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MARCH 2023
Boosting Fertilizer Efficiency to Help Farmers Stay Productive Today and Tomorrow
With Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine exacerbating global food, fuel and fertilizer prices around the world, Feed the Future is working with smallholder farmers to maximize resource use and efficiency.
The global fertilizer shortage is particularly concerning as it threatens the ability of smallholder farmers – the backbone of food security – to remain productive. That’s why Feed the Future has made fertilizer efficiency one of its top response priorities. When fertilizer prices spike, farmers grow less food and the pain is felt beyond the field – households earn less, working opportunities diminish and access to healthy diets are cut. And while fertilizer prices are decreasing, they remain high and contribute to poverty, hunger and reduced diet quality in Feed the Future partner countries. Find out how Feed the Future is helping farmers stay productive during the crisis, strengthen their resilience to overcome future shocks, and contribute to building a stronger global food system.
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 Food Security in Lebanon Starts with Seeds, Seedlings and Compost for Smallholder Farmers
As the global food security crisis creates challenges for farmers, an agricultural program in Lebanon is distributing critical resources to help thousands of farmers and to prevent a widening humanitarian disaster.
Learn how
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 With High Global Fertilizer Prices, Farmers in Nigeria are Turning to Custom Blends
The fertilizer blends, combined with the training farmers receive on usage, plant spacing and agricultural management, help farmers boost their crop yields and use farming resources more efficiently.
Discover more
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GRASP Fellowship Now Accepting Applications
Do you know of a confident and capable African woman working in agriculture policy? The USAID-funded Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is now taking applications from female policy practitioners from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal for a year of training, mentoring and networking. The deadline is April 12.
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Can AI Inclusively Advance Agri-food Systems?
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we look at the world, including agriculture in low- and middle-income countries. An upcoming webinar will delve into the impacts of AI and automation in agriculture in these countries with a diverse set of voices, from agriculture technicians to technologists to AI ethicists and policy experts.
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Protecting Bangladesh’s “White Gold” as the Climate Changes
A U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded project in Bangladesh helps develop environmentally friendly prawn and shrimp farming approaches, sustainable aquaculture practices and provides training to help local farmers, traders and input suppliers succeed in the industry for the long run.
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Increasing Access to Clean Cooking in Kenya
Thanks to the U.S. African Development Foundation partner Charlot Magayi and her women-led company Mukuru Clean Stoves, more Kenyan households are transitioning to cleaner modern fuels and methods for improved air quality, safety and efficiency.
Q&A: Women’s Assets, Shocks and Lasting Empowerment
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience and International Food Policy Research Institute researcher Agnes Quisumbing discusses how shocks like extreme weather and COVID-19 can affect women and programs aimed at women’s empowerment.
A Conversation with Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO
VOA Africa caught up with the Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Alice P. Albright en route to Morocco to discuss the agency’s mission to combat poverty and corruption through economic growth and accountability and to learn about success stories from Mongolia, Indonesia, Kosovo and beyond.
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Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
Photo Credit: Rabik Upadhayay for USAID
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