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This study is one of three regional assessments carried out in East, Southern, and West Africa regions to identify key SPS-related constraints to trade within priority Feed the Future value chains.

These case studies dig deeper into Feed the Future results reporting and identify, describe, and analyze strong case studies of FTF value chain programming significantly contributing to systemic change.

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.

These case studies outline a theoretical framework for the link between policy change and private sector investment, summarize recent evidence for this link and articulate the related measurement challenges.

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 overall assessment, conducted under a Political Economy Analysis (PEA) framework, set out to identify the major factors influencing Serbia’s private sector’s ability to grow, export and compete in EU and global markets.

This assessment seeks to identify the key factors constraining Serbia’s private MSME sector, and its ability to grow and compete, particularly in EU markets and against the companies and products of EU member states.

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.

Check out 4 case studies on linking push and pull strategies.