USAID Project in Serbia Expands New Revolving Fund Model to Benefit SMEs

In Serbia, the Big Small Business Project (Projekat Velika Mala Privreda) operates on the premise that with the right support …

300 Filipino Youth Form 4H Club with USDA And Local Support

In Tagbina, a town located in the Philippines’s Surigao del Sur, 300 young coffee farmers and students organized themselves as …

Q&A with Program Leader in the Philippines on Transforming Cooperatives into Agri-Businesses

Alfred Allaga is country director of the Cooperative Development Program (CDP) in the Philippines, funded by USAID and led by …

Poultry Farmer Scales Up Business and Overcomes Challenges of Living in Remote Northern Kenya

Sora Abayo, a farmer from Moyale Town in Kenya’s Marsabit County, began keeping chickens in 2007 as a source of …

USAID Laos Microenterprise Stimulates Systemic Changes in Maize Sector Through Access to Loans

In the Xiengkhouang Province, maize is the main cash crop in three of the seven districts, due to high demand …

Boosting Tea Profits for Ethnic Farmers in Myanmar

Shwin Chang Lone Co., Ltd. (SCL) has been in the tea business for over 30 years. In 2001, they started …

41 Philippine Co-Ops Team Up with USAID’s Cooperative Development Program

This post is authored by Felipe Cook, a Leland Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center working with ACDI/VOCA. On September …

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Video About Plan T, the Social Transformation Initiative Empowering Colombian Youth

Plan T, a social transformation initiative implemented by the Presidential Office for Youth (DAPRE), Colombia Joven, and USAID and ACDI/VOCA’s …

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A Look at USAID’s Indigenous Peoples & Afro-Colombian Empowerment Activity

Ethnic inclusion directly impacts Colombia’s sustainable development. Studies have shown that countries can increase their GDP by US$2.1 trillion every …

Sergio Rivas Named President of Tanager

PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2022 — Sergio Rivas was appointed to the role of President of Tanager on …

USAID and Honduran Government Obtain 500 Temporary Jobs for Honduran Agricultural Workers in Spain

Spanish authorities recently notified Honduras’s Secretaria de Trabajo y Seguridad Social of a request for 500 agricultural workers from Honduras to …

How a Women’s Cooperative is Leading the Way for Specialty Coffee in the Philippines

The foothills of Mount Apo are home to the Philippines’s growing specialty coffee industry. Specialty coffee is at the heart …