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Agricultural Productivity

By 2050, the global population is projected to reach 9.7 billion. Farmers, already challenged to produce more food, need new tools and technologies to keep pace.

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Crowd-Sourced, Citizen Science Can Improve Seed Systems and Climate Change Adaptation

Climate adaptation requires farmers to adjust their crop varieties over time and use the right varieties to minimize climate risk, and variety replacement with new and improved genetics is among...

Agrilinks Team

Feb 03, 2023
Agricultural Productivity
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Livestock Experts Offer Tips to Spur Economic Growth in Lebanon’s Struggling Livestock Sector

In the wake of persisting food insecurity in Lebanon, the Farmer-to-Farmer program recruited three volunteer experts to tackle dairy production opportunities and challenges in the country. Here are their recommendations.

Charbel Abou Haidar

Feb 02, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Nutrition Resilience Youth
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Virginia Tech and Collaborators Respond to Threatened Coconut Production in Bangladesh

A collaboration between Virginia Tech and local organizations in Bangladesh is working to improve the coconut industry in a moment of flux.

Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab

Feb 02, 2023
Agricultural Productivity
Women's hands hold seeds, they wear colorful Kenyan clothes.

Seed Innovation to Deliver Farmer Prosperity Month on Agrilinks

During the month of February, through blogs from experts around the world and an exciting virtual panel discussion, USAID will feature and discuss the challenges and successes of Seed Innovation...
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Jim Gaffney

Mark Huisenga

Feb 01, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Nutrition
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Shifting the Locus of Learning: Catalyzing Private Sector Learning to Drive Systemic Change

This Private Sector Learning Brief provides 10 proven, actionable strategies for learning at the market actor and systems levels from 13 programs and 11 countries.
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Market Systems and Partnerships MSP

MarketShare Associates

Ben Fowler

VIVEKAN JEYAGARAN

Anna Garloch

Meghan Bolden

Feb 01, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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Apply Now: Cross-Sectoral Digital Services Guidance

Qualified organizations can submit proposals to develop technical guidance for Implementing Partners that analyzes cross-sectoral efficiencies when implementing digital tech solutions within agriculture, nutrition, WSSH, and resilience sectoral areas.
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Juliet Terrill

Jan 31, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience Opportunities
Engaging women smallholder poultry farmers in a poultry value chain assessment.

Striving for Resilient Livestock Systems and Enhancing Women’s Livelihoods

Livestock smallholders are particularly vulnerable to shocks, such as climate variability and disease outbreaks among their animals, and women and children are at the forefront of this crisis as they...
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Genomics to Improve Poultry Innovation Lab

Jan 30, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Resilience
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Partnerships Social Media Week Snapshot

A snapshot of MSP’s Partnerships Social Media Week from December 2022, which highlighted emerging insights on co-development, de-risking innovation and upfront design assessments across private sector partnerships in southern Africa...
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Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships Activity

Jan 30, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Resilience
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Social Media and Drone Technology: Transforming Gender Norms for Women Livestock Farmers

This post is written by Madison Spinelli and Madeline Wong, Princeton in Africa Fellows at the International Livestock Research Institute.Small ruminants and chickens, which are often cared for by women...

Agrilinks Team

Jan 26, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender
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Building a Community: The Gender and Livestock Data Community of Practice

Discover how to collect, analyse and interpret livestock and gender data: a Livestock & Gender Data community of practice
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Fiona Allan

Johanna Wong

Anni McLeod

Alessandra Galie

Beth Miller

Jan 25, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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Farming under the Rainbow: LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development in Agriculture Programs in Honduras and Central America

Sep 28, 2022 online
Join the webinar to learn about important considerations and promising practices for advancing LGBTQI+ inclusive development in agriculture and food security programming.
Agricultural Productivity Gender Policy and Governance Youth
Life in pattern is a the ending of a particular month, when paddy crop seeds are cut off and separated. When this is done, the crops look beautiful for their vibrant colors and patterns of cutting.
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The Importance of Timely Analyses for Decision-Making during a Period of Crisis

Jul 27, 2022 online
Featuring interventions from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Fertilizer Development Center and AKADEMIYA2063. 
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Resilience
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Accelerating the Impact of Irrigation and Landscape-Level Agricultural Water Management at Scale

May 19, 2022 online
Exploring gaps and opportunities for future research in irrigation and landscape-level agricultural water management
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources
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Can Online Platforms Facilitate Locally Led Development?

Mar 09, 2022 online
Can information accessibility facilitate and scale locally-led development?
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension
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Managing Soils to Address Global Challenges

Feb 24, 2022 online
The lecture and discussion will outline global challenges including food and nutritional insecurity, climate change, soil degradation, water scarcity, and pollution.
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources
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A Vision for Crop Improvement and Food Security in a Changing Climate

Feb 10, 2022 online
The purpose of the workshop is to identify scientific opportunities to improve staple cereals in a changing climate
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension
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Grain Market: A Pull for Seed Businesses across Bean Corridors in Tanzania

Dec 17, 2021 online
An opportunity to share this information while collecting further insights on the Yellow Bean study’s implications.
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Markets and Trade
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Effective Pathways to Africa's Agricultural Transformation

Aug 04, 2021 online
A session to define the investments needed for a vibrant and functional African agricultural sector that can deliver sufficient food and nutrition supplies for all as well as exciting farmer incomes.
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension
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Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems

Jul 15, 2021 online
Identifying approaches and making recommendations that will diversify the range of publicly bred crop varieties available to smallholder farmers and increase varietal turnover through commercial channels.
Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Markets and Trade
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Enhancing Root, Tuber and Banana Crops’ Contribution to Food and Nutrition Security

May 27, 2021 online
This webinar presents recent advances and new innovations and approaches for this vital crop group supported by the work of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers & Bananas (RTB)
Agricultural Productivity Nutrition

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