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Feed The Future

The USAID project is helping smallholder farmers increase productivity and improve post-harvest practices.

Feed the Future: Our New Development Model in Action

In 2009, President Barack Obama led the world in reinvesting in agricultural development to address growing global food insecurity.

Members of the Sidama Elto Farmers Cooperative Union deliver 120 metric tons of maize to WFP Purchase for Progress program.

Smallholder Farmers Strive to Support Relief Efforts in Ethiopia

A USAID-trained enumerator uses a tablet to collect information for a Feed the Future baseline survey.

More Data, Less Hunger?

Annociate Musabwamana, center, stands with two farmers she trained under Sell More For More.

Sell More, For More

Local mothers in Matam report that, since changing over to enriched flour mixes, the children have been demonstrably healthie

Enriching Nutrition in Senegal

Coumbayel Coulibaly displays the fruits of the harvest.

The Rice of Hope

Gulbahor Rajabova (left), chairwoman of a farm, successfully defended her land rights in court with help from Director of Legal

Laws of the Land Raise up Tajik Women Farmers

Vainess Phiri, right, and company load peanuts into the expeller.

Empowerment by Peanut: Zambian Women Boosted by Staple Crop

The COMACO It’s Wild! product range.

Guns, Honey and Rice

Thanks to the introduction of good agricultural practices, high-quality seedlings and contract farming, Selina Tsanga can pay fo

Farmers with a Head for Business—and Bananas—Form the Backbone of Zimbabwe Project

Michel Dorlean stands in front of his flower growers’ association’s greenhouses in Furcy.

Haiti's Greenhouse Revolution

USAID helps small-scale farmers and business people in Kenya acquire the skills, technology, loans, and market connections they

Podcast: Science to Feed the Future

Extra

Farmers have created an artificial stream of water for trout babies to fulfill their natural instincts of swimming upstream. The

Azerbaijan's Aquaculture Gets a Makeover

Today, Hamid Mikayilov is proud to be the owner of the Girkhbulag Trout Farm, located in one of the most spectacular and historically rich regions of Azerbaijan—Sheki City.

A USAID agronomist checks on the plants. “We applied the new magnetic water technology to plots of oregano and tarragon with the

Magnets Help Plants Grow