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
Sep 21, 2018
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation has launched a new solicitation on behalf of USAID's Bureau for Food Security for new private sector partnerships. Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation and USAID seek to partner with private sector businesses to empower farmers with the tools and...
Improving Nutrition through Private Sector Engagement across Food Systems The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), an advisory committee to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will convene a public meeting on October 16, 2018 to explore opportunities...
Sep 20, 2018
Learn about all of SIL's recent advancements in the September Newsletter! Access the newsletter here. SIL's September 2018 Newsletter features the following articles: University of Illinois Leading the Way in Global Food Security - This piece was co-authored by Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis and...
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Sep 19, 2018
New research shows that promoting low-cost but advanced farming methods through agricultural extension can significantly increase food security and resilience, especially when the higher cost of improved inputs keeps them out of reach.
Sep 18, 2018
Mozambique has about 1,000 public extension workers for the entire country's 3.8 million farming households. That means every extension worker has about 3,800 households to support. Aside from this impossible ratio, public extension workers lack equipment, education and incentives to properly...
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Sep 18, 2018
The draft Phase 2 Feed the Future Learning Agenda is currently open for public comment. Please review the overview document and provide your feedback through this survey form . The survey will close on Friday, September 28th 11:59 PM EDT. This process will be used to gather your input on the...
USAID’s Bureau for Food Security is hosting a suite of five webinars designed to increase awareness of Agency tools and strategies for catalyzing finance in the agriculture sector. The first webinar will be hosted on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 10am EST, and the remaining webinars will be...
Sep 12, 2018
Imagine that your job is to train 5,000 rural farmers on improved techniques across an area the size of Rhode Island. But you don’t have an office or a place to meet with farmers. You also don’t have any transportation to get to them. Oh, and you don’t have a cell phone or other way to communicate...
Sep 06, 2018
The Philippines has experienced a significant reductio n of poverty in the past 25 years. Poverty dropped from 27 percent in 1991 to eight percent in 2015 according to the international $1.90 a day poverty line. However, despite these improvements (driven in part by good economic performance and...
Sep 05, 2018
Diseases, insects, weeds and wildlife are constantly attacking agricultural crops across the developing world where the vast majority of people are dependent on farming for their livelihoods. Pests have the easiest time decimating pure monocultures of crops where they can spread from plant to plant...
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Resilience at USAID 2016 Progress Report
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