Feed the Future works in the Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu regions.
Population of Mali (World Bank, 2020)
Annual GDP growth; agriculture accounts for 37.3 percent of added value (World Bank, 2019)
Percentage of population living in rural Mali (World Bank, 2019)
Percentage of stunted children under the age of 5 (2018, DHS)
Estimated percentage of people living in poverty in Mali (World Bank, 2019)
Annual agricultural sales generated by Malian farms and firms reached by Feed the Future in FY21
Children under 5 reached with nutrition help in FY21
Hectares tended with improved technologies or management practices with Feed the Future’s help in FY21
Producers using new technologies and practices with Feed the Future’s help in FY21
Feed the Future’s efforts in Mali focus on proactive risk reduction and management to help families recover quickly from climate-related or economic shocks. They are inclusive of all social and political groups, including women and girls, youth, and people with disabilities and other marginalized groups. Feed the Future integrates agriculture and nutrition investments to enhance cognitive and physical development, increase economic productivity, strengthen resilience and advance global development. For more information, please view the Nutrition Priority Countries.
Feed the Future partners with the private sector to promote sustainable practices and address systemic barriers that impede private sector growth.
Through these partnerships, private companies commit to sustainably improving the production and sale of agricultural products by unlocking access to financing, services, inputs and knowledge for producers in exchange for access to their products. In 2020, Feed the Future’s private sector engagement efforts leveraged over $900,000 million in private sector funds to help boost efforts in agricultural production and nutrition.
Feed the Future also facilitates public-private partnerships. For example, the World Agroforestry Center connected Malian producer groups comprising 25,000 women with Olvea, a private French company based in Burkina Faso.
Many rural families depend on agriculture for a living, so Feed the Future helps them increase their production through access to improved seeds, finance, and soil and water conservation techniques. By investing in the rice, millet, sorghum and livestock sectors, as well as vegetable and agroforestry crops, Feed the Future is improving economic opportunity, resilience and nutrition.
Feed the Future integrates agriculture and nutrition investments to enhance cognitive and physical development, increase economic productivity, strengthen resilience and advance global development. For more information, please view the Nutrition Priority Countries.
For those with limited access to land and labor, access to options for employment and income off the farm and in other sectors are essential for survival. Feed the Future’s investments in education, governance and health are there to help.
These results reflect information from the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. African Development Foundation, reported into Feed the Future’s central monitoring system for fiscal year 2020 (FY20). For more information on the indicators above, please view the Feed the Future Indicator Handbook. All dollar amounts are listed in U.S. dollars.
Feed the Future supports the following programs, partnerships and organizations in Mali
October 10, 2018
December 1, 2011
“I gave the land to establish the community garden because our wives were motivated to produce vegetables for their families, especially to improve the diets of our children. In the past, we had many malnourished children in our village. Nowadays our kids are healthy.”
Kadary Dembélé, Djalé village leader in the Sikasso region of Mali
