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ACDI/VOCA Bangladesh Market Vegetable Vendor

Balancing the Systems: Making Food and Market Systems Work for Nutrition

If you work in international development, you have probably heard a lot about food systems lately. The buzz about food …

ACDI/VOCA's AVVoices blog data digest series

Data 101 Part 2: Quality

If you missed the first post in the Data Digest series, I recommend you start here, with the beginning of …

ACDI/VOCA AV Voices blog post

Data 101 Part 1: Management

Data management can be tough, especially for those who are less numbers-oriented. I’ve been working with data for 15 years, …

ACDI/VOCA co-op member learning about health soil

Co-ops’ Commitment to People and Communities

MAVUNO Farmers Cooperative members learn about soil health When you think of a cooperative, or a co-owned enterprise run by …

ACDI/VOCA Sierra Leone budgeting for nutritious future with cash transfers

Budgeting for an Equitable, Nutritious Future

When I was a child, before the advent of Quicken or finance software, my dad would pull out the handwritten …

Beach near ACDI/VOCA MERL learning event in Tanzania

Put Your Feet (Not Your Head) in the Sand

I sat in a beach chair at dawn, watching the sun rise over the Indian Ocean. Our organization was holding …

Celebrating Small Wins Toward Reconciliation in Colombia

Earlier this year, on June 27, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) turned in 7,000 firearms to the United …

ACDI/VOCA Burkina Faso trees

Planting Trees: An Investment in the Environment Improves Food Security and Nutrition

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, I am admittedly a bit of a tree hugger. …

ACDI/VOCA Sierra Leone Snap+ measuring child for development

Building Resilience During Humanitarian Crises

At Inside NGO’s recent Food Aid Roundtable, Matthew Nims, acting director of Food for Peace (FFP), spoke about the future …

ACDI/VOCA Uganda USAID-funded RWANU youth participant in agricultural field

Challenging Our Assumptions on How Best to Engage Youth

In 2016, I visited northern Uganda to assess the impact on youth of the Resiliency through Wealth, Agriculture, and Nutrition …

ACDI/VOCA volunteer Dr. Hameed

Growing Mushrooms in Ghana

Over the last two years, I traveled to the towns of Kumasi, in southern Ghana, and Haasto, near the capital …

ACDI/VOCA FEST Colombia youth engaged in electrical training

Can Youth Employment Build Peace in Colombia?

Colombia’s Congress recently signed a peace agreement ending a 50-year conflict with guerillas and paramilitary groups that left 250,000 people …