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Innovation That’s Making a Difference: Integrated Pest Management in South Asia

Posted by  on Friday, March 15th 2013     
Marty McVey learns more about the IPM Innovation Lab's work in tomato grafting with Rangaswamy Muniappan of Virginia Tech. Photo credit: Marty McVey

Hon. Marty McVey, member of USAID’s Board for International Food and Agricultural Development visited food security projects in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Read more >>

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Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 13th 2013     
Azaratu Fushieni walks through her soy field. She has benefited from the assistance of a Feed the Future project, which helped her improve her agricultural practices and use better inputs. Photo credit: Elisa Walton, USAID

This month, USAID celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Read more >>

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Helping Haiti Recover Three Years Later

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 6th 2013     
On Monday, March 4, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack met with Haiti’s Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development Thomas Jacques who outlined his three year strategic plan for revitalization of the Haitian agriculture sector. Photo credit: USDA

Three years after the earthquake, USDA and USAID continue to help the Haitian agricultural sector recover. Read more >>

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Celebrating Peace Corps Week: Those Extraordinary Ordinary Volunteers!

Posted by  on Friday, March 1st 2013     
A Peace Corps volunteer trains his local community in Malawi on the nutritional benefits of growing soy. Photo credit: Peace Corps

This week, we’re celebrating our partner agency the Peace Corps during it’s annual Peace Corps Week. Read more >>

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Meeting the President’s Challenge to End Extreme Poverty

Posted by  on Friday, February 15th 2013     
Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world creates new markets and stability. Photo credit: USAID

We are advancing President Obama’s critical agenda to eradicate the scourge of extreme poverty through Feed the Future, the President’s signature global hunger and food security initiative. Read more >>

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USAID Promotes Good Farming Practices in Azerbaijan

Posted by  on Tuesday, February 12th 2013     
A local TV channel interviews USAID’s pomegranate expert at the USAID stand during the annual Pomegranate Festival in Goychay. Photo credit: Anar Azimzade/ACT

For the last couple of years, USAID has been supporting pomegranate farmers and processors with technical assistance and training. Read more >>

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Video of the Week: A New Kind of Development

Posted by  on Monday, December 31st 2012     
A New Kind of Development

With JP Morgan and the Gates, Gatsby, and Rockefeller Foundations, USAID delivers much needed growth capital to boost the productivity and profitability of Africa’s undercapitalized agriculture sector. Read more >>

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Video of the Week: Reaching Farmers Where it is Needed Most

Posted by  on Monday, December 24th 2012     
Senegal Maize Clip

Video of the Week: A video put together by the FEPROMAS team, a Senegalese farming federation, for USAID’s Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies project. Read more >>

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Bangladeshi Farmers Reap Rewards from New Agricultural Techniques

Posted by  on Thursday, October 18th 2012     

Half a world away from Des Moines, Iowa, where the World Food Prize “Borlaug Dialogue” International Symposium is being held this week, Bangladeshi farmers are hard at work sowing wheat and maize in their fields.

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From the Field: Farmer Cooperatives in Mozambique

Posted by  on Tuesday, October 16th 2012     

Last week I had the chance to travel around Mozambique with two Senate staff members who were interested in seeing how the U.S. Government is improving food security in the country.

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