USAID Resilience Workshop | Closing Remarks (Video)
Nutrition Integration into Feed The Future
The Feed the Future (FTF) Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Stakeholder Consultation Meeting, focused on nutrition intergration, featured a presentation by Laura Birx, USAID Bureau for Food Security; Jim Hazen, USAID Global Health Bureau; Roshelle Payes, USAID Global Health Bureau; and Lona Stoll, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service.
A Series on Integrating Climate Change & NRM into Feed the Future #2
This Feed the Future CSO Stakeholder Meeting, "Integrating Natural Resource Management and Climate Change to Achieve Feed the Future Objectives" was the second in a series of events on incorporating environment and climate change as key elements of food security and agriculture programs. Feed the Future leadership continued the discussion started at the first event and emphasized the importance of climate and environment considerations to achieving food security objectives.
A Consultation on the Food Security and Agriculture Grand Challenge for Development
USAID has begun to define Grand Challenges for Development to focus global attention on specific development outcomes based on transformational, scalable, and sustainable change.As part of this process USAID will outline a specific problem and facilitate innovative approaches that will encourage the broader community, a wide array of solvers, to focus attention on developing sustainable, effective solutions.
Update on Measuring the Impact of Feed the Future
The President’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (GHFSI), titled "Feed the Future (FTF),” has the overarching goal of sustainably reducing global poverty and hunger.
Risk Management: How Can Risk Transfer Help?
At previous events, we have discussed methods such as conservation agriculture and natural resources management that help smallholders to reduce risk. In addition to these, building savings can help farmers build resilience to risks.
FY11 Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) Guidance Review
Enabling a Private Sector-Led Seed Industry: Policy Perspectives
Few industries encounter such barriers and yet are as critical for food security as the seed sector.
Approaches to Building Food Security Policy Analysis Capacity in Developing Countries: IFPRI and MSU
Concerns about environmentally sustainable agriculture, reliable world markets, affordable food prices and effective safety nets for the poor have pushed food security policy back onto the global agenda. Managing these concerns through the combination of the right policies can contribute to the solution. Policy development, based on research and analysis, is a continuous process as conditions change over time.
Twitter Chat: Feed the Future Learning Agenda
Please join us for a discussion on the purpose and use of the Learning Agenda and to learn more about what Feed the Future has planned to contribute to the knowledge gaps around food security.
FY12 Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) Guidance Review
Please join us on Tuesday, September 25, at 8am EDT, for a webinar training session and review of the FY12 Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) guidance. The session is open to new and existing FTFMS users. We will explain the basics of using the system, highlight improvements to FTFMS since FY11, and discuss entering data for complex indicators. We will also discuss key indicator updates and reporting challenges.
Webinar on FTF's Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
This webinar session provided information on how to calculate the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its indicators. Emily Hogue of USAID and Hazel Malapit of IFPRI discussed the purpose of the Index for Feed the Future, how it is used as monitoring indicator and a diagnostic tool, and gave important information about resources to help with data collection and analysis. Online participants engaged with the presenters via the Adobe Connect chat function. You may watch a redording of the webinar by clicking on the link at right.
Policy Options to Enable Fertilizer Industry Growth
An efficient, dynamic fertilizer industry underpins a strong agricultural sector and a growing economy. Few industries are so vital to farm productivity and food security, yet are so frequently constrained by varying approval standards, unstable government policies, and volatile trade flows.
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Patchanan Owen | patchanan@gmail.com | The QED Group |
Maciej Chmielewski | maciej.chmie@gmail.com | The QED Group |
Lindsay Test2 | lindsay.levin+testreg2@gmail.com | QED |
Lindsay Levin | lindsay.levin@gmail.com | USAID KDMD Project |
Lindsay Levin | lindsay.levin@gmail.com | USAID KDMD Project |
Kevin | klowen@gmail.com | law firm |
Julie MacCartee | julie.maccartee@gmail.com | The QED Group |
Julie MacCartee | julie.maccartee@gmail.com | The QED Group |
Julie Mac | juliestudmac@gmail.com | Org |
Bethel Alemu | balemu@qedgroupllc.com | QED |
Bethel Alemu | balemu@qedgroupllc.com | QED |
William Fiebig | williamf469@gmail.com | Retired Farming Systems Agronomist |
Steven Kovach | skovach@usaid.gov | E3/AA |
NGIRUWONSANGA HUSSEIN | hussein@eagreconnect.com | Eagreconnect |
Mark Sieffert | marksieffert@gmail.com | USAID-Bureau For Food Security |
Lindsay Testing | lindsay.levin+testreg3@gmail.com | QED |
Lindsay Testing | lindsay.levin+testreg3@gmail.com | QED |
Lindsay R. Test | lindsay.levin+testreg2@gmail.com | QED |
Karelyn Cruz | kcruz@usaid.gov | USAID |
Edith McClintock | emcclintock@usaid.gov | USAID |
Bob Rabatsky | bob@fintrac.com | Fintrac |
Amy Diggs | DiggsAK@state.gov | U.S. Department of State |
Ajdin Hrbat | ajdin_hrbat@yahoo.com | Fulbright research scholar |
Adam Heltzer | aheltzer@louisberger.com | The Louis Berger Group |
Overview of FTF Target Setting for the Prevalence of Poverty in the Mission’s Zone of Influence
To view a recording of this training, please click on the "Webinar Recording" link to the right. The run time is approximately one hour.
Overview of FTF Target Setting for Stunting/Underweight Children in the Mission’s Zone of Influence
To view a recording of this training, please click on the "Webinar Recording" link to the right. The run time is approximately 40 minuters.