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
Jan 21, 2020
Through demonstration plots and model family farms, we support smallholder farmers in adopting the on-farm practice of intercropping their maize fields with nitrogen-fixing legumes along with minimum tillage.
Jan 17, 2020
More than 80 percent of the world’s coffee is produced by smallholders. Despite their integral role, these farmers face significant challenges that threaten their livelihoods and the long-term viability of the global coffee supply chain.
Jan 17, 2020
The increasing demand for land and natural resources brings diverse users into competition. There is a clear need to secure legitimate rights and develop effective process to resolve disputes without destructive conflicts.
Join us to discuss the details of HEARTH, USAID's new partnership opportunity for investing in the conservation of threatened ecosystems and the prosperity of communities that depend on them.
Jan 15, 2020
Constraints in water availability has required groups to work towards improving irrigation efficiency so that the benefits of existing water resources can be stretched farther to achieve greater and more effective agricultural production.
Jan 14, 2020
The degree of reliance on groundwater coupled with challenges of water scarcity, climate vulnerability, and poverty, amplifies the need to manage this resource optimally.
Increases in population and wealth are leading to ever-growing demands for food, while increasing urbanization is leading to proportionally fewer people producing food. The next few decades will require sound policy and careful management of resources in order to simultaneously provide 50 percent...
Join Marketlinks, Agrilinks, and the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project on Thursday, February 6 for a webinar examining the enabling environment for agricultural market systems in fragile contexts.
Jan 08, 2020
Proponents of agroecology and food justice advocates have called for a transition to sustainable farming practices that support biodiversity and soil health as well as structural changes that will improve access to land and resources for historically marginalized people.
Join IDEAL , in-person or online, to hear about new resilience research from two Nepal Development Food Security Activities (DFSAs): Promoting Agriculture, Health, and Alternative Livelihoods (PAHAL) and Sustainable Action for Resilience and Food Security (Sabal). Two new resilience studies,...
Jan 21, 2020
Through demonstration plots and model family farms, we support smallholder farmers in adopting the on-farm practice of intercropping their maize fields with nitrogen-fixing legumes along with minimum tillage.
Jan 17, 2020
More than 80 percent of the world’s coffee is produced by smallholders. Despite their integral role, these farmers face significant challenges that threaten their livelihoods and the long-term viability of the global coffee supply chain.
Jan 17, 2020
The increasing demand for land and natural resources brings diverse users into competition. There is a clear need to secure legitimate rights and develop effective process to resolve disputes without destructive conflicts.
Jan 15, 2020
Constraints in water availability has required groups to work towards improving irrigation efficiency so that the benefits of existing water resources can be stretched farther to achieve greater and more effective agricultural production.
Jan 14, 2020
The degree of reliance on groundwater coupled with challenges of water scarcity, climate vulnerability, and poverty, amplifies the need to manage this resource optimally.
Jan 08, 2020
Proponents of agroecology and food justice advocates have called for a transition to sustainable farming practices that support biodiversity and soil health as well as structural changes that will improve access to land and resources for historically marginalized people.
Jan 07, 2020
In 2016, a collaboration between the University of Washington and Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources ( PCRWR ) resulted in the implementation of a cellphone-based irrigation advisory that currently serves 100,000 farmers in the Indus basin.
Jan 06, 2020
While people across the globe have access to more food, energy, and raw material than at any point in human history, nature is declining globally at unprecedented rates, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely.
Jan 03, 2020
Prepared by over 100 scientists from over 52 countries, this is the first-ever comprehensive scientific assessment of the links between land and climate change and is a critical contribution to efforts to tackle the impacts of global warming and protect food security.
Jan 01, 2020
Current projections indicate that the world population will increase from 6.9 billion people today to 9.1 billion in 2050. Changing dietary and consumption patterns and increased land use change are also placing increased pressure on natural assets from which agriculture productivity depends. In...
Dec 30, 2019
Data that provides community-level insights on seasonal variations, agricultural practices, asset ownership, and ability to pay can usher in a new era for smallholder financing.
Dec 23, 2019
Although innovators in Nigeria continue to face serious challenges in terms of scaling, reducing cheap imports and growing exports, the agriculture sector continues to show high potential for future digital expansion.
Dec 19, 2019
NCBA CLUSA’s USAID-funded Resilience and Economic Growth in Sahel-Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER) project in Burkina Faso and Niger is building the capacities of communities and local institutions to absorb, adapt and transform in the face of shocks and stresses.
Dec 16, 2019
The Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation program has partnered with a wide range of agribusinesses in developing countries. Digital technologies have been a major part of these efforts.
Dec 12, 2019
Wefarm wants to use machine learning build a platform to help connect every small-scale farmer around the world to the people and resources they need to be more successful.
Dec 12, 2019
With the availability of quality veterinary services and access to "shared" animals, communities and farmers can assist each other.
Dec 10, 2019
Many insurance providers who offer genuinely useful services are facing the same challenge: smallholders simply aren’t signing up. This problem is often rooted in how providers register customers rather than in the products themselves.
Dec 09, 2019
John Deere remains committed to helping a global customer base swing the pendulum on what they can control through their ongoing journey in precision agriculture.
Dec 06, 2019
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), has been used to build index insurance, a type of insurance that avoids the high costs of verifying losses individually. Drought Watch is a new project that uses machine learning to eventually create a more accurate index.
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Dec 05, 2019
SimPastoralist is a digital app the MRR Innovation Lab is using in northern Kenya to explain index-based livestock insurance while collecting data that can help design insurance that responds better to women’s needs.
Join Marketlinks, Agrilinks, and the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project on Thursday, February 6 for a webinar examining the enabling environment for agricultural market systems in fragile contexts.
Increases in population and wealth are leading to ever-growing demands for food, while increasing urbanization is leading to proportionally fewer people producing food. The next few decades will require sound policy and careful management of resources in order to simultaneously provide 50 percent...
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.
Recommended Resources
Resilience at USAID 2016 Progress Report
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