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Tag archives for Food Security
Flower Power: How Your Valentine’s Day Bouquet is Helping Fight Poverty
Besides showing your special Valentine that you care, flowers are also an important commodity that is changing the lives of Kenyan farmers and improving their food security. Read more >>
8 Things Our Future Military Leaders Need to Know About Water Management
One day, our future military leaders will be planning and implementing peace-keeping operations, and it is important for them to know how water management approaches can help foster stability, resilience and economic growth. Read more >>
Public, Private, and Civil Society Partnerships in Action
An alliance between USAID, Save the Children and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. maximizes the use of resources and helps to identify new solutions to challenges affecting Latin America and the Caribbean. Read more >>
FrontLines Year in Review: A Right to Land
Property rights are proving to be a solid foundation for economic empowerment for individuals, corporations and nations, and a potential solution to shore up food security in developing countries. Read more >>
FrontLines Year in Review: Catching Ethiopians Before They Fall
Today, one of Africa’s largest social safety nets does not just protect against chronic food insecurity, it helps communities weather the future. Read more >>
Video of the Week: 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 >>
Interagency Panel on Economic Statecraft to Create Competitive Foreign Markets
Last Monday, December 10, I had the opportunity to speak at an interagency panel on the topic of Economic Statecraft and Developing Partnerships with the Private Sector. Read more >>
Photo of the Week: Reaching out to Youth in Latin America
Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg traveled with Assistant Administrator Mark Feierstein to Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico Read more >>
Coding for Hunger: Not Development as Usual
Barbara’s mother was desperate – there was nothing in the house to feed her children or herself. Read more >>
