Ethiopia FEED II Boosts Rural Households’ Resilience to El Niño-Induced Drought

A flash of hope shines amidst the devastating drought and looming food shortages currently afoot in Ethiopia: ACDI/VOCA’s Feed Enhancement …

Assembly, Operation and Maintenance of the Portable Shallow-Bed Batch Maize Dryer

The dryer is a portable, on-farm drying solution that enables smallholder farmers to dry their maize down post-harvest to the …

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Ethiopia AGP-AMDe Project Drives Agribusiness Success

The USAID-funded Feed the Future initiative in Ethiopia, Agricultural Growth Program-Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe), sustainably transitioned hundreds of its …

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ACDI/VOCA Celebrates 20 Years of Success in Ethiopia

ACDI/VOCA is proud to commemorate 20 years of successful work and collaboration in Ethiopia. Our activities have focused on cooperative …

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Smallholder Farmers’ Attitudes on Improved Storage Based on Exposure to New Technology and Information

This report explores the baseline attitudes and practices of smallholder farmers participating in AflaSTOP’s storage device testing. The data from …

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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 …

AflaSTOP Research Methodology

Definition of terms Detailed description of a systematic and practical experimental design including two rounds of testing Development and assessment …

Pilot Implementer ACDI/VOCA Celebrates Farmer-To-Farmer’s Beginnings

ACDI/VOCA’s connection with Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) goes back to 1985, the days when the latter was just a concept. In the …

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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 …

Farmer-to-farmer 30th Anniversary Celebration

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 Empowers Woman Kyrgyz Entrepreneur to Expand Food Product Business

The small town of Aravan, tucked into Kyrgyzstan's remote Fergana Valley, rarely sees visitors. Its 27,000 residents face bleak economic …

Comparative Dryer Performance Testing: Artisan vs. Formal Fabricators

Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) contracted Catapult Design to research, design and field test a new maize drying technology suitable for …