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New results from pilot projects in the Mali and Burkina Faso cotton sectors show how index insurance can accelerate and protect growth for small-scale farmers, promoting long-term resilience both for their families and their local economies.

The Victory Against Malnutrition Project (ViM) was established to is reduce food insecurity by increasing and diversifying agricultural and livestock production, improving farmers’ incomes and household health and nutrition.

Over the past two years, ACDI/VOCA’s CDP program staff have worked with members of Sebehill Cooperative to increase their ability to apply good agricultural practices, manage their finances, plan for the future of their businesses, and manage their cooperative effectively.

Complex flows of capital and credit reach the most remote parts of the continent to pre-finance the extraction and sale of conflict minerals. Few recognize the importance of property rights in these flourishing economies.

USAID is helping the Government of Tanzania to improve communities’ understanding of land rights, support village land use planning, and clarify, document and certify property rights.

Explore findings from two studies that look at social capital within maize and dairy cooperatives in Rwanda.

By helping dairy cooperatives add a health cooperative product, with support from USAID’s Cooperative Development Program (CDP), HealthPartners were able to identify a single solution that addressed challenges in rural Uganda.

In today’s sub-Saharan Africa investment needs framework, it’s likely that opportunity gaps will affect performance for in-demand areas that local livelihoods depend on.

Explore findings from research on why some 66% of farmers in malt barley cooperatives in parts of Ethiopia were side-selling.

This blog outlines three innovative strategies the Feed the Future Mozambique Inova Activity used to establish a culture of learning within the project team and between the project and its partners to promote the internalization of market systems principles.

The development-focused investment model that is evolving in South Africa reflects a new model that combines both community cooperative and business partner by means of joint ventures. Read on to learn how this model takes a business approach to development that attracts private investment.

Youth savings groups promote positive asset building and introduces girls, boys, young women and men to the elements of personal finance, entrepreneurship, and life skills. 

Agriculture is the main source of income for much of Kenya's population, yet, many smallholder farmers lack access to financial systems. WOCCU developed a toolkit to support farmers' financial needs in Guatemala, Mexico, and Kenya.

In this Q&A, USAID's LandLinks interviews Jeff King of Hershey's and Olga Gormalova of ECOM Agroindustrial and explores private sector perspectives on responsible land-based investment.

Read up on emerging evidence on programming for a youth-inclusive economic transformation in rural and peri-urban areas to support youth employment and livelihoods, including entry into work.

In Liberia, a new mobile money provider has been onboarded to a mobile salary payment project, opening up the market to healthy competition.

Learn how sequencing interventions and a defined exit strategy can create a sustainable pathway to increase household resilience.

Nutrition interventions alone cannot end malnutrition. Agricultural development programs need to embed nutrition-sensitive interventions into their planning and implementation.

Learn more about the importance of strengthening input market systems in the lead up to the 2017 SEEP Annual Conference.

Digital services — with their geographic reach, ease of use, and transparency — are driving financial inclusion and alleviating poverty. But are rural women being left behind?

Explore three ways mobile money adoption can be improved.

Learn how mobile technology is revolutionizing financial diaries data collection.

Learn how system mapping can reveal connections between interventions and pathways for synergy in market facilitation practices.

Check out this post-event Q&A with presenters from June's Microlinks webinar, Supporting Resilient Livelihoods in Challenging Environments.

Understanding how markets shape and are shaped by the broader system in which they are embedded is critical for making them work better for food-insecure families and poor farmers.