Female-Owned Apparel Factory Creates 70+ Jobs in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Nazirbek Toktonazarov had only graduated high school when he decided to leave his parents and move to Russia. Like thousands …
Resilience Learning Activity Facilitates Dialogue on Resilience in the Horn of Africa
For the last seven years, USAID/Kenya and East Africa has held annual resilience events that converge stakeholders in the resilience …
PhilCAFE and Coffee Mentors Train 1,000 Filipino Coffee Farmers
Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise (PhilCAFE), an activity funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by …
‘Champions of Change’ share COVID-19 safety and vaccine information in Northern Kenya’s Turkana County
Many communities in Northern Kenya are susceptible to environmental shocks and calamities, such as drought. Now, these communities face the …
A Food Systems Approach to Combat the Three Cs: Coronavirus, Climate Change, and Conflict
Authored by ACDI/VOCA CEO CJ Hall; published by USGLC, September 23, 2021
USAID Kenya, Local Government, and Media Join Training on How to Tell Development Stories
In September, two USAID-funded activities in Kenya–the Resilience Learning Activity and the USAID Nawiri program–collaborated with government officials in Isiolo …
Food Systems Series: ACDI/VOCA Builds Resilient Food Systems
Action Track #5: Build Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks, and Stress Increased Shocks Undermine Food Systems The frequency and intensity of …
Food Systems Series: Building Back Better: Nature-Based Food Systems
ACTION TRACK #3: BOOST NATURE-POSITIVE PRODUCTION A VICIOUS CIRCLE With more than a third of the world’s land surface and …
Food Systems Series: ACDI/VOCA Transforms Food Systems for Sustainability
ACTION TRACK #2: SHIFT TO SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS The Current Food System Is Unsustainable Food is a vital component of …
Food Systems Series: ACDI/VOCA Transforms Food Systems for Nutrition
Action Track #1: Ensure Access to Safe and Nutritious Food for All Background In 2020, roughly 10 percent of the …
Q&A with Leland Fellow Championing Food Security in Bangladesh
Jini Kades served as a 2019 to 2021 fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center’s Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship. She …
Food Systems Series: ACDI/VOCA’s Conceptualization of and Approach to Transforming Food Systems
The Importance of a Food Systems Approach The development community has recently recognized that we are not on track to …
