Cultivating Women’s Empowerment: Stories from Feed the Future 2011–2015
Women contribute significantly to agriculture and food security around the globe, and gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical to ensuring sustainable …
Ghana ADVANCE Increases Project Effectiveness with Technology
Tablet-Based App Enhances Data Collection and Extension Services In northern Ghana, the USAID-funded ADVANCE project boosts maize, rice, and soybean …
Woman Farmer Buys Tractor through Ghana ADVANCE II Grant Program
Project Empowers Women as It Connects Farmers with Markets, Equipment As part of its efforts to improve the competitiveness of …
Impact Investing Report Includes ACDI/VOCA Ethiopia Case Study
ACDI/VOCA AND OTHER INGOS PURSUE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MARKET-DRIVEN MEANS The INGO Impact Investing Network, of which ACDI/VOCA is an …
Monitoring & Evaluation Staff Gather in Ghana for Learning Workshop
EVENT ENCOURAGES CROSS POLLINATION OF IDEAS AND HIGHLIGHTS VALUE OF M&E Thirty-five ACDI/VOCA Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) staffers from 14 …
USAID ADVANCE Facilitates Farmers’ Access to Finance
The smallholder farmers who participate in the USAID ADVANCE project no longer have to struggle to find credit for their …
ADVANCE Boosts Yields and Smallholders’ Incomes through Agricultural Radio Programming
Through radio programming, USAID ADVANCE is introducing some 25,000 smallholder farmers to innovative technologies and agricultural best practices, including row …
USAID ADVANCE Scales Up Mobile Financial Services for Farmers
USAID ADVANCE is supporting the maize, rice, and soybean value chains in northern Ghana to achieve food security. As part …
Tech Company Grant Boosts Ghanaian Agricultural Radio Broadcasting
The USAID-funded Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement II (ADVANCE II) project works with radio stations to disseminate relevant and …
Agribusiness Systems International Awarded Grant to Expand Mobile Money Technology in Ghana
An affiliate of ACDI/VOCA, Agribusiness Systems International, is partnering with Tigo Cash, a mobile money provider, and OpenRevolution, an international …
USAID Learning Event Marks Farmer-to-Farmer 30th Anniversary
Former and current Farmer-to-Farmer volunteers, implementing partners, and F2F’s “father,” former 13-term Nebraska Congressman Mr. Douglas Bereuter, gathered in Washington, …
ACDI/VOCA F2F Volunteer Helps Ghana Farmers’ Group Build Capacity to Increase Incomes
In central Ghana’s Brong Ahafo region, the Busunya Cashew Farmers’ Group exemplifies how capacity development can positively impact farming communities. …
