For the last couple of years, USAID has been supporting pomegranate farmers and processors with technical assistance and training. Read more >>
Tag archives for Agriculture
Video of the Week: A New Kind of Development
With JP Morgan and the Gates, Gatsby, and Rockefeller Foundations, USAID delivers much needed growth capital to boost the productivity and profitability of Africa’s undercapitalized agriculture sector. Read more >>
Video of the Week: Reaching Farmers Where it is Needed Most
Video of the Week: A video put together by the FEPROMAS team, a Senegalese farming federation, for USAID’s Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies project. Read more >>
Bangladeshi Farmers Reap Rewards from New Agricultural Techniques
From the Field: Farmer Cooperatives in Mozambique
Pounds of Prevention – Focus on Malawi
“Pounds of Prevention” is a series of short articles that illustrate how disaster risk reduction works and why it is important. Take a behind-the-scenes look at aid work in action, long before the disaster occurs. How is that possible? Read on! Today’s installment, Pounds of Prevention – Focus on Malawi highlights our work in the southern parts [...]
Video of the Week: Turning the Tide on Global Hunger
Got Milk? 300,000 Kenyan Dairy Farmers Do
As a Dairy Value Chain Coordinator, I help Kenyan farmers apply innovative ideas and technologies to increase milk production by changing the way they manage their dairy cows. I’m able to do this through the USAID-supported Kenya Dairy Sector Competitiveness Program, which aims to increase the quantity and quality of milk produced by smallholder farmers, [...]
Video of the Week: Bee Keeping in Pakistan
Afghanistan’s Banner Year for Agriculture (and how to get more of them)
The 2012 wheat harvest in Afghanistan is shaping up to be one of the best in the last 35 years, according to a new report by the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture. Read more >>