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U.S.-Australia-India Public-Private Partnership Uses New Crop Technologies to Help Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
May 22, 2013 | USAID
This new collaboration will leverage ACPFG’s unique gene technologies and considerable expertise in cereal stress tolerance and Vibha’s field evaluation and rice transformation capabilities to develop new rice and wheat varieties with enhanced tolerance to drought and salinity, allowing farmers more stable production in the face of sudden drought and evolving salt water intrusion.
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Announcing MCC’s KIN Journal
May 22, 2013 | MCC Poverty Reduction Blog
I am pleased to unveil MCC’s Knowledge and Innovation Network (KIN) Journal, a technical publication featuring lessons, innovations, ideas, and thinking behind MCC’s poverty reduction investments around the world.
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USAID Releases its First Water and Development Strategy
May 21, 2013 | USAID
USAID’s Water and Development Strategy elevates the importance and visibility of water as a development priority within the Agency and highlights its importance in meeting the development imperatives to improve health and increase food security.
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USAID Administrator Shah Highlights U.S. Leadership in Food Security at Chicago Council Symposium
May 21, 2013 | USAID
With a focus on science, business and trade, Administrator Shah’s remarks highlighted U.S. Government progress and commitment fighting global hunger and poverty over the past several years.
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Advancing Food Security by Opening Markets
May 21, 2013 | USTR Blog
Global markets are an essential element of food security. Open markets for agricultural commodities, agricultural inputs, and food products help to efficiently move these goods from those who develop and produce them to those who need them, benefitting both producers and consumers.
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Ending Extreme Hunger and Poverty through Agriculture
May 20, 2013
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs held its annual Global Food Security Symposium on Tuesday, May 21. This year’s theme was “Capitalizing on the Power of Science, Trade, and Business to End Hunger and Poverty: A New Agenda for Food Security.”
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Scalable Agricultural Technologies Inventory
May 20, 2013 | Agrilinks Blog
Feed the Future is developing an inventory of "ready-to-scale" technologies. What is missing? Technical input is welcome from Agrilinks members.
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Harvest, Meet Market: How a New Fund Will Accelerate Agricultural Infrastructure in Africa
May 10, 2013 | USAID IMPACTblog
This week, with the AfDB and Government of Sweden, we launched first-of-its-kind effort to expand this progress and growth. The Agriculture Fast Track will encourage private sector investment in agricultural infrastructure projects to advance food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, it supports Africa’s agriculture transformation agenda.
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New Fund to Spur Investment in African Agriculture Infrastructure
May 9, 2013 | USAID
Announced at Grow Africa’s Investment Forum, the Agriculture Fast Track will spur agriculture infrastructure development in countries that are members of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, strengthening the links from farmers to markets to tables.
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USAID, Syngenta Collaborate to Improve Global Food Security
May 9, 2013 | USAID
This commitment advances agricultural development and food security goals set by developing country governments and supported by USAID through the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future, which is part of the U.S. contribution to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
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Feeding Africa's Future
May 8, 2013 | World Economic Forum Blog
Today, we have the tools and knowledge to end extreme poverty and hunger by working together to transform agriculture. This isn’t just a development hypothesis; it’s actually happening.
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Full Speed Ahead for Open Ag Data
May 6, 2013 | Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog
Last week, hundreds of innovators gathered at the World Bank IFC Center to brainstorm about how Open Data can be harnessed to help meet the challenge of sustainably feeding nine billion people by 2050.
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Open Data Opens Doors
May 2, 2013 | Blog
We are committed to making it possible for anyone to use the agricultural data and related analyses we fund. Releasing this data to the public is not only a responsible, transparent thing to do, but also the smart thing to do. Sharing data can lead to new innovations and insights.
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USAID Announces New Open Data and Technology Tools at G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture
April 30, 2013 | USAID
Yesterday, at the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced the release of exciting new datasets and tools that increase transparency and provide the fuel for innovators and decision makers to solve problems.
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Using Data to Change the World One Goat at a Time
April 30, 2013 | USDA Blog
USDA scientist Tad Sonstegard’s comparison of the World Food Programme’s “Hunger Map” to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s goat census statistics, reveals that 90 percent of all goats in the world are located in main ‘hunger zones’ of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. What’s the connection?

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