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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.

The specialty coffee trend highlights not only the U.S. consumers’ increased preference for higher quality coffee but also an interest in coffee farmers, as achieving higher quality starts with the producer. More than ever, consumers want to know their coffee’s bean-to-cup story.

The Water of Systems Change aims to clarify what it means to shift the conditions holding problems in place and provides an actionable model for those interested in creating systems change.

Economic development programs are increasingly shifting to a system change approach instead of direct delivery service.

We’ve seen how cryptocurrency can incentivize people to do incredible things, from fighting crime to trading surplus energy. But just when you thought you’d heard everything, along comes VeganCoin.

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.

Under the landmark peace agreement, the Government of Colombia has committed to addressing land issues by formalizing property rights across the country, organizing the national registry, and recovering lands that belong to the state.

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.

Tajikistan is on the cusp of achieving its vision of a fully-functional market that allows land-use rights to be bought and sold.

This activity was one of four winners of Chemonics’ recent Market Systems and Youth Enterprise Development Innovation Contest.

USAID’s Data Services team is pleased to announce the launch of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality (WE3) Dashboard.

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

Women Empowerment in South Punjab through Investment in Rural Economy (WEinSPIRE) was selected as one of the winners of Chemonics’ recent innovation contest.

Buyers, sellers, distributors, and grocery chains all want to know where the food is along its journey. You also probably want to know where your food has been before you serve it on your dinner table.

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.

At Chemonics, the Economic Growth and Trade Practice and the Education and Youth Practice joined forces to kick off 2018 with the launch of our Market Systems and Youth Enterprise Development Innovation Contest.

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.

What makes successful partnerships with agribusinesses? How can we best ensure that value and equity for farmer producers and small-scale service providers is an outcome in larger partnerships?

The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project is a buy-in mechanism where USAID Missions can rapidly secure top analysis and technical assistance to create an enabling environment for agricultural market systems.

Flooding is a constant threat in many parts of Bangladesh where people’s livelihoods depend on a good crop. Microinsurance was designed to help at-risk farmers to increase their resilience to this threat.

Network analysis is often cited as a useful tool for analyzing market systems, but can be difficult for large networks. In Bangladesh, the USAID-funded Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) activity tested an ego-net approach.

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.

With support from the Cooperative Development Program (CDP), Equal Exchange set out to answer if small farmers are really too poor to invest. In 2010, the CDP and Equal Exchange began working together with six farmer organizations in Latin America building member investment and savings programs.