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How Better-Trained Farmers are Slowing Brazil’s Deforestation
In partnership with Mercy Corps and the Skoll Foundation, USAID along with Imazon, is proving that environmental sustainability, economic growth, land rights and good governance can actually go together. Read more >>
A Promise Renewed: A Great Global Ambition and Every Father’s Dream
Photo of the Week: Improving Nutrition in Honduras
Mothers in Honduras are being taught how to prepare more nutritious food for their undernourished children through USAID ACCESO program. Read more >>
Increasing Economic Growth without Increasing Emissions
How can the Philippines continue its economic growth yet make it both equitable and sustainable in the long term? Read more >>
Video of the Week: Our New Partnership for Global Development Innovation Ventures
Administrator Shah discusses a new partnership for Global Development Innovation Ventures with DFID – UK Department for International Development & Omidyar Network. Read more >>
It’s The Silent Killer: Undernutrition
The U.S. Government through USAID and the Feed the Future initiative are striving to cut the death toll for children under 5 years old. Read more >>
New ACVFA Working Group to Broaden Feed the Future’s Impact
Last week Administrator Shah joined the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) to launch a working group focused on civil society collaboration under the Feed the Future initiative. Read more >>
USAID in the News
A Good Place to Start to Improve Schools
A capacity-building program sponsored by USAID is helping local leaders, both men and women, take responsibility for their school. Read more >>
Cooperation for Better Development and Security
At a recent national security conference, USAID participated in a discussion on the growing role of special operations forces (SOF) in twenty-first-century security. Read more >>
