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Women farmers in Mozambique

Partnering to Close the Gender Gap in Agrifood Systems

As FAO’s new Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAS) report makes clear, women farmers face hurdles that men do not: unequal access to and control over key productive assets.
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Karol Boudreaux

May 04, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Policy and Governance
A female dairy farmer in Senegal carries fresh milk in a bowl.

Challenges and Solutions to Improving the Safety of Dairy Products in Senegal

Two new papers offer analyses of food safety gaps in Senegal's dairy value chain and solutions to reduce foodborne illness.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

May 02, 2023
Food Safety Gender Nutrition
Two people hold a net full of fish. (Photo by Oladeji Kazeem Kareem)

Integrated Rice-Fish Farming: Localization Through Farm Diversification

The practice of farming rice and fish simultaneously aims to improve the productivity, resilience and biological diversity of the rice field while making optimal use of water and land resources.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

Apr 28, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Gender Resilience Youth
Farmer in Faridpur, Bangladesh, using the Plantix mobile crop application.

Lessons Learned in Bangladesh: Engaging Women in Digital Agriculture Tools

The role of women in agriculture is crucial, especially in countries like Bangladesh where they make up almost half of the sector’s labor force.
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Digital Frontiers: Digital for Resilience and Food Security

Apr 28, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender
Four men sit on the floor and craft seedballs.

Seedball Techniques Support Vital Crops

Seedball planting technique helps smallholder farmers grow pearl millet in Niger. Learn about a successful initiative by Feed the Future Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab.

Benjamin Kohl, Ph.D.

Apr 27, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Gender Resilience
Dr. Hannatou Moussa Oumarou with seedball machine.

Examining How Seedball Technology Improves Farming

Proven seedball technique provides new opportunities to women and smallholder farmers.
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Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab (SMIL)

Apr 27, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Gender Resilience Youth
Two women in Malawi walk along a dirt road holding pails on their heads supported by their arms.

Applying GenderUp to Localize Inclusivity for a Horticulture Marketplace App in Malawi

Not every innovation includes everyone. In Malawi, GenderUp leveraged its participant-driven format and local research leadership for insights on scaling a horticultural marketplace app inclusively.

MRR Innovation Lab

Katheryn Gregerson

Apr 18, 2023
Markets and Trade Gender
Woman smiles next to fish traps.

New USAID Commitment Aims to Tackle Urgent Challenges Facing Women in Food and Water Systems

USAID launches the GROW initiative with up to $335 million to empower women in food and water systems, boost economic growth and tackle climate-driven crises.

Agrilinks Team

Apr 17, 2023
Climate and Natural Resources Gender
A woman, man, and their children in Uganda stand in a line smiling and holding apples from their family farm.

Interview Insights — Inclusive Market Research Methods of the Private Sector

Real-life examples of companies benefiting from inclusive market research, Part 1.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program

Apr 12, 2023
Markets and Trade Gender
People harvesting soy in Malawi.

Learning from Private Sector Approaches to Inclusive Market Research

In this learning burst, we introduce the topic of inclusive market research and its importance to aligning with the private sector.
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Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program

Apr 11, 2023
Markets and Trade 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
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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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Relationships for Resilience: Understanding and Integrating Gender and Nutrition in CSA

Dec 08, 2016 online
The Agrilinks team will host a webinar component of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (CSA-GLEE) session, Why Does Addressing Gender and Nutrition Matter for Climate-Smart Agriculture?, and...
Climate and Natural Resources Gender Nutrition Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Youth
Photo: USAID FeedtheFuture
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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
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Yes, G-CAN! Endorsing Food Security With Gender-Responsive and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Nov 10, 2016 online
Join this special webinar and discover how the Feed the Future Gender-Sensitive Climate-Smart Agriculture for Nutrition (G-CAN) initiative aims to support USAID on the new Global Food Security Strategy. Specifically...
Gender Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity
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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...
Youth Education and Extension Gender Policy and Governance Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Policy and Governance

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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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