Strengthening the ability of local and national governments to understand complex challenges, collaborate, and use data for decision making leads to policies that are good for individuals and communities.
Policy and Governance
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...
India’s population will soon be larger than China’s, economic growth is averaging 7 to 8 percent, and cities are expanding rapidly. Growing food, feed, and fiber needs are increasing pressure on India’s agriculture. With limited land and falling water tables, can India produce enough food for her...
How best to secure land tenure for pastoralists is an ongoing challenge for governments, practitioners, lawyers, academics, and communities themselves. As a result, pastoral lands continue to be encroached, fragmented, excised, and lost whilst all important mobility of people and livestock is...
Mar 15, 2019
The FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has released its report on The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture .
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...
Mar 04, 2019
Guatemala Feed the Future Zone of Influence Interim Assessment Report October 2017. See sidebar for PDF of the report.
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.
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.
Mar 15, 2019
The FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has released its report on The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture .
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
Guatemala Feed the Future Zone of Influence Interim Assessment Report October 2017. See sidebar for PDF of the report.
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 21, 2019
The Myanmar Government and the FAO recently signed a multi-year agreement that will create conditions to help improve nutrition and food security in the southeast Asian country while safeguarding and sustainably managing the use of natural resources.
Feb 13, 2019
Since 2000 Malawi has achieved four of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) including those on reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. The country started the MDGs with a particularly low base compared to other countries, making achievement of these...
Feb 12, 2019
The USAID Center for Resilience commissioned the Overseas Development Institute , in conjunction with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) , to conduct research on resilience and poverty escapes in Niger and six other countries of interest to better understand the sources of resilience that...
Feb 11, 2019
Cambodia experienced rapid and sustained economic growth averaging nearly eight percent per year between 1994 and 2015 , ranking sixth in the world for growth and attaining middle income status in 2015. This is matched by impressive poverty reduction, which fell from 52 percent in 2004 to 13.5...
Feb 07, 2019
At the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum this January, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the state of the world as one “in which global challenges are more and more integrated, and the responses are more and more fragmented, and if this is not reversed, it’s a recipe for...
Feb 01, 2019
What are the key elements to ensuring access to extension services? We found that the number of extension agents, staff professionalization and bureaucratic autonomy matter surprisingly little in shaping rural households’ access.
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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 28, 2019
Collaboration and knowledge sharing from key cooperative players is creating change in Rwanda through the Cooperative Learning Platform.
Jan 24, 2019
This post originally appeared on mSTAR's blog. The advent of digital farmer profiles might lead to a new era in agriculture. Mobile technology, remote sensors, blockchain and big data are beginning to transform the lives of smallholder farmers, changing how farmers grow food, access credit, apply...
Jan 23, 2019
Farmers make up 70 percent of the world's extreme poor, but smart use of data can change this status quo. Data can be used to build digital farmer profiles and lead to the creation of targeted products like precise irrigation systems, better credit scoring systems and location-based weather updates...
Jan 18, 2019
This brief synthesizes publicly available and regularly updated data on Ethiopia related to four key trade determinants that are actionable at the national level.
Jan 18, 2019
This brief synthesizes publicly available and regularly updated data on Uganda related to four key trade determinants that are actionable at the national level.
Jan 18, 2019
This brief synthesizes publicly available and regularly updated data on Senegal related to four key trade determinants that are actionable at the national level.
Measuring and reporting on progress in food security policy has been a challenge for Missions and for FTFMS, but BFS (MEL and Policy Divisions) has developed some practical solutions. At this webinar, we will be discussing the importance of policy in contributing to agriculture and food security...
We know that agriculture and food policy is critical in driving agricultural transformation. But what can we do in countries often deemed "fragile" facing complex emergency conditions where institutions are often altogether missing? On June 28, Agrilinks will host a special 30-minute "Ask the...
Agrilinks will host a special 30-minute Q&A with food security policy researchers Suresh Chandra Babu and Duncan Boughton on what recent policy research shows us on the way forward in strengthening the national policy systems. In most developing countries, there is a disconnect between the...
Agriculture and food policy is a critical development tool that can help direct agricultural transformation to best suit country needs and goals. On June 7, Agrilinks will host a special 30-minute Ask the Expert Chat for an online discussion and live audio Q&A on using policy to facilitate or...
Impact evaluations help attribute outcomes to a development intervention, which can be an elusive connection. Feed the Future is excited to showcase findings from its recently completed impact evaluation that assessed the impact of Water Users Associations (WUAs) on water and land productivity,...
This webinar will highlight the tools, approaches, and processes used to engage local partners and promote effective civil society and local engagement for sustainable outcomes. Strengthening Civil Society's Role in Development: A Handbook for Engagement outlines four engagement practices to...
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...
