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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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COVID-19 Response through Connecting Migrations to Farm Mechanization and Services Provision in Rural Nepal

By identifying migrants who have returned back to Nepal due to COVID-19 and linking them with machinery dealers, the project will work to turn crisis into opportunity.

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Anton Urfels

Aug 11, 2021
Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Resilience Youth
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New PlantwisePlus Program Launched to Help Farmers Produce More and Higher-Quality Food

A new, worldwide program has been launched to help support low and lower-middle income countries to predict, prepare themselves for and prevent plant health threats in a changing climate.

CABI: Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International

Aug 10, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth
Verification and Project Management is the fifth phase in AgResults' prize design process.

Impactful Design at a Glance: Verification and Project Management for a Prize Competition

The last steps to design an effective Pay-for-Results prize competition are to create a thorough verification plan and a detailed project management approach. So what does that look like?

AgResults Initiative

Aug 10, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute scientist during the surveillance training program in Bangladesh

By Tracking the Weather, A New System Can Protect Brazilian Farmers from Wheat Blast

An international partnership of researchers and organizations have created the wheat blast Early Warning System (EWS).

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Cynthia Carmona

Aug 09, 2021
Agricultural Productivity
One of the 10,000 farmers served by the Koga irrigation scheme in Ethiopia uses a chameleon sensor to help determine how much to irrigate.

Recognizing the Critical Role of Agricultural Research and Development for Resilient Food Systems

This post summarizes the findings and calls to action presented by the co-hosting organizations in their event report on the U.N. Food Systems Summit Science Days side event.

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Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

Aug 06, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Policy and Governance Resilience
Farmer tends to land under Suchana Program in Bangladesh

Developing the Market Systems Resilience Index (MSRI)

Understanding market systems resilience using an adaptable and holistic framework, the Market Systems Resilience Index (MSRI).

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Victoria Seekman

Aug 04, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience
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The African Seed Access Index: Democratic Republic of the Congo Country Report

The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) evaluated the enabling environment for the seed industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Jason Eaves

Aug 03, 2021
Agricultural Productivity
Structuring prizes is the third phase of AgResults' design process to create Pay-for-Results prize competitions.

Impactful Design at a Glance: Structuring Prizes for a Pay-for-Results Competition

Designing a Pay-for-Results prize competition and curious how to structure an effective and motivating prize? This AgResults design brief — the third in a series — walks you through the...

AgResults Initiative

Aug 02, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Resilience
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Village-Based Advisors Deliver Critical Extension Services to Smallholder Farmers

Village-based advisors (VBAs) are recruited and trained by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to offer extension advice to peers, helping smallholder farmers increase productivity.

Agrilinks Team

Jul 30, 2021
Agricultural Productivity
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How Acceso and Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation are Transforming El Salvador’s Agricultural Sector

Thanks to an innovative approach by Acceso, with Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation, smallholder vegetable producers are equipped to connect to the country’s agricultural opportunities.

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Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Jul 30, 2021
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Risky Business: Food Safety Concerns in Agricultural Development

Jul 13, 2016 online

Meeting food safety standards is an increasing constraint to market access for farmers in developing countries. Recent studies show that the global health burden of foodborne disease (FBD) is equivalent...

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Policy and Governance
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From Citizen Security to Food Security: A cross-sector discussion of violence in Central America

Jun 20, 2016 online

The high prevalence of violence in Central America is a major human and institutional development challenge that the Feed the Future project, Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education (InnovATE), has...

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Research in Action: Insights about Loyalty and Governance in Farmer-Based Organizations

May 25, 2016 online

One of the major challenges for producer-owned cooperatives, farmer organizations and out-grower schemes alike is the lack of farmer loyalty exemplified by side selling to other entities. Although loyalty plays...

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Policy and Governance Gender
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Ask Ag About… Working with Farmer Groups

May 18, 2016 online

This chat took place in the comments section at the bottom of this page. Please scroll down to read the discussion! Although the active time period with the featured experts...

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Enabling the Business of Agriculture

May 12, 2016 online

This webinar covered the World Bank Group's newly released report, Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016: Comparing regulatory good practices. During the webinar, presenters: Recapped the objectives and methodology of...

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Markets and Trade Policy and Governance Resilience Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade
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Ask Ag About... Impact Investing in Wild Fisheries

Apr 27, 2016 online

Join us on April 27 for an online discussion about impact investing in wild fisheries!Last week's Ag Sector Council Seminar showed how private sector investments are part of the equation...

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Interactive Voice Response: Its Growing Role in Agricultural Extension Services

Apr 14, 2016 online

From India and Ethiopia to Malawi and Madagascar, interactive voice response (IVR) is increasingly being used by agricultural extension services. Often detested by Americans because of overuse in customer service...

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Resources from the Climate-Smart Agriculture GLEE, Zambia

Mar 13, 2016 to Mar 16, 2016 Lusaka, Zambia
March's Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (GLEE) took place in Lusaka, Zambia. The USAID Bureau for Food Security, in collaboration with the USAID/Zambia Mission and others, planned this...
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Operational Implications of Integrating Climate Smart Agriculture into Feed the Future Activities

Feb 18, 2016 online
Climate-Smart Agriculture is one of the three cross-cutting themes within the Feed the Future initiative along with environment and gender. Global consensus is coalescing around the Climate-Smart Agriculture approach and...
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Building Linkages in Agricultural Education and Training through Systems Thinking

Feb 17, 2016 Ronald Reagan Building, Oceanic Room 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States

The application of systems thinking to agricultural education and training (AET) is critical to sustainable agricultural development. By understanding complete AET systems and the connections within them, practitioners can account...

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