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A female farmer listens for messages about fall armyworm (FAW) management on her radio

The Power of Radio in Fight against Fall Armyworm Highlighted in New CABI-Led Study

Radio used in extension communication as part of a campaign aimed at increasing the identification, monitoring and management of the fall armyworm (FAW) pest amongst smallholder farmers in Zambia.

CABI: Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International

Sep 20, 2021

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Development Professionals: Why it matters for diversity and what we can do about it.

Oct 21, 2021 online

An interactive webinar to explore newly published research on COVID-19’s negative impact on MSD practitioners, particularly women, potentially drawing diverse current and future senior leaders away.

COVID-19 Markets and Trade Gender

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Food Security Programs

Sep 28, 2021 online

This webinar will present tools, resources, and field experiences for implementers to prevent, mitigate, and respond to GBV in agriculture programming. 

Gender

The Kawolor Project Puts Decision-Making Power in the Hands of Local Women

The USAID Feed the Future Senegal Kawolor project places women at the heart of nutrition and food security interventions in Senegal.

NCBA CLUSA

Sep 10, 2021

Education and Extension Gender Nutrition

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Can Youth Migration Be an Asset Rather than a Liability in the Senegal Groundnut Basin?

Sep 22, 2021 online

A discussion of recent research and policy briefs from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut project, “Retaining next generation farmers in the Senegalese groundnut basin.”

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

Women take a boat ride as part of a Ground Truthing visit.

The Learning Agenda Meeting: Providing Innovation through Collaboration

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish Learning Agenda Meetings provide a forum for the research teams to share what they have learned.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

Aug 31, 2021

COVID-19 Education and Extension Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Youth

Impact of COVID-19 Agriculture Extension Services: Implications for Female Farmers

Gender plays an important role in determining access to agricultural information and extension; however, gender-responsive extension services continue to be inadequate in Nepal and South Asia.

Cynthia Carmona

Aug 25, 2021

Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Gender

The “3 Rs” of Promoting Women’s Engagement in Food Systems

Women are active participants in food systems, but their contributions are not always recognized. World Vision proposes a “3 Rs” approach to partnering with women for sustainable food systems.

Chloe Bass

Aug 17, 2021

Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Climate and Natural Resources Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience

Young woman participating in tractor driving school

The Return on Investment of Social Inclusion: An Evidence Gap Analysis from Developing Countries

MSP analyzed evidence on return on investment for social inclusion in developing countries. Check out key evidence gaps and quality issues, and recommendations for future research to close these gaps.

Market Systems and Partnerships MSP

Erin Markel

Friederike Strub

Aug 16, 2021

Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Youth

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

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Women’s Empowerment in Beyond-Production Activities

Mar 31, 2021 online

Women engage in a variety of agricultural roles across the value chain. Many approaches, promising practices, and tools to support women’s empowerment in production have emerged in recent years. However...

Markets and Trade Gender

Man in field holding strawberries, woman in market, and woman looking in microscope

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Why Inclusion Matters: Featuring Voices from the Field

Jul 29, 2020 online

Inclusive Development Month on Agrilinks is wrapping up with with a webinar that will report on the most recent evidence on what inclusion means across varying contexts, why inclusion is so important to reaching our goals of reducing hunger and poverty, and hearing voices from the field regarding their own experiences on why inclusion matters.

Gender Policy and Governance Youth

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Webinar: What’s lurking in your value chain? Uncovering the hidden costs of gender-based violence in agriculture

Oct 30, 2019 online

Please join Agrilinks and the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program on the eve of Halloween for a webinar on gender dimensions in agriculture. This webinar will explore the...

Gender

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Overcoming Gender Barriers to Accessing and Using Climate Information Services

Apr 25, 2018 online

Women play a unique role guaranteeing household food security and building resilience to shocks and stresses. While discussions at the intersection of gender equity/social inclusion and resilience often focus on...

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Resilience

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Can Small-Scale Irrigation Empower Women?

Oct 31, 2017 online

Can small-scale irrigation empower women? This is one of the critical questions that the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), led by Texas A&M University, has been...

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender

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Your Input is Requested: The new Global Food Security Strategy Indicators

Jun 15, 2017 to Jun 30, 2017 online

See final list of GFSS indicators submitted to the U.S. Congress in October 2017. [Note: Now that the indicators have been sent to Congress, the other documents and links on...

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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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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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