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This report presents key activities, lessons learned, and accomplishments of the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project.

This report presents a framework that outlines a pathway for systemic change and presents a complementary set of indicator areas, or "domains," that signal systemic changes.

This report examines a LEO activity-led assessment and investment plan for an abattoir system in Guinea, which found the abattoir to be economically attractive for outside investment and a PPP tender.

This report aims to inform Feed the Future (FTF) efforts moving forward to more strategically and deliberately engage youth in market systems by providing insights from current FTF country programs. Commissioned by USAID’s Bureau for Food Security/Office of Country Strategy and Implementation, a research team with the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity scanned all 19 FTF countries and analyzed four FTF country programs in more depth through site visits to Guatemala, Liberia, Nepal, and Uganda.

This suite contains the LEO activity's research on evaluating measure indications of systemic change.

This review of literature reveals that there are many opportunities to increase women’s economic empowerment beyond interventions focused on production.

This report examines this issue through a review of market analyses and in-depth interviews with key staff from projects seeking to apply a market systems development approach.

The assessment includes analysis of the current status of the aquaculture sector; potential market linkages for Timorese aquaculture products; and the potential for domestic feed production.

This report documents and provides an initial analysis of initiatives in Feed the Future projects designed to address policy-related constraints to value chain competitiveness, and, in particular, increased private sector investment.

This report summarizes key findings from a review of selected literature on evaluating systems and systems change.