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MARCH 2024
Celebrating Women in Agrifood Systems
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), if the gender gap in farm productivity and the wage gap in agricultural employment were closed, the world’s gross domestic product would rise by almost $1 trillion, and 45 million fewer people would be food insecure. To solve the greatest challenges of our time, we have to not only reach women, we need to ensure they benefit from interventions that are targeted toward their needs.
Investing in women is one of the biggest opportunities to transform agriculture. Women make up nearly half the agricultural workforce in low-income countries, but lag behind men in access to land, inputs, services, finance and digital technology. Feed the Future is dedicated to making sure that agrifood systems are sustainable, resilient and work for everyone. Millions of women are ready, willing and capable of ending hunger — if only we dismantle the barriers preventing them.
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 A Women Farmers’ Cooperative on a Mission to Decrease Hunger in Nigeria
Led by Rabi Attah Habibu, members of the Likoro Women Farmers’ Cooperative grow maize, soybeans and rice to feed their own families and sell to others by leveraging sustainable farming methods and technology resources.
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 Women Researchers Focus on Indigenous Crops to Boost Food Security – And Other Women’s Livelihoods
In East and West Africa, four women scientists are responding to a call from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture for locally led research that addresses malnutrition and food insecurity.
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 Lenca Women of Honduras Use Grant to Help Their Community Thrive
Through a grant from the Inter-American Foundation, a Feed the Future partner, the Lenca women of the Asociación de Mujeres Intibucanas Renovadas (AMIR) have improved agricultural production and farmer incomes in their area, resulting in better food security and reduced malnutrition.
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10 Ways USAID is Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment
From tackling the urgent challenges women face in food and water systems to closing the gender digital divide to supporting women political and civil leaders, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is making key investments to advance gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment globally.
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USAID Names Patrick Webb New Chief Nutritionist
Patrick Webb is USAID’s new Agency-wide Chief Nutritionist, who is a top expert on nutrition policy and analysis. He will elevate the use of evidence across USAID’s operations and programs, and strengthen USAID’s efforts to address nutrition that affect our global programming.
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Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
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