Policies and practices that support inclusive market systems, agricultural production, services and trade are fundamental to economic development and poverty reduction.
Markets and Trade
Mar 20, 2019
Unsafe food undermines food and nutritional security, human development, the broader food economy and international trade. You cannot have food security without food safety.
Food and water security are deeply entwined. 70 percent of global water use is for agriculture while more than 25 percent of the global population lives in areas facing severe water scarcity and more than 820 million people face chronic food deprivation. As the global population continues to rise...
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Mar 19, 2019
Trusting in the power of local talent and ownership, the Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay project has engaged, empowered and strengthened digital SMEs in Senegal.
Mar 18, 2019
Sometimes, market systems inhibit productivity growth and depress livelihoods. Sometimes, there is too much market access for too many kinds of business, so too little is done to tackle problems of stagnant productivity and declining incomes for poor producers.
Mar 14, 2019
Research and project evaluations frequently cite access to greater quantities and higher quality of feed as limiting factors to livestock production levels worldwide. Pasture grazing has been the traditional approach to livestock rearing, but land use has begun to shift.
Mar 13, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access has just launched a new project in partnership with the Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) to improve the quality of agricultural index insurance available to the nation’s small-scale farmers.
Mar 07, 2019
In Senegal, a community-based approach to zoonotic diseases links the health and livestock sectors.
Nourishing the world’s population in an era of increasing strain on planetary resources and boundaries requires a more resilient global food system. Yet how do we understand resilience in global food systems? What is the capacity of our global food systems to respond and adapt to shocks and stress...
Mar 07, 2019
Since the turn of the 20 th century, Vietnam has undergone a remarkable, major change. It has transitioned from a divided post-war region that was isolated from the rest of the world into one that is globally integrated. The nation is becoming industrialized and has growing exports to show for it...
This third Global Nutrition Symposium will bring together ministers and other key policy-makers, researchers, public and private sector extensionists, producer organizations, as well as university administrators to discuss the global relevance of research-extension linkages for human nutrition and...
Mar 20, 2019
Unsafe food undermines food and nutritional security, human development, the broader food economy and international trade. You cannot have food security without food safety.
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Mar 19, 2019
Trusting in the power of local talent and ownership, the Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay project has engaged, empowered and strengthened digital SMEs in Senegal.
Mar 18, 2019
Sometimes, market systems inhibit productivity growth and depress livelihoods. Sometimes, there is too much market access for too many kinds of business, so too little is done to tackle problems of stagnant productivity and declining incomes for poor producers.
Mar 14, 2019
Research and project evaluations frequently cite access to greater quantities and higher quality of feed as limiting factors to livestock production levels worldwide. Pasture grazing has been the traditional approach to livestock rearing, but land use has begun to shift.
Mar 13, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access has just launched a new project in partnership with the Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) to improve the quality of agricultural index insurance available to the nation’s small-scale farmers.
Mar 07, 2019
In Senegal, a community-based approach to zoonotic diseases links the health and livestock sectors.
Mar 07, 2019
Since the turn of the 20 th century, Vietnam has undergone a remarkable, major change. It has transitioned from a divided post-war region that was isolated from the rest of the world into one that is globally integrated. The nation is becoming industrialized and has growing exports to show for it...
Mar 04, 2019
On-farm, off-farm, non-farm… What’s in a name? Common alternative livelihoods terms often appear straightforward on paper but can be rather ambiguous in practice.
Mar 04, 2019
Guatemala Feed the Future Zone of Influence Interim Assessment Report October 2017. See sidebar for PDF of the report.
Mar 01, 2019
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation helps women succeed as entrepreneurs around the globe by providing them with support services to commercialize agricultural technologies and grow their businesses. Six months ago, two of our clients won the Feed the Future Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs (...
Feb 27, 2019
This 2018 Mali Value Chain Commercial, Legal, and Institutional Reform (VcCLIR) assessment revisits selected recommendations from a 2011 VcCLIR consisting of a qualitative analysis of the enabling environment focused on the livestock, rice, millet, and sorghum value chains.
Feb 27, 2019
A summary of our findings on agri-SME lending from a recent Dalberg-Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) study of 28 lenders, including 11 social lenders with global portfolios and 17 domestic lenders from East Africa.
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Feb 26, 2019
This report responds to a request by USAID/Nepal that USDA prepare an assessment of the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues impacting agricultural trade in Nepal and provide a roadmap toward developing a sound, modern SPS system.
Feb 25, 2019
The ability of the world’s poorest farmers and pastoralists to adapt to a changing climate will affect the food security of millions across the globe.
Feb 14, 2019
The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) is an annual report provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Corteva Agriscience, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont. The GFSI’s report provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of food security, including the food safety index,...
Feb 11, 2019
Each year, more than 550 youth development experts and innovators from 60+ countries convene at the Global Youth Economic Opportunities (GYEO) Summit to deepen their knowledge and skills, expand their professional networks, and gain new insights on the social and economic trends impacting young...
Feb 06, 2019
As part of a three-day Agriculture Finance Training at the Washington Learning Center, USAID — through the Investment Support Program — organized a panel of investors to speak about providing finance in the agricultural space. In particular, the panel focused on identifying the opportunities and...
Feb 05, 2019
In order to manage risk, successful farming increasingly takes place alongside diversification of livelihoods. As such, policy and program linkages within and between agriculture and other sectors are needed to ensure sustained escapes from poverty.
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Jan 31, 2019
The Intra-African Agriculture Trade Improvement Scorecards capture relative performance on a range of elements that underpin an effective trading system for agriculture, providing data and analysis actionable at both at the regional and country levels.
Jan 25, 2019
Cracking the Nut 2019 is searching far and wide to identify the latest approaches to improving food security that employ systems thinking while balancing public concerns for food security with private, market-based solutions. Do you—or someone you know—have insight related to increasing rural...
How can we understand the AgResults prize competition model as a driver for private sector-led inclusive market systems development? This webinar will look at how the model can strengthen market systems to sustainably improve the lives of smallholder farmers. It will reflect on AgResults’ efforts...
The USAID Bureau for Food Security's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Division invites you to the fourth installment in our Feed the Future MEL Webinar Series . New Indicators: Sales, finance, and investment indicators In October 2017, a revised set of Feed the Future indicators was...
Agriculture is an inherently risky activity. This risk exposure can make and keep farmers poor. Agricultural index insurance can help farmers avoid costly coping mechanisms and unlock opportunities for increased investment and greater resilience, but such positive development impacts largely depend...
Improving staple crop production is widely viewed as crucial for increasing food security and reducing poverty in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). However, smallholder households in SSA who cultivate maize and other grains face two major post‐harvest challenges. First, pests cause post‐harvest loss of up...
Despite the potential for intra-regional trade of grains to improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa, in practice, these commercial transactions have been fraught with logistics challenges and non-tariff barriers. USAID's Trade and Investment Hubs are working to overcome these issues in...
Investing in resilience and a more proactive response to avert humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa could reduce the cost to international donors by 30 percent, while also protecting billions of dollars of income and assets for households and communities impacted by droughts.
Join us in person, or online, for this event to learn more about the keys to commercializing agricultural research.
USAID LandLinks is working to support private sector partners to de-risk investments and secure legitimate land rights in order to improve livelihoods and other outcomes for communities affected by investments. Join us, along with Agrilinks, Microlinks , and a panel of experts, for an interactive...
As smallholder-based agricultural systems struggle to adapt to rapid changes in weather and other factors, this discussion will present lessons and approaches on aligning private sector investment with the research and donor community.
