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Growing youth populations need opportunities for education, jobs and income. Strategies that empower and prepare youth lay the foundation for economic growth and poverty reduction.

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New Legume Systems Innovation Lab Program Addresses 5 Themes

Learn how the newly developed Resilience Resource Team is helping the Legume Systems Research Lab projects understand and address 5 themes.

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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research

Aug 10, 2020
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Resilience Youth
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Agricultural Development: Youth, Women, Market Systems

This landscape analysis explores the strategies market systems development activities use to include women and male and female youth in programming, and the outcomes of those strategies.

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Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program

Aug 05, 2020
Markets and Trade Gender Youth
Youth from the Uganda National Youth Farmers Association learning from a horticultural training center set up by a fellow youth on innovative gardening when constrained by land

Private Sector Youth Engagement in Uganda: Is this Sustainable?

To understand how the youth were engaged in private sector EAS and how sustainability was designed and achieved, a study was initiated by DLEC in Uganda and Rwanda.

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Kristin Davis

Richard Miiro

Beatrice Luzobe

Steven Franzel

Nicolas Uwitonze

Aug 03, 2020
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender Youth
Utoma Youth Group Meeting during COVID-19 outbreak

Youth-led Agricultural Initiatives in Kenya During COVID-19

How has the COVID-19 pandemic specifically affected youth involved in agriculture?

Himaja Nagireddy

Aug 03, 2020
Agricultural Productivity COVID-19 Resilience Youth
Farmers making hybrid squash via "pollination" in Nursery with AGRIWIN ltd at Kicukiro district, Rwanda. Photo Credit: Robert Nzambamwita, Feb. 2020

Rwandan Youth Engagement in Private Extension and Advisory Services

Examining ways to engage youth in Rwanda as both providers and recipients of extension.

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Nicolas Uwitonze

Kristin Davis

Steven Franzel

Jul 30, 2020
Education and Extension Youth
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Application Request: Pathogens Pathway Study for Children Under 2 Years Old in Southeastern Madagascar

PRO-WASH is announces the release of the Pathogens Pathway Study for Children under two years old in Southeastern Madagascar Request for Applications (RFA). The activity will fund one award under...

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Kim Jurczyk

Kim Thompson

Jul 16, 2020
Nutrition Youth Opportunities
Meymuna Barrow is one of a growing number of youth who have received scholarships for vocational education through the LMS Activity.

Inclusive Market Systems Expand Northern Kenya’s Youth Opportunities

Young people in Northern Kenya are often excluded from economic opportunities because they lack the critical skills and resources needed to engage. Youth scholarships, internships, and apprenticeships have the power...

ACDI / VOCA

Jul 14, 2020
Markets and Trade Resilience Youth
VSFS Internship Announcement

2020 Virtual Student Federal Service Internship Program Is Open for Applications - Work with USAID!

The annual Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) e-internship program is open for applications! The Bureau for Resilience and Food Security has 8 projects available this year. Apply by July 31!

Julie MacCartee

Jul 10, 2020
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Resilience Youth Opportunities
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Including Youth in Agriculture through Extension and Advisory Services

This blogpost examines the role of extension and advisory services in engaging youth in agriculture through receiving or providing the services.

Kristin Davis

Beatrice Luzobe

Steven Franzel

Jul 10, 2020
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender Youth
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin visits an association of women rice farmers and processors in northern Ghana in 2012, where she learned about their activities and achievements.

Enabling Environment for Gender Equality: The Ghana Experience

Addressing financial barriers by working with local authorities to mobilize Ghanaian women to save in small increments and access microloans through village savings and loans associations (VSLAs).

Agrilinks Team

Jul 08, 2020
Gender Resilience Youth

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