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NOVEMBER 2022
Accelerating innovation and technology to #EndHunger
We need to accelerate and dramatically expand our efforts to feed a world that’s faced with more devastating climate shocks, rising food prices and protracted conflict. Feed the Future is answering that call in many ways, including by spurring research and innovation. Through our partnerships with American universities, local research institutions, private sector and smallholder farmers, we’re developing climate-smart practices for communities to produce safer and more nutritious food, more efficiently. We’re scaling these practices so that women, youth and marginalized communities have the tools they need to feed themselves and generations to come.
This November at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP27), President Biden galvanized momentum to support vulnerable countries in building resilience to climate impacts – underscoring the PREPARE Action Plan to help more than half a billion people adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change and advancing the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate to support climate smart food systems innovation. This builds on the launch of the new U.S. Government Global Food Security Research Strategy, announced by Feed the Future Global Coordinator and USAID Administrator Samantha Power at this year’s World Food Prize in October.
Our experience shows that growth in the agricultural sector is at least twice as effective in reducing poverty than growth in other sectors. By investing in agricultural productivity, food safety and nutrition, our stories this month demonstrate how we’re redefining what's possible.
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 Building the first nutritional database for fish in Cambodia
Fish is a staple food in Cambodia, but shifting fish populations across local bodies of water continue to contribute to food insecurity in communities. Chakyra Chum, a researcher with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish, is taking action to solve this problem.
 Forward-thinking inventors in Africa compete in food safety challenge
Feed the Future launched a creative solution to prevent unsafe food – the EatSafe Innovation Challenge, a global competition mobilizing inventors to pitch food safety technologies for the chance to win $10,000 to scale their technologies.
 Harnessing gender-inclusive research to improve cowpea crops in Africa
By bettering understanding the needs and wants of local people, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement is developing new cowpea varieties that are sensitive to farmers’ lived experiences.
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Partnering with the private sector to boost fertilizer access in Ghana
Smallholder farmers in West Africa are the backbone of African food production and they have been hit hard by fertilizer shortages this year. The U.S. Agency for International Development is partnering with Yara International and local organizations to meet farmers’ growing needs.
Unlocking opportunities in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Nobukhosi Ndlovu was unsure how much it would affect her company, Nutrie Foods, in Zimbabwe. With support from the U.S. African Development Foundation, she accessed critical finance to break new ground and bring healthy foods to her community.
New online platform connects grassroots groups with community solutions
The Inter-American Foundation launched RedColaborar, a peer-to-peer learning platform, to bolster grassroots organizations’ capacity to share best practices and lessons learned on sustainable agriculture, youth development and more.
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Catch the latest episode of the USAID Food Loss and Waste Podcast
The cold chain – all of the technologies, processes, and people it takes to manage the temperature of perishable products – is vital to preventing food loss and waste. What happens when the cold chain breaks and how can we invest in making it stronger?
Call for nominations: BIFAD Awards for Scientific Excellence
Know a researcher or team from a Feed the Future Innovation Lab advancing significant achievements in the fight to end hunger, poverty and malnutrition? Nominate them for the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development’s annual awards by January 23, 2023.
Request for proposals to tackle threats to crops in a climate-changed world
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops is accepting proposals for research projects to address critical issues to key food security crops like roots, tubers, bananas, cereals and more. Apply by December 14, 2022.
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Photo Credit: Haley Ahlers
Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
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