Women make up about 43 percent of the agricultural workforce in many developing countries, positioning them in a critical and transformative role in agricultural growth, food and nutrition security, and poverty reduction. Women also play an important role within their families as income earners and caregivers. In 2010, USAID approached IFPRI and the Oxford Poverty >> Read more
Getting Ahead of the Game: Strengthening Resilience to Reduce Poverty
Over the years, various shocks (such as climate change and conflicts) have become increasingly frequent and intense in developing countries, adversely affecting agricultural growth, negatively impacting farmers’ lives, pushing people into poverty, and threatening people’s ability to lift themselves out of poverty. To help the most vulnerable people tackle these shocks in the long term, USAID >> Read more
Championing Evidence- Based Regional Agricultural Policies and Mutual Accountability
In 2003, African countries came together with a common vision to accelerate Africa’s growth through agriculture- led development. Out of this vision, the African Union launched the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)—a policy framework for agricultural transformation, wealth creation, food security and nutrition, economic growth, and prosperity for all of Africa by addressing key >> Read more
Ghana Strategy Support Program
The Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP), established in 2005, produced critical evidence that contributed to the foundation of the country’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) process, roundtable, and country compact. For example, in 2008, GSSP’s paper “Accelerating Growth and Structural Transformation: Ghana’s Options for Reaching Middle-Income Country Status” was used as an input to >> Read more
Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally
In 2011, USAID launched the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project to scale up high-impact nutrition practices and policies from different countries. With assistance from IFPRI, SPRING provides governments with state-of-the- art technical support focused on preventing stunting and maternal and child anemia in the first 1,000 days, linking agriculture and >> Read more
HarvestPlus: Biofortification
Since the founding of HarvestPlus, a joint venture by IFPRI and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), USAID has been an important partner in addressing “hidden hunger”—malnutrition caused by micronutrient deficiencies—by breeding high levels of micronutrients into staple crops through a process called biofortification. HarvestPlus has successfully improved access to biofortified crops, resulting in >> Read more
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