Five Market Systems Strategies to Revive Food & Agricultural Systems During COVID-19
COVID-19 is challenging the world to adapt, and, in doing so, creating two distinct problems in our food and agricultural …
How Kenya Is Spotting and Stopping Drought in Remote Areas
Published by Feed the Future, April 27, 2020
Finding Resilience: How ACDI/VOCA Helps Communities Adapt to Shocks
When climate disasters, conflicts, and other crises occur, a community’s capacity to withstand the shocks and adapt to them is …
Women’s Group Boosts Incomes & Resilience in Kenya
In Kenya’s Northern Frontier, at the edge of Marsabit National Park, rests Karare town. Nondescript to passersby, Karare serves as …
Widow Rebounds from Adversity through Kenya LMS Support
Kuresha Bile, a mother and widowed farmer in central Kenya, has seen it all. In 2009, her life crumbled around …
Cash Transfers Help Ultra-Poor Women Become Entrepreneurs in Northern Kenya
Paulina Adapal Paen never thought she could be a businesswoman. Raising five children on her own, she was struggling just …
Kenyan Youth Boost Self-Reliance through Job Skills Training Provided by Feed the Future Activity
Youth in Northern Kenya face a variety of challenges, including a lack of skills, poverty, and unemployment. After completing his …
Keeping Girls in School in Northern Kenya
Dressed in her new uniform, Fardosa Boya, 12, walked toward the entrance of the school. It was the beginning of …
Helping Women Forge Their Own Paths Out of Extreme Poverty in Kenya
In traditionally patriarchal societies like those in Northern Kenya, women continue to face entrenched gender biases and inequalities that limit …
36 New Businesses Launched in Kenya’s Arid Lands
Living in northern Kenya’s Isiolo and Marsabit counties means facing frequent droughts and climate shocks and, for businesses, often facing …
Talking Resilience and Nutrition through Market Systems at SEEP Network Annual Conference
On October 2-4, the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network’s 2017 Annual Conference brought together over 425 leading practitioners, …
Women in Non-Production Roles in Agriculture: A Literature Review of Promising Practices
The USAID Feed the Future Initiative supports the development of agriculture as an engine of economic growth, food security, and …
