This USAID brief outlines key “evidence-based correlations” among gender equality, competitiveness, and empowerment that inform the GATE Project’s “Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook”: (1) Increasing asset equality between men and women improves growth in the agricultural sector; (2) Increasing gender equality in the labor market improves economic efficiency; and (3) Increasing opportunities for women improves equality and empowerment.
This USAID briefing note explains how USAID’s EG programs will play an important role on both demand and supply sides of the market to help link people and food and ensure food security for future generations.
A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the USAID Trade and Investment Training: Greater Programming for Impact in Bangkok, Thailand by Jeremy Schanck looking at food security.
To assess selected activities performed under USAID Kosovo's Strategic Objective 1.3, Establishment of an Economic Policy and Institutional Framework that Facilitates the Recovery and Expansion of the Private Sector Led-Economy.
The New Economic Opportunities (NEO) is designed to improve rural incomes; reduce poverty levels; improve food security; address critical, small-scale household and agricultural water constraints in targeted communities; enable targeted internally displaced persons (IDP) communities (old and new) to sustainably maintain their households; and assist communities distressed by natural or other disasters.
The New Economic Opportunities (NEO) is designed to improve rural incomes; reduce poverty levels; improve food security; address critical, small-scale household and agricultural water constraints in targeted communities; enable targeted internally displaced persons (IDP) communities (old and new) to sustainably maintain their households; and assist communities distressed by natural or other disasters.
USAID/Pakistan initiated an effort to design a food and agriculture project in response to this initiative. An initial concept paper was prepared. The present paper expands that initial step into a more detailed project description.
