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Discover content and resources related to agricultural development, food security, and cross-cutting issues. Theme Month Collections are curated content by experts in agricultural development and food security. Each month we highlight a new area within the field.

Theme Month Collections

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USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security COVID-19 Learning Hub

Submit learnings Access tools and resources View crop models and impacts of COVID-19

Enabling Environment for Agricultural Market Systems

This collection highlights contributions technical posts covering a range of key enabling environment for agricultural markets topics.

Photo by Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition (KISAN) Project, Nepal

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

This collection highlights research commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience on the drivers of sustained and transitory poverty escapes.

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Agricultural Productivity

  • Access to inputs
  • Genetic gains
  • Production technologies

Climate and Natural Resources

  • Sustainable intensification
  • Resilient soils
  • Water management

COVID-19

  • Best practices on adapting to COVID-19
  • Policy and organizational recommendations
  • Access the RFS COVID-19 Learning Hub

Education and Extension

  • Agricultural education and training (AET)
  • Skills transfer
  • Model programs

Food Safety

  • Food safety systems
  • Mycotoxins
  • Sanitation and hygiene

Gender

  • Women’s empowerment
  • Gender equality 
  • Gender integration

Markets and Trade

  • Market system facilitation
  • Profitable value chains
  • International trade

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

  • Measuring project outcomes
  • Knowledge management
  • Open data

Nutrition

  • First 1,000 days
  • Nutrition interventions
  • Nutrition-sensitive agriculture

Opportunities

  • RFAs/RFPs
  • Job postings
  • Calls for feedback

Policy and Governance

  • Strengthening institutions
  • Mutual accountability
  • Land tenure

Resilience

  • Risk management
  • Recovery from shocks
  • Sustainable livelihoods

Youth

  • Employment and entrepreneurship
  • Youth empowerment
  • Skills and capacity building