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Local Service Provider Romaric Guel shares a story with trainees in Burkina Faso. Photo credit: Isso Bationo

Local Service Providers Guide Young People's Careers in Fragile Contexts

The Life Project Approach goes beyond market orientation, using a pre-training framework focused on community ties. Local Service Providers — serving as mentors and coaches — are key to this...

Becky Neely, Helvetas USA

Apr 26, 2023

Education and Extension Youth

Putting Local Partners at the Wheel of Capacity Strengthening Activities

Effective localization of capacity development is critical to achieving sustainable development outcomes in the livestock and agricultural sectors.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

Apr 26, 2023

Education and Extension Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

A person standing in front of a workshop audience with their hands outstretched in front of them.

Educators, The Real Influencers

Educators are the real influencers because they have the power to shape the minds of the next generation.

Daniel Foster

Apr 06, 2023

Education and Extension Youth

Evah Kinyua on her farm sharing how Shamba Shape Up helped her expand and diversify.

Edutainment Model Shakes Up—and “Shapes Up”—International Development Communications

Do you watch Shamba Shape Up? “I actually have an alarm set,” said Evah Kinyua, a farmer in Ngong, Kenya. “We have phone alarms for Saturday and Sunday. When the...

Kendra Poole

Apr 05, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender

April is Localization Month on Agrilinks

Localization is also about who we engage and how we engage them. This process of shifting power must also be done inclusively.

Susan Pologruto

Apr 03, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension

Three photos of F2F volunteers in Colombia, Guatemala, and Guyana.

Women-led Capacity Sharing for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Caribbean Basin

Since 2019, over 180 U.S.-based women have volunteered their technical expertise through F2F assignments in our six host countries. From the field to the market, these volunteers support local partners...

Susanna Meyer

Mar 29, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender Nutrition

A woman stands amid rows of ground nuts in plastic bowls.

Local Demand from Local Scientists: Improving Groundnut Breeding in Africa with Precision Technologies

As an enigmatic plant disease threatens one of the most important legume crops in Africa, a Pan Africa network of plant breeders collected germplasm and leveraged state-of-the-art genotyping to find...

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut

Mar 28, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Policy and Governance Resilience

Women farmers in Kasungu district of Malawi talk with researchers from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut and others in February about the training and input support they receive from Limbe Leaf.

Researching Challenges and Opportunities for Gender-Inclusive Groundnut Commercialization in Malawi

As Malawi makes a historic transition away from tobacco as its dominant cash crop, companies in the tobacco sector are turning to other crops, such as groundnut, and working to...

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut

Mar 28, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Policy and Governance

A group of people stand in front of a forest in Ethiopia.

Sustainable Forestry for Water Security and Livelihood Sustenance

Farmers in the CRV were thrilled by the concepts of participatory forest management, ecosystem conservation and efficient use of water resources.

Yonas Tafesse Qoricho

Mar 27, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Resilience

A man stands in a paddy field in Punjab, India

Digging Into Soil Health

Multiple definitions of soil health exist and the concept is easy to understand and support; however, it has been difficult to capture its definition with measurements.

Dinesh Panday

Mar 24, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Food Safety Resilience Youth

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Market Systems Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (GLEE) - Bangkok, Thailand

Mar 21, 2017 to Mar 24, 2017 Conrad Bangkok Hotel 87 Witthayu Rd, Khwaeng Lumphini, Khet Pathum Wan, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Bangkok, 10330, Thailand

The U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Food Security (USAID BFS) has collaborated with leaders and practitioners across the development landscape to share knowledge, good practices and lessons learned...

Markets and Trade Agricultural Productivity Resilience Nutrition Policy and Governance Education and Extension Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Markets and Trade Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience

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Women Without Borders: Gender and Informal Cross-Border Trade

Mar 08, 2017 online

March 8, 2017 Around 70 to 80 percent of informal cross-border traders (ICBT) in the southern Africa region are women. Although cross-border trade helps many women become economically empowered, it...

Markets and Trade Gender Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety

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Ask Ag About... Positive Youth Development

Feb 22, 2017 online

Involving youth in agriculture has become a major focus in development, as many countries continue to struggle with youth unemployment. Join this month's Ask Ag Online Chat, where the Feed...

Youth Education and Extension Gender Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance

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Ask Ag About... How Food Systems Need to Adapt as Populations Shift and Grow

Jan 26, 2017 online

As urbanization continues to skyrocket in cities across the globe, the role of rural agricultural production to feed urban populations becomes increasingly difficult. Join this month’s Ask Ag online chat...

Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Youth

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Webinar: Addressing Food Safety in Animal Source Foods for Improved Nutrition

Jan 25, 2017 online

January 25, 2017 This is the third event in the Livestock & Household Nutrition Learning Series, convened by Land O’Lakes International Development and the International Livestock Research Institute and funded...

Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Nutrition Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience

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Increasing Genetic Gains for Food Security in the Developing World: Identifying innovative solutions to legumes, roots, tubers and bananas breeding

Jan 11, 2017 to Jan 27, 2017 Online Discussion Right here on this event page! Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This AgExchange is being held in conjunction with a USAID-sponsored session on January 17 at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference XXIV.The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food...

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Nutrition Policy and Governance Gender

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Strengthening Early Generation Seed Systems in Africa and Beyond

Dec 14, 2016 Ronald Reagan Building - Oceanic Room 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C., 20004, United States

Feed the Future has, along with partners, recently unearthed some powerful findings on how to make systems for producing and delivering breeder and foundation seed (aka early generation seed) work...

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (CSA-GLEE), Cambodia

Dec 05, 2016 to Dec 09, 2016 Angkor Paradise Hotel National Road No.6, Phum Sala Kanseng Sangkat Svay Dangkoum, Siem Reap, Cambodia

The December 2016 Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (CSA-GLEE) is being held in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The USAID Bureau for Food Security, in collaboration with the USAID/Cambodia Mission...

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Policy and Governance Education and Extension Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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Breaking Barriers: Integrating Gender and Nutrition Into Extension Services

Nov 16, 2016 online

Extension professionals are fully committed to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening communities, but there is still a great need across the board to better integrate gender and nutrition into their...

Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade

USAID Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access - Mind the Gap

Agrilinks Event

Mind the Gap - Exploring the Disparities Between Smallholder Farmer Practice and Potential

Nov 03, 2016 Ronald Reagan Building, Polaris Room 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States

What is the yield gap, and how does it link to smallholder farmers and poverty? Although new tools, fertilizers, and hybrid seeds are available to increase crop yields, a gap...

Agricultural Productivity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education and Extension Policy and Governance Education and Extension Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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Education and Extension

Local Service Providers Guide Young People's Careers in Fragile Contexts

Becky Neely, Helvetas USA

Putting Local Partners at the Wheel of Capacity Strengthening Activities

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

Educators, The Real Influencers

Melanie Miller Foster

Daniel Foster

Edutainment Model Shakes Up—and “Shapes Up”—International Development Communications

Kendra Poole

April is Localization Month on Agrilinks

Susan Pologruto

Women-led Capacity Sharing for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Caribbean Basin

Susanna Meyer

Local Demand from Local Scientists: Improving Groundnut Breeding in Africa with Precision Technologies

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut

Researching Challenges and Opportunities for Gender-Inclusive Groundnut Commercialization in Malawi

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut

Sustainable Forestry for Water Security and Livelihood Sustenance

Yonas Tafesse Qoricho

Digging Into Soil Health

Dinesh Panday

Market Systems Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (GLEE) - Bangkok, Thailand

Women Without Borders: Gender and Informal Cross-Border Trade

Ask Ag About... Positive Youth Development

Ask Ag About... How Food Systems Need to Adapt as Populations Shift and Grow

Webinar: Addressing Food Safety in Animal Source Foods for Improved Nutrition

Increasing Genetic Gains for Food Security in the Developing World: Identifying innovative solutions to legumes, roots, tubers and bananas breeding

Strengthening Early Generation Seed Systems in Africa and Beyond

Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (CSA-GLEE), Cambodia

Breaking Barriers: Integrating Gender and Nutrition Into Extension Services

Mind the Gap - Exploring the Disparities Between Smallholder Farmer Practice and Potential

ICTforAG 2023 Launch Event

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