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
For mothers who want to raise healthy children, the issue of nutrition is paramount. Yet many remain unaware of which foods promote nutritional benefits. Not all foods are created equal.
Nov 08, 2019
For mothers who want to raise healthy children, the issue of nutrition is paramount. Yet many remain unaware of which foods promote nutritional benefits. Not all foods are created equal. In communities where subsistence farmers raise much of what they eat, how much emphasis should be placed on...
Nov 07, 2019
The rapidly growing economy of Bangladesh has fueled demand for labor in non-agricultural sectors, resulting in a scarcity of rural agricultural workers. This has driven wages up and is affecting farm productivity and profitability. Although women have always played a critical role in the...
Nov 06, 2019
The community in Malawi explored the use of a community grain bank to fight poverty and food loss.
Nov 01, 2019
Over the course of November, we will highlight some of the roles the livestock sector plays in transforming livelihoods.
Oct 28, 2019
Lutheran World Relief is partnering with The Starbucks Foundation in supporting women-led community health and hygiene programs in rural coffee-producing communities in Indonesia and Colombia. The initiatives in Indonesia’s North Sumatra region and in Tolima, Colombia will directly reach more than...
Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) How can information be harnessed to improve rural service delivery and governance? The articles in the new special issue of the journal World Development on “Information, Governance, and Rural Service...
Co-Organized by IFPRI, The Nature Conservancy, PATH, and Duke University From climate change to malnutrition, poverty to biodiversity loss, air pollution to humanitarian crises—the problems facing our world today are deeply interconnected. Holistic initiatives to address these challenges, notably...
Co-Organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States, IFPRI, World Bank Group, and World Resources Institute Our agricultural system faces serious social and ecological challenges, and climate change and resource scarcity require us to reassess current production...
Co-Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets and IFPRI How can agriculture and natural resource management advance gender equality? Asking this question rather than only its inverse — what does gender analysis bring to agriculture and natural resource management...
Nov 08, 2019
For mothers who want to raise healthy children, the issue of nutrition is paramount. Yet many remain unaware of which foods promote nutritional benefits. Not all foods are created equal. In communities where subsistence farmers raise much of what they eat, how much emphasis should be placed on...
Nov 07, 2019
The rapidly growing economy of Bangladesh has fueled demand for labor in non-agricultural sectors, resulting in a scarcity of rural agricultural workers. This has driven wages up and is affecting farm productivity and profitability. Although women have always played a critical role in the...
Nov 06, 2019
The community in Malawi explored the use of a community grain bank to fight poverty and food loss.
Nov 01, 2019
Over the course of November, we will highlight some of the roles the livestock sector plays in transforming livelihoods.
Oct 28, 2019
Lutheran World Relief is partnering with The Starbucks Foundation in supporting women-led community health and hygiene programs in rural coffee-producing communities in Indonesia and Colombia. The initiatives in Indonesia’s North Sumatra region and in Tolima, Colombia will directly reach more than...
Oct 16, 2019
This month marks the end of the USAID-funded Learning Community initiative, and with it, we’ve produced the Key Lessons from Private Sector Engagement . Building from four individual case studies, the document draws challenges and provides key factors for successful NGO/Company Collaboration. “The...
Oct 16, 2019
Eggplant, known as brinjal in Bangladesh, is a high-value crop that is widely grown and consumed throughout the country. Brinjal is highly susceptible to the fruit and shoot borer (FSB) pest. Read about what we did to address this insidious pest.
Oct 15, 2019
Helping Cocoa Farmers to Achieve A Living Income and Adapt to Climate Change follows the popular ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s and their collaboration with Fairtrade International known as the Producer Development Initiative (PDI). PDI is a program in line with Ben & Jerry’s mission to...
Oct 14, 2019
Energy can unlock agriculture’s potential, yet smallholder farmers are least likely to have access to modern energy service. Factor[e] principals Morgan DeFoort and Seth Silverman explore the opportunity.
Oct 10, 2019
In the face of climate change and volatile prices, coffee cooperatives in South America are creating a more resilient future by investing in young people.
Oct 08, 2019
The cocoa industry has taken bold steps to preventing deforestation in the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), a public private collaboration between 33 cocoa and chocolate companies (85% of the industry), the governments of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, and led by the World Cocoa Foundation and the...
Oct 07, 2019
This post was written by Charity Hanif, Chief of Party - Feed the Future Resilient Agricultural markets Activity (RAMA) - Nacala Corridor, Winrock International Traditionally, small farmers in Mozambique prepare their ground with a short-handled hoe and plant by hand, a labor-intensive method that...
Oct 02, 2019
Small and medium-scale farmers in Guinea face a common problem that threatens food security, constrains agricultural production and limits incomes. And young entrepreneurs-in-training are helping solve it with motorbikes.
Sep 27, 2019
Beverage company AB InBev and its Uganda subsidiary Nile Breweries has explored ways to increase the resilience of their small-scale grain farmers to the effects of climate change. Their process has been documented by the Sustainable Food Lab in the case study Improving Grain Sector Climate-Smart...
Sep 23, 2019
Looking to ensure that coffee farmers continue to invest in coffee in ways that enable them to grow production and quality in the face of climate change, Olam , a global agribusiness and one of the leading green coffee origin exporters, teamed up with the International Institute of Tropical...
Sep 19, 2019
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience at UC Davis invites researchers at U.S. universities to submit proposals for four-year research projects that develop or testing innovative ways to promote food security and resilience worldwide.
Sep 19, 2019
The USAID Feed the Future Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience is happy to share the launch of a new website aimed to provide coffee companies with the resources they need to combat climate change. The Climate Smart Coffee website, launched in early May, was created to increase private...
Sep 17, 2019
In collaboration with the USAID Feed the Future Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience—a consortium comprised of climate scientists from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); and the...
Sep 05, 2019
Natural calamities and disasters of various of varying magnitudes impact our lives. From April 26 to May 5, the cyclone Fa ni hit eastern Indian states, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, with winds as high as 215 km/h (three minutes sustained) and 250 km/h (one minute sustained). This caused severe...
Aug 27, 2019
After Afghanistan, Nepal, and Pakistan, the Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System extends its coverage to Bangladesh.
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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