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Including Wage Labor in Value Chain Analyses: A Guide
Overview Labor is both an input to the value chain and a source of income for individuals, making it doubly …
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LEO Report No. 46: Youth Engagement in Agricultural Value Chains across Feed the Future
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As global youth populations and unemployment swell to unprecedented levels, it is comforting to imagine the development of …
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Wage Labor for Food Security in Southern Karamoja, Uganda
The Resiliency through Wealth, Agriculture, and Nutrition in Karamoja project (RWANU) aims to reduce food insecurity among vulnerable people in …
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LEO Summary of Activities
Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) was a three-year contract to support programming that fosters inclusive growth through markets. Building on USAID’s …
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LEO Report #31: Mozambique Agricultural Value Chain Analysis
USAID/Mozambique commissioned a value chain analysis (VCA) to prioritize and guide interventions within and across target value chains. The analysis …
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Cultivating Women’s Empowerment: Stories from Feed the Future 2011–2015
Women contribute significantly to agriculture and food security around the globe, and gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical to ensuring sustainable …
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LEO Report #30: East Timor Aquaculture Feasibility Study
The purpose of the feasibility study was to analyze the current status of the aquaculture sector (production and productivity); assess …
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LEO Report No. #19: Scaling Impact: Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Beneficial Access to Output Markets
Smallholder farmers constitute a majority of the working population in much of the developing world, and they tend to be …
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Serbia Competitiveness Assessment & Political Economy Analysis—Organizational Network Analysis: Leo Report #34
THIS REPORT This report was prepared in conjunction with the Competitiveness Assessment & Political Economy Analysis for USAID-Serbia, conducted from …
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EasyDry M500: The Portable Maize Dryer, Analysis of Commercialization Viability
This analysis reviews the economics of the EasyDry M500 in conjunction with market pricing and demand factors in order to …
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Serbia Competitiveness Assessment & Political Economy Analysis: LEO Report #29
OBJECTIVE This assessment seeks to identify the key factors constraining Serbia’s private MSME sector, and its ability to grow and …