Resource Library

In this special seminar, presenters took an in-depth look at USAID's efforts in digital payments, with key insights and findings from USAID’s Payment Innovations activity in Zimbabwe.

Implemented by Save the Children between 2009 and 2012, STRIVE Mozambique aimed to strengthen household economic stability through participation in village savings and loan (VSL) groups and rotating shared labor schemes, and to examine the effects of participation in those activities on household food security and child nutrition.

"Mentoring and Belonging" was presented under the Gender track at the 2013 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference. Abigail Kaindu and Catherine Boyce from Camfed share how mentoring and coaching enhances young people’s economic participation.

CARE’s Pathways program is based on the conviction that women farmers possess enormous potential to contribute to long-term food security for their families and substantially impact nutritional outcomes in sustainable ways.

This briefing paper highlights how a variety of ICT applications can be utilized in outgrowing operations to improve efficiencies and improve benefit flows to rural farmers.

Grounded in an overview of CARE’s approach to resilience, this session features evidence and lessons learned from some of CARE’s most successful market engagement initiatives.

This profile discusses GeoTraceability, a private agribusiness technology company that leverages GPS mapping— integrated into a customized GIS—to help clients meet traceability demands in the marketplace.

This presentation by TechnoServe presents the organization's strategy for improving nutrition through its work with the private sector. Five strategies are outlined: nutritional reviews, food fortification, commercialization of nutritious food, crop diversification, and encouraging embedded nutritional services by value chain actors. The presentation briefly examples two examples of how this strategy could be applied.

Increasing producer revenues is key because they are the primary natural resource stakeholders.