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Feed the Future Activity in Tanzania Engages Youth in Fight Against Fall Armyworm

Despite Tanzanian youth making up most of the country’s labor force, they are burdened with unemployment and struggle to access microcredit. Many youth lack interest in agriculture because of its perceived instability. Despite their skills and knowledge, …

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Volunteering through Generations: How a Wisconsin Family Supports Armenian Farmers

After first hearing about the Farmer-to-Farmer Program in 1994, John Bobbe eagerly signed up to volunteer in Poland. The program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, mobilizes volunteers like John to provide technical assistan …

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Healthy, Happy Goats: A Volunteer’s Story from Ghana

Following an extremely rewarding career with the United States Agency for International Development, I decided to focus my time on providing hands-on assistance to smallholder farmers around the world. When I saw that ACDI/VOCA was recruiting volunteers wh …

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Growing Mushrooms in Ghana

Over the last two years, I traveled to the towns of Kumasi, in southern Ghana, and Haasto, near the capital of Accra, to help farmers cultivate mushrooms as an ACDI/VOCA volunteer for the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Program. Each time, I found myself imp …

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ACDI/VOCA Volunteer Helps Mango Farmers Improve Productivity

Mango growers in southern Ghana with ACDI/VOCA Volunteer David Ringuette (center), wearing gifts he received during their last session Ghana may be most famous for its gold, but, I recently visited Techiman in southern Ghana to help farmers produce a renew …

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Moving Energy from Pastures to Cattle to You—and Back

Everyone should be good at something, right? Everyone should have one skill they practice their whole lives that their bodies are made to do. As it turns out, we all have a skill like that: moving energy. This movement of energy from one place to another i …

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ACDI/VOCA Volunteer Evaluates Assets for Ghana Poultry Company

In April, I arrived home from Ghana after completing an ACDI/VOCA volunteer assignment with the USAID-funded West Africa Farmer-to-Farmer Program to help a company—once Ghana’s largest poultry grower and processor—measure their assets for growth. Or …

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Field Notes from Ghana: Looking Back

As my volunteering assignment came to an end, I couldn’t help but reflect on the entire experience. Working with members of the Techiman Maize Traders Association (TEMTA) was incredible. It allowed me to gain great insight into an industry that I had not …

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Composting Leads to Reduced Costs for Farmers in High-Demand Market

Two JFN members, who used organic, home-grown compost, showcase maize and soybeans from their harvests. Agriculture in northwestern Ghana has long been dominated by smallholder farmers who grow limited amounts of crops, primarily for home consumption. As …

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Agricultural Growth Program-Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe)

Agricultural Investments Key to Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction, Food Security Summary The Agricultural Growth Program-Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe) program in Ethiopia used a value chain approach to strengthen the agriculture sector, enhan …

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Cooperative Development Program (CDP)

BUILDING STRONG LINKS BETWEEN FARMER COOPERATIVES AND ECONOMIC MARKETS ACDI/VOCA’s cooperative roots reach back to 1963, when U.S. farmer cooperatives (co-ops) and farm credit banks founded the organization to assist co-ops in emerging economies. ACD …

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Armenia Farmer to Farmer Program (F2F)

Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Enterprises ACDI/VOCA implements the five-year Farmer-to-Farmer program in the Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia regions (F2F-ECCA). The project’s core countries include Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. AC …

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