Topics

Discover content and resources related to agricultural development, food security, and cross-cutting issues. Each topic below contains the most recent Agrilinks posts and events tagged to that subject. Featured collections are curated resources of special interest to the community.

Featured Collections

Sun dried tomatoes - Mustafa Binol, Turkey

Value-Added Foods

This collection showcases the benefits and best practices connected to value-added foods, increasingly important in addressing food security, nutrition and poverty.

Photographer: Neil Palmer / IWMI

Water Governance, Training and Gender in Agriculture

This collection highlights findings from Feed the Future’s impact evaluation assessing the impact of Water Users Associations on water and land productivity, equity, and food security in Tajikistan.
Women purchase rice at a local market managed by women on September 20, 2017, in Pont Gendarme, Senegal. Since 2015, the Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay project, implemented by RTI International, has worked to systematically strengthen production, productivity, and marketing of irrigated and rain-fed rice, maize, and millet in a way that is inclusive, leverages public-private investment, and builds local capacity to support systemic, long-lasting transformation.

Finance for Food Security

In February 2018, Agrilinks highlighted finance for food security. This collection showcases top resources from the Agrilinks archives, plus the new posts and perspectives on ag finance that were shared...

Topics

Agricultural Productivity

  • Access to inputs
  • Genetic gains
  • Production technologies

Climate and Natural Resources

  • Sustainable intensification
  • Resilient soils
  • Water management

COVID-19

  • Best practices on adapting to COVID-19
  • Policy and organizational recommendations
  • Access the RFS COVID-19 Learning Hub

Education and Extension

  • Agricultural education and training (AET)
  • Skills transfer
  • Model programs

Food Safety

  • Food safety systems
  • Mycotoxins
  • Sanitation and hygiene

Gender

  • Women’s empowerment
  • Gender equality 
  • Gender integration

Markets and Trade

  • Market system facilitation
  • Profitable value chains
  • International trade

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

  • Measuring project outcomes
  • Knowledge management
  • Open data

Nutrition

  • First 1,000 days
  • Nutrition interventions
  • Nutrition-sensitive agriculture

Opportunities

  • RFAs/RFPs
  • Job postings
  • Calls for feedback

Policy and Governance

  • Strengthening institutions
  • Mutual accountability
  • Land tenure

Resilience

  • Risk management
  • Recovery from shocks
  • Sustainable livelihoods

Youth

  • Employment and entrepreneurship
  • Youth empowerment
  • Skills and capacity building