New LEO Cultivating Women’s Empowerment in Feed the Future Projects Report Released
Two ACDI/VOCA Projects Highlighted in Staff-Authored Report Released at the start of Feed the Future Week, the “Cultivating Women’s Empowerment: …
Ghana ADVANCE Increases Project Effectiveness with Technology
Tablet-Based App Enhances Data Collection and Extension Services In northern Ghana, the USAID-funded ADVANCE project boosts maize, rice, and soybean …
Zambia PROFIT+ Partnership Increases Red Onion Production, Decreasing Imports
Program Provides Smallholder Farmers Inputs to Boost Yields Our USAID-funded Production, Finance, and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+) project has partnered …
Private-Sector Partnerships Boost Zambian Farmers’ Profits
PROFIT+ Participants Trade on Commodities Exchange, Benefit from Warehouse Receipt System ACDI/VOCA implements the USAID-funded Production, Finance, and Improved Technology …
Monitoring & Evaluation Staff Gather in Ghana for Learning Workshop
EVENT ENCOURAGES CROSS POLLINATION OF IDEAS AND HIGHLIGHTS VALUE OF M&E Thirty-five ACDI/VOCA Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) staffers from 14 …
Boosting Food Security and Enhancing Nutrition in Zambia
A quartet of projects and pilots are at work currently in Zambia, striving to boost food security and enhancing nutrition. …
PROFIT+ Partners with Zambian Commodity Exchange
The USAID Feed the Future Production, Finance, and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+) project in Zambia has partnered with the Zambian …
Feed the Future Helps World Feed Itself
Since 1990, the number of hungry people in the world has been cut in half. Since 2009, Feed the Future …
Zambia PROFIT+-Facilitated Savings Group Empowers Women Entrepreneurs
Agnes Mwale, a 65-year-old Ngoni tribal woman, retired early in 1983. After working at a rural clinic, she decided to …
2015: International Year of Soils
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), soil is responsible for 95 percent of our food production, and yet …
African Institutions Build Organizational Capacity with Help from AIIM-Assist
When USAID/East Africa announced the first Annual Program Statement (APS) under the African Institutions Innovation Mechanism (AIIM) initiative in 2012, …
