilient. Recent advances in concepts for how to define and assess market systems resilience push the boundaries of traditional...
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