Key Findings from AflaSTOP’s ‘Off-Farm’ Controlled Tests in Eastern Kenya

This report summarizes the key findings and the initial detailed statistical output from AflaSTOP’s Off-Farm Storage Device Testing. This research, …

AflaSTOP Research Methodology

Definition of terms Detailed description of a systematic and practical experimental design including two rounds of testing Development and assessment …

ACIP Colombia playing for peace soccer

Soccer as Catalyst for Social Change for Youth in Colombia

In Timbiquí, Cauca, in Colombia’s Pacific region, the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Program (ACIP) and Fundación Tiempo de Juego harness soccer, …

Pilot Implementer ACDI/VOCA Celebrates Farmer-To-Farmer’s Beginnings

ACDI/VOCA’s connection with Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) goes back to 1985, the days when the latter was just a concept. In the …

AgFin Ghana ASI project; men with tractor

Agribusiness Systems International Awarded Grant to Expand Mobile Money Technology in Ghana

An affiliate of ACDI/VOCA, Agribusiness Systems International, is partnering with Tigo Cash, a mobile money provider, and OpenRevolution, an international …

Farmer-to-farmer 30th Anniversary Celebration

USAID Learning Event Marks Farmer-to-Farmer 30th Anniversary

Former and current Farmer-to-Farmer volunteers, implementing partners, and F2F’s “father,” former 13-term Nebraska Congressman Mr. Douglas Bereuter, gathered in Washington, …

ACDI/VOCA F2F Volunteer Empowers Woman Kyrgyz Entrepreneur to Expand Food Product Business

The small town of Aravan, tucked into Kyrgyzstan's remote Fergana Valley, rarely sees visitors. Its 27,000 residents face bleak economic …

Increasing Soil Fertility by Fighting Erosion in Senegal

At the beginning of each training that Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) volunteer Josephine Hegarty led for the farmers of Senegal’s G.I.E. Millet …

Comparative Dryer Performance Testing: Artisan vs. Formal Fabricators

Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) contracted Catapult Design to research, design and field test a new maize drying technology suitable for …

Farmer-to-farmer Ghana farmers

ACDI/VOCA F2F Volunteer Helps Ghana Farmers’ Group Build Capacity to Increase Incomes

In central Ghana’s Brong Ahafo region, the Busunya Cashew Farmers’ Group exemplifies how capacity development can positively impact farming communities. …

Colombia ACIP Project Employs Innovative Technologies to Teach Children about Race and Ethnicity

Because racial discrimination and negative perceptions about ethnicity are often deep-seated, Colombia’s Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Program (ACIP) shares positive messaging …

ACDI/VOCA F2F Volunteer Shares Orchard Management Best Practices in Tajikistan

Alisher Dehkan Farm in Tajikistan’s Khatlon Province has been producing apples, plums, bing cherry, pears, peaches, apricots, and almonds since …