Partner Highlights

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In addition to the Feed the Future Private Sector Engagement Hub, the U.S. Government supports private sector engagement and investment in Africa through three Africa regional trade hubs. We can provide an introduction for your business to the trade hubs, or you may contact them directly.

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation

Partnering for Innovation is a program that identifies and promotes technologies for investment and distribution across the developing world. Funded by the USAID as part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative, its goal is to put transformational inputs and other technologies into the hands of smallholder farmers to quickly and sustainably improve productivity and incomes.

The African Agricultural Capital Fund

In 2011, USAID, together with six partners, announced a first-of-its-kind effort to invest $25 million in the African Agricultural Capital Fund, which will deliver much needed growth capital to boost the productivity and profitability of Africa's undercapitalized agriculture sector.

Feed the Future Borlaug Higher Education Agricultural Research and Development Program

Honoring the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug, this is a major new effort to increase the number of agricultural scientists and strengthen scientific institutions in developing countries.

Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program Trellis Fund

Beginning this month, U.S. graduate students will travel to Feed the Future focus countries to work on projects led by in-country organizations to support smallholder farmers growing fruits and vegetables.

USAID and Swiss Re

This partnership combines the expertise of Swiss Re, a global leader in innovative risk management solutions, with two USAID efforts: the Global Climate Change Initiative, which aims in part to increase resilience to extreme climate events and accelerate the global transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy, and the Feed the Future initiative.

Africa Lead

The Africa Lead Agribusiness Leadership Program supports capacity building under the Feed the Future initiative and the African Union's Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme. A major component of Africa Lead is collaboration with U.S., international and African agribusinesses on an Agribusiness Leadership Program aimed at training the next generation of agribusiness professionals across the continent.

International Fertilizer Development Center

USAID partners with the International Fertilizer Development Center to address issues relating to food security, global hunger, environmental protection and self-sufficiency. The Virtual Fertilizer Research Center, a global research initiative by IFDC, will ensure long-term sustainability of critical programs through research on new fertilizer products and technology commercialization of efficient, environmentally sound fertilizers.

Enabling Agricultural Trade (EAT)

The Enabling Agricultural Trade project supports legal and institutional reform through agricultural policy analysis, implementation support for USAID, and practical guidance on how policies and governments can enable agribusiness. EAT offers a suite of targeted and customizable analytical tools and implementation support to identify, diagnose and reform agribusiness enabling environment constraints that hinder start up and growth across the sector.

Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (I4)

This initiative supports partnerships between academic researchers and the private sector to develop and utilize index insurance as a tool to enhance risk management, access to finance, and technology adoption among smallholder agricultural producers in developing countries. The initiative currently has seven pilot activities addressing risk and index insurance in Peru, Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Guatemala.

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