Dana James

United States Knowledge Management Specialist The Knowledge-Driven Agricultural Development project

I work as a Knowledge Management Specialist on the Feed the Future Knowledge-Driven Agricultural Development project, based in Washington, DC. My background is in environmental resource management and international development, with a focus on international agriculture and water management. 

Latest Submissions

Citrus vendors learned to use simple mobile technology to improve market linkages through voluntary technical assistance from the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Program.
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Connected Farmer Alliance: Helping Poor Farmers with Commercially Sustainable m-Agri Services

May 13, 2015 online
Can mobile technology help deepen relationships with agribusiness and improve access to financial services for smallholder farmers? Several innovative international development programs are testing that premise. The Connected Farmer Alliance...
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Feed the Future Branding 101

Apr 30, 2015 online
Editorial Note: All examples of correct and incorrect project naming and logo use included in the event resources were invented for the purposes of this training. They are fictional examples...
Taking Livestock to Market in Ethiopia
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Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility

Feb 02, 2015 Ronald Reagan Building, Hemisphere B 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC, District of Columbia, 20004, United States
Between 2007 and 2008, world governments made decisions that, in conjunction with extreme weather events, turned an already alarming food supply and demand situation into a global food price crisis...
Green rice fields on Bali island
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Integrating Landscape Management into Climate-Smart Agriculture

Dec 17, 2014 The Willard Office Building, 7th Floor 1455 Pennsylvania Ave. (Entrance on F Street) Washington, DC, 20004, United States
Agricultural production, land use change and forestry generate about one-quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions annually. At the same time, products taken off the land—including food—are among those most sensitive...