Tools and Training

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Trainings

Learn about important topics in agricultural development through our collection of trainings.

An Introduction to Resilience at USAID and Beyond
Resilience 101

This self-paced, 50 minute course introduces the basics of resilience as an analytic, programmatic, and organizing concept and discusses USAID's resilience work to date.
Resilient Agriculture
Resilient Agriculture

Feed the Future employs a climate-smart approach that draws on state-of-the-art science and policy. 
Supporting the Global Food Security Strategy through Stengthened SPS Systems
SPS Plant Health Distance Learning Modules

These courses provide an overview of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) topics related to plant health and international trade of agricultural goods.
Online Resilience Training
Resilience Training: Measurement, Livelihood Diversification and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

Hour-long modules contain key concepts, priorities and considerations for resilience programming.  It builds upon An Introduction to Resilience at USAID and Beyond.

Tools

Access resources, toolkits, frameworks, and other how-to guidance to improve your work.

USAID Recommends

USAID staff curate these tools for food security and development professionals.
  • men on small boat with wetsuits hold a fish trap
    How to Make a Sustainable Fish Trap

    In this video, learn how to build and use a sustainable fish trap.

  • Woman in maize field looking at a small fall armyworm.
    Fall Armyworm Mitigation: Learning Modules for Trainers of Smallholder Farmers in Africa

    The "Fall Armyworm Mitigation: Learning Modules for Trainers of Smallholder Farmers in Africa" are designed to facilitate the training of...

  • Men throw nets.
    Climate Risk Management Toolkit

    This toolkit is to provides support for USAID’s climate risk management process. Whether you are designing an agriculture project, writing...

  • Feed the Future Tools to Combat Fall Armyworm in Africa

    Fall Armyworm (FAW) is an invasive and damaging pest endemic to the Americas that is spreading across Africa, particularly targeting maize...

  • Feed the Future Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Toolbox

    Tools include the Feed the Future Indicator Handbook, MEL Webinar Series, ZOI Survey Methods guidance, FTFMS guidance, and more!

  • Javier Rivera tomato farming in Gracias, Honduras. Photo by Fintrac Inc.
    Empowering Youth in Agriculture and Food Systems

    Feed the Future and Agency-wide resources to empower youth in agricultural development. Resources help development practitioners identify...

Community Contributions

Find ready-to-use tools contributed by Agrilinks members.
  • Leonida Shitambasi shows off her small holder farm in Homa Bay County, Kisumu, Kenya. Shitambasi and her husband grow leafy greens, vegetables and other food staples at their farm.
    Feed the Future Indicator Handbook

    The updated Feed the Future Indicator Handbook presents the set of performance management indicators for phase three of the U.S. government...

  • A goatkeeper tends to her herd in Odisha, India.
    Who Is Working on What, and Where? Explore This Map of Livestock Projects

    The interactive map of livestock projects aims to support better coordination of investments and activities.

  • Two women sitting across from each other in a medical office.
    Gender Equality and Social Inclusion: Institutional Learning

    Ensuring that people of all genders, races, abilities and religions have equal opportunities to engage is a fundamental aspect of...

  • Man and woman crouch in front of greenhouse with tomatoes.
    Promoting Women’s Decision-Making Power in Agriculture

    The Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program developed a series of resources on promoting women’s decision-making power in USAID agriculture...

  • A group of people, cooperative members in Rwanda, sort through a pile of red-colored, high-iron, fortified beans. (Photo Credit: Herve Irankunda/USAID Feed the Future)
    Demystifying A Food Systems Approach: Tools to Turn Theory to Action

    USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition curated a focused set of tools to support USAID Missions and partners in putting a food systems approach...

  • Participants engage in a lively exchange of ideas and viewpoints during the breakout sessions.
    RFS Policy Reporting

    This page provides USAID Missions and Implementing Partners with the background and tools necessary to set targets and report on policy...

Webinar Recordings

Learn from the experts. Browse our selection of past Agrilinks webinar recordings. Visit our events page for more details and resources.

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Experts discuss how to solve critical food security issues by curbing food loss and waste. 

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