ACDI/VOCA Announces $38 million Agriculture and Food Systems Activity in Myanmar
ACDI/VOCA is pleased to announce a new five-year, $38 million activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development …
Mechanization Helps Outgrower Business Owner Support 750 Farmers in Ghana
Fusseini Abubakar cultivates maize, rice, soybean, groundnut, and cowpea on his farm in the Karaga District of Ghana’s Northern Region. …
Georgian Cheesemaker Expands His Business with Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer Assistance
Entrepreneur Gocha Gagashvili started his milk collecting and cheese production business in 2008 in the small village of Kurdgelauri in …
Kenyan Youth Boost Self-Reliance through Job Skills Training Provided by Feed the Future Activity
Youth in Northern Kenya face a variety of challenges, including a lack of skills, poverty, and unemployment. After completing his …
Female Sunflower Farmer Increases Earnings Thanks to New Market Linkages
Lipika Mondol, 36, lives in Dacope, a small upazila, or subdistrict, in the Khulna Division of southern Bangladesh. Her family …
What Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Can Do for International Development
Last week, Facebook announced the launch of a new cryptocurrency, Libra. Libra will be managed by a consortium of firms known as the Libra Association and will fully …
Do Behavior Change & Market Systems Development Belong Together? Colleagues Sound Off on Tensions & Synergies
In April, a number of ACDI/VOCA staff members had the great pleasure of participating in the 2019 Market System Symposium …
What Adaptive Management Means to Me—in Market Systems & Beyond
Q&A with Sergio E. Rivas (right), chief of party of the USAID Transforming Market Systems activity in Honduras Q: Tell …
Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity: Expanding and Diversifying Economic Opportunities
This Landscape Assessment and Analysis: Capital Supply and Demand in Northern Kenya was originally published in November 2018.
Helping Women Forge Their Own Paths Out of Extreme Poverty in Kenya
In traditionally patriarchal societies like those in Northern Kenya, women continue to face entrenched gender biases and inequalities that limit …
Integrating the 5Rs Framework into the Transforming Market System (TMS) Activity Design, Implementation and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in Honduras
This publication was originally published by USAID Learning Lab. It was produced in collaboration with Dexis Consulting Group and USAID/Honduras. This case story …
