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USAID provides a series of knowledge products to help global mission staff better integrate agricultural finance into mission activity within the context of the U.S. Government's Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS).

Marketlinks, Agrilinks, and the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project hosted a joint webinar on Thursday, February 6, 2020, examining the enabling environment for agricultural market systems in fragile contexts.

This is the third post in a series exploring how a partnership facility can work as an interface between donor-funded programs and their private-sector partners, and how the partnerships that emerge can be an engine driving systemic change.

This report form ISF Advisors and the Mastercard Foundation's Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab summarizes the latest data on the size and scope of the global rural agricultural finance market, finding a significant gap between supply and demand of financial services.

On April 5, 2018, USAID LandLinks, Marketlinks, and Agrilinks hosted a presentation of the results from the Investor Survey on Land Rights.

Find resources here from October’s event on YouthSave, including a webinar recording, recap blog, video commentary, and slides from the event.

5 Capitals facilitates learning about the potential of value chain development (VCD) to strengthen rural livelihoods and improve business performance.

In an effort to identify appropriate interventions and policies for improving food security, this paper provides a synthesis of recent research into the behavior of producers and consumers of staple food crops in Eastern and Southern Africa.

On May 17, 2011, The U.S. Department of State, The United States Agency for International Development, United States Trade and Development Agency, and Migration Policy Institute convened to launch the International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA) at the Secretary's Global Diaspora Forum.

he Secretary's Global Diaspora Forum was a three-day event that took place in Washington DC and marked the launch of the International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA).

A value chain includes all the actors that participate in bringing a product or service from its conception to its end use in the market, as well as the extent and type of relationships between these actors. Value chain development involves strengthening these product-to-market systems. The objective is to increase productivity and trade, and, ultimately, economic returns for small producers and businesses.