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The “Domino Effect” of Disbursing a Single Microloan

Society Development Committee, or SDC, based in Faridpur, Bangladesh, is a microfinance partner of the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock and Nutrition Activity, funded by USAID and implemented by ACDI/VOCA. Through this partnership, thousands of people working in Bangladesh’s livestock sector have benefited from microfinance products.

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Women farmers in wheat demonstration plots

Filling the Gap between Seeds Research and Small-Scale Farmers

Author(s):

Beja Turner
CARE’s Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) model focuses on improving small-scale farmers’ productivity, resilience, and access to markets. FFBS is a hands-on, learning-by-doing approach through which groups of farmers meet regularly during the course of their value chain production cycle to learn about new agricultural techniques and to experiment these treatments on group-managed demonstration plots. Since 2014, FFBS has directly improved the lives of more than 2.5 million farmers and their families.
A woman and her three young boys sit together in Samburu, Kenya in January, 2020

Can Rural Development Programs Build Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Author(s):

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures national governments around the world are taking to contain it have created new challenges for families who were already vulnerable to a number of climate-related disaster risks. New research supported by USAID is learning whether investments in broadly based resilience helps families to withstand even this completely unexpected and global shock.
Man in market with produce.

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Nepal

Author(s):

Marketlinks Team
The USAID Center for Resilience commissioned the Overseas Development Institute, in conjunction with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), to conduct research into resilience and poverty escapes in Nepal and other Feed the Future focus countries.
Man with maize crop in Mali

Got (Price) Risk?

Even in a good year, when the weather cooperates and pests are held at bay, the world’s farmers face another threat: prices.