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.…
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…
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…
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…
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&…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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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