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Postharvest Loss Event Promotes Action to Improve Food Security
February 28, 2013 | Global Food Security Highlights
Bringing together representatives from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, foreign diplomatic corps, and the U.S. Government, the postharvest event identified promising research, innovations and business practices that can help stem postharvest loss.
Field Story
Mobile Technology Transforming Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Fertilizer
February 28, 2013 | From the Field
In Malawi, Feed the Future is working with the Ministry of Agriculture to improve efficiency and accountability in the fertilizer value chain through innovative new mobile technology that tracks data on deliveries, inventories and sales in real time.
Field Story
Feed the Future Helps Cambodian Fish Farmers Achieve Better Harvests
February 28, 2013 | From the Field
In Cambodia, nearly one third of Feed the Future’s aquaculture clients are raising climbing perch. Those who have harvested their ponds are seeing an average sales increase of 75 percent and sizable improvements in family incomes.
Field Story
Improving Nutrition with Fortified Flour in Senegal
February 28, 2013 | From the Field
Feed the Future is working with community nutrition volunteers in Ndendory to train women’s groups how to create fortified flour, a product that can be extremely effective in reducing severe and chronic undernutrition, but which is expensive and difficult to find in rural parts of Senegal.
Field Story
New Warehouses Will Improve Grain Storage in Ghana
February 28, 2013 | From the Field
The new warehouses have attracted the investment of local farmers and aggregators, who are sharing the cost of construction by contributing labor and land.
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Research Findings on Maize Strengthen Case to End Export Bans in Tanzania
February 28, 2013 | Science & Technology in Agriculture
Based on the data set they analyzed, researchers found a much greater degree of dietary diversity in Tanzania than had been assumed by the government. For example, one finding that is significant at the national level shows important differences in diet between rural and urban populations and across income quintiles.
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New Molecular Technologies Improve Resilience of Banana Production in Africa
February 28, 2013 | Science & Technology in Agriculture
Transgenic crops contain genetic material from other types of organisms. In this case, field trials have shown that the addition of two sweet pepper genes may endow certain banana varieties with significant resistance to BBW.
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Feed the Future Builds Capacity of Haitian Ministry of Agriculture
February 28, 2013 | Science & Technology in Agriculture
During their visit, members of the delegation were trained to use a model that will help policymakers examine the impact of potential new agricultural policies on Haiti’s long-term national food security.
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Graduate Degree Training by U.S. Land Grant Universities Builds Scientific Expertise in Developing Countries
February 28, 2013 | Science & Technology in Agriculture
Of those who responded to the survey, 86 percent said they returned to their home countries after completing their graduate degree programs. Virtually all stated that their graduate program and dry grain pulse research gave them excellent preparation for their current careers, and 92 percent said their graduate program was relevant to their current employment.
Press Release
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah Visits Tanzania
February 20, 2013 | U.S. Embassy Tanzania
He attended a round table discussion with 11 private sector representatives from international and local companies that signed letters of intent to invest in the agriculture sector as part of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which was a result of the G8 meetings held in the United States in May 2012.
Blog
Meeting the President’s Challenge to End Extreme Poverty
February 15, 2013 | Blog
In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama laid out a challenge for our generation to eradicate the scourge of extreme poverty. We are advancing this critical agenda through Feed the Future, the President’s signature global hunger and food security initiative. Here, we examine how.
Blog
Open Call to Innovators: Apply to Present at G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture
February 15, 2013 | Office of Science & Technology Blog
In an exciting opportunity, the G-8 is inviting innovators to apply to present ideas that demonstrate how open data can be unleashed to increase food security at the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture on April 29-30, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
Blog
Flower Power: How Your Valentine’s Day Bouquet is Helping Fight Poverty
February 14, 2013 | Blog
The flower bouquet you bought (or are planning to buy) for your significant other today is doing more than you think. Besides showing your special Valentine that you care, flowers are also an important commodity that is changing the lives of Kenyan farmers and improving their food security.
Field Story
Insuring the Most Vulnerable Against a World of Risk
February 13, 2013 | USAID FrontLines
Better risk management requires interventions at the household, community and national levels. People, communities and governments need to be able to better assess the risk they face. They need to be able to access and use information that will allow them to better prepare for coming shocks.
Field Story
East Africa’s Dryland Herders Take Out a Policy for Survival
February 13, 2013 | USAID FrontLines
In 2008, USAID began supporting new programs to insure East African pastoralists against the loss of livestock in case of serious drought, thereby building the resilience of these vulnerable communities. A new product—index-based livestock insurance (IBLI)—is being developed and tested in the Marsabit district of northern Kenya and the adjacent Borana region of southern Ethiopia. In these areas, pastoralists are raising over 18 million cows, goats and sheep.

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