From Housewife to Farmer: Egypt AMAL Project Trains Women
Zeinab Mohamed El-Adly is an ordinary woman from Upper Egypt who knew how to take care of her household, but …
A Family Affair: Father and Son Volunteer for Farmer-to-Farmer
In the past three years, I have completed 17 volunteer assignments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With 20 years …
Women Drive Change in Burkina Faso
In the Center-North Region of Burkina Faso, senior male household members make most of the family decisions about income, land, …
Introducing the Monitoring and Evaluation Bullet Chart
This edition of Data Digest is for the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) people out there, or monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), …
Sowing the Seeds of Resilience through Market Systems Development
Growing up on a small homestead farm left me with the desire to grow some of my own food because …
Data 101 Part 3: Taking Your Data to the Next Level
If you missed the first and second posts in the Data Digest series, I recommend you start there. In these …
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 …
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 …
ViM Project Introduces Rice to Fight Hunger in Burkina Faso
Fati Kiéma, a mother of six children, lives in the village of Goenega in Burkina Faso. Like many women in …
Boosting India’s Mint Supply with Mars Wrigley
Ana Bilik (left), of Agribusiness Systems International, and Kim Frankovich, of Mars Wrigley Confectionary, at the Shubh Mint launch event …
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’s Data Platform Streamlines Project Management
Data science is changing business around the world. Can it also transform development? ACDI/VOCA is developing a technology stack, or …
