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Donors and practitioners working in value chain and market development for the benefit of the poor have made significant progress in developing a better contextual and conceptual understanding of the complex and dynamic nature of market systems and their enabling environment contexts.

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.

The Feed the Future NAFAKA II: Cereals Market System Development project, funded by USAID and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, developed a strategy to boost agricultural growth in Tanzania’s staple crops by helping individuals form producer organizations.

Growing anti-globalization sentiments and moves toward protectionism threaten to undermine the substantial benefits of global trade — particularly for food systems and nutrition — while doing nothing to address the problems associated with it.

Food safety remains essential to everyone, and blockchain alleviates some of the dangers to the food safety supply chain.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

This post examines difficulties in measuring inequalities and differences in women's participation in the labor market as well as ways forward in the field.

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 how private sector-led technical and entrepreneurial trainings are playing an important role in boosting women's economic empowerment in Bangladesh.

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

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?

Companies are increasingly playing an important role in addressing women’s economic empowerment in their supply chains.

Economic versus non-economic empowerment: is there a false dichotomy? This post goes back to earlier conceptualizations of women’s empowerment and traces how the idea of economic empowerment emerged out of them.

Read up on approaches to financial inclusion for women facing intimate partner violence.

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

Read up on why the population explosion is one of the key reasons why we have to look beyond just farming as the primary pathway out of poverty for today and tomorrow’s youth.

Explore how reframing market systems as enabling environments with pockets of momentum, rather than a series of snapshot problems, can boost market systems change efforts.

In this Q&A with Chemonics' Christy Sisko, learn how the revenue capital approach is providing critical financing opportunities for SMEs at important growth stages.

In the most recent episode of the USAID Learning Labs podcast, we learn about a shift in monitoring and evaluation methods incorporating learning into resilience project design in Somalia.