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Tag archives for Irrigation

It’s All In the Evidence: Water Challenge Demonstrates the Power of Doing Development Differently

Posted by  on Thursday, October 11th 2018     
A panorama of an auditorium, looking from the rear toward the stage

SWFF’s shared lessons and achievements presented at the recent World Water Week in Stockholm inspire a new and enhanced offshoot program to grow and scale innovations that will help solve current and impending food, water and energy crises.

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Certificates to Irrigated Land Increase Resilience among Ethiopian Pastoralists

Posted by  on Thursday, August 8th 2013     

Entrepreneurial pastoralists in Ethiopia are investing not only in built capital but also in natural capital. Read more >>

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USAID Boosts Agricultural Production in Yemen

Posted by  on Tuesday, July 2nd 2013     

During a recent visit to Yemen, Assistant Administrator for the Middle East had the opportunity to see the many ways that USAID is boosting agriculture in the country.

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Outcomes are Nice, But What About Measuring Them?

Posted by  on Monday, April 8th 2013     

The main lesson that we have learned is that outcomes take time to generate, are iterative and not linear. There are not magic bullet solutions in getting to outcomes.

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Investing in Women to Defeat Hunger in Malawi

Posted by  on Friday, June 10th 2011     

Submitted by guest blogger Anita McCabe, Country Director, Concern Worldwide, Malawi As the hot, dry breeze wafts through the lakeside district of Nkhotakota, Malawi, a group of women sing as they take turns to water their near-ripe crop of maize. Further downstream, another group is busy making seed beds in preparation for another crop. Like […]

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Pic of the Week

Posted by  on Thursday, July 22nd 2010     

As Haiti passes six months since the earthquake, men and women are employed in the USAID-funded reconstruction of an irrigation canal that not only provides a source of water for agriculture and livestock, but also a source of income for Haitians.

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