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The Role of Food Security in Economic Recovery: Futureproofing and Building Resilience

Sep 23, 2020 | Sylvain Roy, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture

Irish Potato Farming on Terraces in Ngororero, Rwanda Food security is inextricably tied to economic wellbeing. They share a reciprocal relationship in which each paves the way for the other.…

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Moving Data from Assessment to Action For Gender Equality

Mar 16, 2020 | Danielle Niedermaier, Land O’Lakes Venture37

With strong support from the project and organizational leadership, the USAID-funded Cooperative Development Program (CDP) expects to make measurable impacts on women’s earning potential…

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Five Lessons from Impact Studies in Cocoa-Producing Communities

Dec 24, 2019 | Meghann Jones, Ipsos

Young cocoa farmers in Indonesia. Photo credit: Mondelez International Mondelēz International’s Cocoa Life is an outcome-driven sustainability program for cocoa-producing communities, fo…

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An Innovative Pathway to Smallholder Farmer Resilience During Pest Crises

Nov 13, 2019 | Ellen Galdava, FHI 360

The author, Ellen Galdava, presents her Innovation Challenge poster at the 2019 SEEP Annual Conference. What is FAW? Fall armyworm (FAW) has been making headlines across the world due to its d…

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Maximizing the Power of Climate Data by Building Trust

Sep 19, 2019 | Jeff Ratcliffe & Marie-Claire Tuzeneu, Chemonics

Community members in Koporo Pen Commune collect rainfall data using a rain gauge.
As the frequency and magnitude of climate-related hazards increases, these changes are affecting people&…

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A Is for Agriculture: How the A-Card is Helping Small Farmers in Bangladesh Gain Access to Finance

Dec 10, 2018 | Tania Sharmin & Emily Janoch, CARE

The A-Card. Photo credit: Akram Ali, CARE Bangladesh This blog was originally published on FinDev Gateway website. We are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. Despite…

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Learning From the Private Sector Experience in Working With Smallholder Farmers

Oct 29, 2018 | Amy Chambers and the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project

Photo Credit Fintrac Inc. A version of this post originally appeared on Marketlinks.org. Prepared by Fintrac Inc., “Private Sector Voices,” a new study from the Feed the Future Ena…

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Tracking Distortions versus Designing for Disruption

Oct 25, 2018 | Spencer Parsons, Chemonics International

Kseniya Sydorkina, Deputy Chief of Party on the USAID
Ukraine Agriculture and Rural Development Support project (ARDS) speaks at #SEEP2018 What is the difference between a market distorti…

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Progress through Partnerships: The Case of WEinSPIRE in Engaging Market Actors for Women's Empowerment

Sep 27, 2018 | Muhammad Junaid and Frenki Kozeli, Chemonics

The development community has long been in pursuit of partnerships with public and private sector actors to improve market systems. At its best, these partnerships result in more inclusive and…

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The Future of Food is Bleak. Here's How We Can Leverage the Private Sector to Face It.

Sep 26, 2018 | Ladd, ACDI/VOCA

With the recent publication of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation, many experts are turning their attention tow…

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Paving the Way for Data-driven Agriculture: Who's Your Farmer?

Sep 18, 2018 | Bobbi Gray, Grameen Foundation

Farmers from Kasapin, Ghana and their fermenting cocoa beans Defining a farmer is not a simple task Who’s your farmer? This sounds like a simple question for any agricultural interventio…

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Stimulating a Reliable Market for Maize

Sep 16, 2018 | Elizabeth Adams, Global Communities

About the Partnership: In Kenya, maize markets are fragmented and volatile, especially for vulnerable smallholder farmers. Many farmers continue to trade directly with unscrupulous middlemen.…

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Talking Resilience and Nutrition through Market Systems at SEEP Network Annual Conference

Feb 26, 2018 | ACDI/VOCA

This blog post was originally published by ACDI/VOCA. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. On October 2-4, the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network’s…

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How Improved Land Security Promotes Financial Inclusion for Ethiopian Farmers

Nov 17, 2017 | Clara García Parra

This case study from Amhara, a region in Ethiopia, highlights lessons learned from access to finance interventions within the Land Investment for Transformation Programme (LIFT). We look at ho…

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How to Navigate Tensions between Nutrition and Agricultural Development

Sep 26, 2017 | Ladd

Children and their mothers at a health clinic run by ACDI/VOCA's Resiliency through Wealth, Agriculture, and Nutrition (RWANU) project in Uganda We know that nutrition affects a person's prod…

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Creating Commercial Farmers: Partnering on Social Sector Franchising to Develop Food Systems in Cambodia

Sep 25, 2017 | Andy Hunter

Building scalable and sustainable food systems presents many challenges along farming value chains , not least of which is the point where our small holder famers interact with agricultural in…

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Changing Food and Market Systems to Improve Nutrition

Sep 13, 2017 | Dan Norell

I am writing this blog after just having completed a four-day training in Hawassa, Ethiopia of the "Integrating Extremely Poor Producers into Markets Field Guide" or Field Guide with the Stren…

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Challenges & Opportunities for Women's Economic Empowerment in Agriculture

Jul 19, 2017 | Raymond Brandes

This blog post originally appeared on the SNV Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series.…

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What Does Resilience Look Like?

May 22, 2017 | Kathleen Colson

This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The BOMA Project, and Mercy Corps at the 2017 WEE Forum for the Peer…

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Applying Lessons Learned to Strengthen Seed Systems

Sep 15, 2016 | Mark Sevier

"It's been a good harvest this year," said George, manager of Phoenix Seeds, a commercial farm in the Manica Province of Mozambique. Surrounded by stalks of maize, George gazed out at the vast…

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