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Fully integrating gender into development programs is proven to improve lives, livelihoods and development outcomes.

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Heifer International connects women farmers to digital agriculture content to improve production and help them scale their businesses.

Building Trust in Technology: How an Agricultural App Is Taking Root Among Women Farmers in Nepal

What would you do if you had developed an amazing mobile phone application with practical information that people could use to improve their quality of life?
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Lana Alnesany

Jun 02, 2023
Education and Extension Gender
Two women kneel on the floor and fill plastic bags.

What Have We Learning About Working with the Private Sector to Engage Women and Youth in Agricultural Development?

Explore important learning around how MSD programs can integrate the private sector to advance inclusion of women and youth in agriculture.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment

Meg Buckley

Jun 02, 2023
Markets and Trade Gender
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YSG Highlights Four Key Enablers of Youth Empowerment for Achieving Sustainable Agrifood Systems

The first cohort of the Young Scientists Group has highlighted four key enablers of youth empowerment: education, technology, science and policy.

Dinesh Panday

May 31, 2023
Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Food Safety Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth
A worker handling black soldier flies.

5 Ways That Insect Farming Contributes to Sustainable Food Systems and Improves International Development

Insect farming is a sustainable alternative to current animal feed production systems that can generate nutritious food while using resources more efficiently and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Kaitlyn Anderson

May 26, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth
Six people wade in the community-dug Dookolee reservoir. Credit: Lord Kweku Sekyi

Examining Why Context and Community Input are Essential for Water Resource Transformations

Solving the water crisis is not simply a case of providing technology. It also requires effective governance of emerging transformations of water resources and community input.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

May 22, 2023
Climate and Natural Resources Gender Policy and Governance
Jamaa and his wife (both activity participants) display their goats in Kokotoni Village. (Photo by Christopher Cheupe)

Kenyan Fisherman Improves His Livelihood and Family Wellbeing Through Modified Basket Traps and Training

Jamaa has improved his fishing efforts after receiving fishing traps from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish activity.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

May 19, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth
young boy carries 2 large cans of vegetable oil under his arms

We Cannot Miss this Planting Season: Women, Conflict and Consequences for Food in Sudan

Sudan needs lasting peace and cannot afford to miss this planting season. If the season is missed, the number of people going hungry — 25 percent of the population —...

Emily Janoch

May 18, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender Nutrition
A woman wearing a hairnet and mask holds plastic packaging.

Lessons from Ask the Expert: How Inclusive Market Research Can Advance Business and Development Outcomes

Lessons from experts and private sector companies on how inclusive market research can advance business and development outcomes.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program

May 11, 2023
Markets and Trade Gender
Nnanna Hyacinth Chuckwu inspects the rice-fish farm. (Photo by Bamidele Omitoyin/University of Ibadan)

Rice-Fish Farming Increases Yield, Improves Household Nutrition and Income for Nigerian Families

The Fish Innovation Lab's Farm Diversification team provided entry-level training for smallholder Nigerian rice farmers who had little knowledge of aquaculture.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

May 09, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Resilience Youth
The nutrition educator assistant visits with a woman and her young child at their home. (Photo by Catherine Sarange, nutrition educator for Samaki Salama activity)

Samaki Salama: Helping a Grandmother in Kenya Provide Better Nutrition to her Granddaughter

Thanks to the Samaki Salama team from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish, Medza learns how to cook more nutritious meals for her young granddaughter.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

May 05, 2023
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Youth

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Into, Through and Beyond USAID Programs: Lessons from the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Mar 29, 2023 online
Through a series of evidence briefs, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) aims to analyze and synthesize what has been learned from existing WEAI studies and data to date. 
Gender
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Strengthening Livestock Systems through Climate-Smart and Gender-Sensitive Approaches

Jan 18, 2023 online
An event on Feed the Future efforts to strengthen animal feed, fodder and forage production and feeding approaches as a major solution for the climate crisis and women’s empowerment.
Climate and Natural Resources Gender
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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
A woman counsels a survivor of gender-based violence.
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Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development

Jul 14, 2022 online
Introducing the Toolkit to Address Gender-based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development to provide practical, how-to guidance for agriculture.
Gender
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Using Digital Finance to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture

Mar 30, 2022 online
Learn about promoting women’s economic empowerment in agriculture using digital financial services.
Gender
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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
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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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Upcoming Events

From Research to Impact: Towards Just and Resilient Agri-Food Systems

Oct 09, 2023 to Oct 12, 2023 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Webinar: Why My Mother’s Prenatal Diet and Pre-Pregnancy Weight Matter: Impact of Offspring Growth and Neurodevelopment

Jun 07, 2023 United States online

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