Tools to anticipate and prepare for market shocks, health crises, political instability and weather extremes gives vulnerable people ways to manage risks and rebound more quickly.
Resilience
Jul 19, 2019
Around the world, ocean dead zones are growing at alarming rates, making entire swaths of underwater habitats uninhabitable by marine life. Most of this is directly tied to agriculture and the way in which it contributes to soil or land degradation.
FAO’s 2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report highlights that global food insecurity and malnutrition, including obesity, persist and remain stubbornly high with approximately 820 million people continuing to suffer from hunger and nearly 2 billion people experiencing...
Jul 15, 2019
The fall armyworm is becoming a household name around the world, but not for good reasons – the pest, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, devours over 300 plant species, including maize, which feeds millions of people .
Jul 11, 2019
More than 50 years ago, CGIAR’s research into high-yielding, disease-resistant rice and wheat launched the Green Revolution, saving more than a billion people from starvation.
More than 600,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar in 2017 and crossed into southeastern Bangladesh, joining 200,000 to 400,000 other forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals. This seminar will include analysis of incomes, employment, food security, and nutrition based on a household survey...
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Jul 09, 2019
As horticulture for development becomes an increasingly critical field globally, these nine webinars off early-career professionals a chance to brush up on both project management skills and horticulture topics related to the contexts of international agricultural development.
Jul 08, 2019
Low yields among smallholders jeopardize incomes and farmers’ ability to provide nutritious food for their families. In Guatemala, where malnutrition and stunting rates are among the highest in the world, low yields and an overreliance on nutrient-deficient maize exacerbates poverty and hunger for...
Jul 02, 2019
Do you have experience implementing agricultural, livelihood s , or WASH projects in preparedness, emergency and/or recovery? If so, USAID/FFP-funded technical assistance and learning awards SCALE and PRO-WASH would like to hear from you! Take 20 minutes and add your voice! Click the SURVEY LINK to...
Jul 02, 2019
This post was originally published on the CCAFS blog . New project aims to ensure that key actors in the livestock sector increase climate change adaptation and mitigation in farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. In Sub-Saharan Africa, livestock is crucial for the...
Jun 28, 2019
This post originally appeared on Marketlinks . USAID’s Market Systems Framework recognizes the enabling environment — including the formal rules, informal norms, and relationships — as a critical factor influencing market actors’ incentives to invest in new technologies, practices, and services...
Jul 19, 2019
Around the world, ocean dead zones are growing at alarming rates, making entire swaths of underwater habitats uninhabitable by marine life. Most of this is directly tied to agriculture and the way in which it contributes to soil or land degradation.
Jul 15, 2019
The fall armyworm is becoming a household name around the world, but not for good reasons – the pest, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, devours over 300 plant species, including maize, which feeds millions of people .
Jul 11, 2019
More than 50 years ago, CGIAR’s research into high-yielding, disease-resistant rice and wheat launched the Green Revolution, saving more than a billion people from starvation.
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Jul 09, 2019
As horticulture for development becomes an increasingly critical field globally, these nine webinars off early-career professionals a chance to brush up on both project management skills and horticulture topics related to the contexts of international agricultural development.
Jul 08, 2019
Low yields among smallholders jeopardize incomes and farmers’ ability to provide nutritious food for their families. In Guatemala, where malnutrition and stunting rates are among the highest in the world, low yields and an overreliance on nutrient-deficient maize exacerbates poverty and hunger for...
Jul 02, 2019
Do you have experience implementing agricultural, livelihood s , or WASH projects in preparedness, emergency and/or recovery? If so, USAID/FFP-funded technical assistance and learning awards SCALE and PRO-WASH would like to hear from you! Take 20 minutes and add your voice! Click the SURVEY LINK to...
Jul 02, 2019
This post was originally published on the CCAFS blog . New project aims to ensure that key actors in the livestock sector increase climate change adaptation and mitigation in farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. In Sub-Saharan Africa, livestock is crucial for the...
Jun 28, 2019
This post originally appeared on Marketlinks . USAID’s Market Systems Framework recognizes the enabling environment — including the formal rules, informal norms, and relationships — as a critical factor influencing market actors’ incentives to invest in new technologies, practices, and services...
Jun 28, 2019
This is the third blog of our series on building private sector resilience. The previous blog, The Role of Acceleration Services in Pay for Results Programs , focuses on three key areas to businesses that contribute to achievement of commercial and development results – trust, agility, and...
Jun 25, 2019
Through engaging datasets on agricultural water use and institutional governance performance at the national level, the Water Governance Scorecard looks at water from the agriculture sector and investment side with implications for larger resilience discussions.
Jun 25, 2019
Viewing water within the domain of agriculture, the Water Governance Scorecard engages publicly available datasets on Feed the Future focus countries’ water use and water system governance practices as they relate to agricultural production and investment.
Jun 20, 2019
This post was written by Themba Nduna is a nutrition advisor in USAID/Zimbabwe’s office of Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience. This post was originally published on Medium . In 2014, I was on a site visit to one of our food security activities and shared with beneficiaries my experiences...
Jun 18, 2019
USAID's Value Chains for Rural Development project in Myanmar is helping smallholder farmers begin to think and plan ahead to mitigate risks that could impact their incomes. As a result, producers are becoming more proactive and confident negotiating pre-sales agreements and contracts.
Jun 12, 2019
Preliminary qualitative and quantitative field findings from Zimbabwe suggest that psychological safety within a group is a critical driver of group success and resilience.
Jun 11, 2019
This story was written by Patrick Bell, Deputy Regional Director for Quality and Growth, Latin America and the Caribbean for Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health. Honduras is the world’s fifth largest producer of coffee in volume. Despite their claim on the global market, many Honduran...
Jun 04, 2019
You can’t see or smell them, but aflatoxins are one of the world’s most carcinogenic substances. They are produced by a group of molds known as the Aspergillus fungi that often contaminate grains, such as maize.
Jun 03, 2019
This is an amended re-issue of the RFP released on 27 March 2019. It has been revised to extend the deadline to 31 July 2019 and to permit ALL implementing partners to apply for this opportunity, regardless of the funder. The SCALE Award is now collecting research proposals from implementing...
Jun 03, 2019
The Legume Systems Innovation Lab is seeking concept notes to support Area of Inquiry 3: Analysis of sociocultural and/or economic motivators or barriers to legume utilization at various stages and scales within production and market systems. The deadline for the submission of concept notes is July...
Jun 03, 2019
In 2018, we formed an ad hoc forecast group to provide annual outlooks for Blue Nile River flow at the beginning of each East Africa summertime rainy season. The motivation for this effort is the impending completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
May 31, 2019
Life in rural Timor-Leste has few economic opportunities for families. USAID's Avansa Agrikultura Project is working to spur economic growth by supporting the development of ag-input stores, vegetable collection agencies, and small-scale food processors.
The recording for this webinar is now available! This webinar will provide a demonstration on how to use the tools on the Global Agricultural and Disaster Assessment System (GADAS) to do desktop analysis, and a case study on how USDA/FAS is using GADAS to build host country capacity with the...
USAID and the Renovation & Rehabilitation Collective Action Network of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge (SCC) are hosted this webinar on Renovation & Rehabilitation (R&R) for Resilient Coffee Farms on April 24, 2019. Aging or diseased coffee trees are a major constraint to productivity...
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...
How can vulnerable households sustain an escape from poverty, weathering the ongoing and multiple shocks and stresses that they will face over their lifetimes? Poor and near-poor households and communities live in increasingly complex risk environments and are subject to a range of shocks and...
In theory, Sub-Saharan Africa could feed a large part of the world. Yet the region struggles to achieve its full agricultural potential, let alone its potential in agricultural value addition and processed foods. In this webinar, presenters from the USAID Investment Support Program and Dalberg will...
In the wake of fall armyworm's devastating effects on African agriculture, farmers are turning to pesticides as a means to combat the pest. Unfortunately, pesticides are not always well targeted or properly handled. This webinar will focus on the use of pesticides in Africa and the challenges for...
USAID’s Bureau for Food Security is working in partnership with experts from around the world to develop a set of tools to assist countries in addressing the Fall Armyworm. This Agrilinks webinar will walk you through the latest tools available, from country-specific decision guides to animated...
Fall Armyworm is here to stay. So, what can be done to address this threat to food security and farmer incomes? A key to effective management of FAW is farmer access to the full range of technologies used to control the pest. This webinar will walk through innovative tools available in Africa and...
Unsafe food threatens public health and undermines food security at local, regional and global levels. The benefits of extensive development activities targeting food insecurity are drained away when food products are contaminated. Microbial and chemical contaminants are of particular concern, as...
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,...
Women play a unique role guaranteeing household food security and building resilience to shocks and stresses. While discussions at the intersection of gender equity/social inclusion and resilience often focus on the vulnerabilities of women, girls, and disadvantaged persons during disasters, these...
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.
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.
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Resilience at USAID 2016 Progress Report
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