The feed the future initiative began as an effort to combat the global food price spikes of 2007. Feed the future in malawi helps smallholder farmers improve their productivity and incomes. According to the national institute of food and agriculture, it is the u. Zoi of the feed the future program in cambodia in 2015. With this strategy, usaid aims to decrease chronic malnutrition, measured by stunting, by 20 percent through the u. Governments usgs feed the future initiative, guided by the global food security strategy gfss. Aidoaai1200031 task order aid621to1600005 contractor. Feed the future catalyzes and leverages investments from governments and private sector partners to strengthen markets, scale technologies, and drive sustainable, private sectorled economic growth for maximum impact. Led by usaid, the initiative brings partners together to address the root causes of hunger and poverty by boosting agricultureled growth, resilience and nutrition in countries with great need and opportunity for improvement. The authors views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the united states agency for international development or of the united states government.
It addresses the root causes of hunger and poverty in the developing world to improve global food security and nutrition. Scaling up climatesmart agro forestry technologies for improved market access, food and nutritional security in mali ended, comparable program anticipated in future, covered by aeg iee. Feed the future is the us governments global hunger and. View the summary chart of feed the future indicators for more information. The feed the future advancing womens empowerment awe program enhances gender equality and womens empowerment in agriculture programs by providing targeted technical assistance to missions, implementing partners, the bureau for food security, and other usaid operating units to increase womens participation, productivity, profit, and benefit in. Feed the future invests in research to develop and advance a pipeline of innovations, tools and approaches designed to sustainable reduce global poverty, hunger and malnutrition in the face of complex, dynamic challenges including emerging pests and diseases that affect farmers overseas and in america. Feed the future is americas initiative to combat global hunger. In africa, feed the future partner governments have outpaced their neighbors domestic investment in agriculture. The four partnerships babban gona, hello tractor, chifarms and niji foods will. This document outlines the feed the future s interagency learning agenda, an interagency effort primarily led by usaid and the millennium challenge corporation. Agency for international development usaid continues to promote agricultureled growth through the implementation of the u. The feed the future nigeria partnering for innovation program facilitates linkages between the u. Tom walker benedito cunguara cynthia donovan finalized version submitted to usaid mozambique on march 17, 2016 tom walker is an independent researcher. Access to domestic and regional markets remains limited by constraints like disorganized and inefficient horticulture market systems.
The toolkit is designed to serve as an ongoing resource for usaid staff engaged in performance management roles as they plan for and manage effective performance monitoring and evaluation over the course of the missions strategy. Feed the future mali cereal value chain project ended, comparable program anticipated in future, covered by aeg iee. The set of indicators described in this handbook are designed to measure progress against each result in the feed the future. Governments global hunger and food security initiative. The zoi is the pursat, battambang, kampong thom, and siem reap provinces. Feed the future nigeria livelihoods project boosts. Data sources will include feed the future focus country project and program data. These objectives can be achieved by policies and programmes that. A link to the webinar recording and a pdf of the powerpoint slides are available on this page under resources. Feed the future project design guide for youthinclusive.
Feed the future ethiopia country plan fact sheet april 2019 usaid. The feed the future nigeria agricultural policy project is a five year initiative funded by the nigeria mission of the united states agency for international development usaid, and implemented jointly by michigan state university msu and the international food policy research institute ifpri. Usaid multisectoral nutrition strategy 20142025 pdf, 1 mb government of the federal democratic republic of ethiopia national nutrition programme pdf, 1 mb agricultural production and childrens diets. West africa regional programmatic persuap ppersuap covering nine target countries with usaid west. Usaid and the private sector, united states agency for international. Smallholder horticulture farmers in tanzania face a number of challenges. How have feed the future interventions integrated nutrition into value chain. The authors of the report are george gray, laura kuhl and demese chanyalew. Feed the future advancing womens empowerment awe program. The purpose of the agenda is to learn about which interventions have the greatest impact in a given context. Feed the future innovation lab for collaborative research on assets and market access ama il. Development program investment plan, and private companies have signed letters of intent.
The feed the future rwanda hinga weze activity is a fiveyear usaid funded project 20172022 that aims to sustainably increase smallholder farmers income, improve the nutritional status of women and children, and increase the resilience of rwandas agricultural and food systems to a changing climate. Bfs coordinates these partners and leads implementation of the u. Usaid s bureau of food security will develop feed the future s ftf learning agenda, which includes key evaluation questions related to the ftf results framework. Performance evaluation report feed the future innovation. It is an edited version of a longer paper prepared by anita spring with kimberley swallow for the feed the future. Feed the future impact evaluation resilience in the sahel. About this report reports consolidation act of 2000 permits. The sampling design called for a twostage cluster sample. Performance management plan toolkit usaid learning lab.
Through the usaid led feed the future program the u. Evidence from rural ethiopia pdf, 1 mb usaid ethiopia. Thirtyeight percent of malawians live below the poverty line and stunting rates among children are one of the highest in africa. The feed the future indicator handbook presents the set of performance management indicators.
Government and nigerian agriculture businesses to improve access to technology for small holder farmers. Feed the future nigeria partnering for innovation usaid. At the core of our strategy to support ethiopias economic growth and transformation plan is the feed the future initiative in 2009, the u. Governments global foodsecurity strategy through the feed the future initiative. Government food security program evaluations at the request of the usaid. For the womens empowerment in agriculture index weai. Governments feed the future and global health initiatives, the office of food for peace development programs, resilience efforts, and other nutrition investments. Usaid and the arp team in particular has both short and long term research that can be broken down into themes and ultimately \.
Feed the future ethiopia external midterm performance evaluation report may 2015 this publication was produced at the request of the united states agency for international development. Preparing data for submission usaid development data. The feed the future indicator handbook presents the set of performance management indicators for phase two of the u. Usaid announces new program to combat food insecurity in. The program aims to boost agriculture productivity and to increase household incomes. It addresses the root causes of hunger and poverty in the developing world to. Governments global food security strategy gfss objectives, usaid missions and partners must work together to strengthen the underlying factors that foster competitive, inclusive agriculture markets, improve food security conditions, and build resilience. The feed the future indicator handbook pdf, 6 mb is a working document describing the indicators selected for monitoring and evaluation of the u. Abuja over the past five years, the feed the future nigeria livelihoods project helped pull some of the most vulnerable families in nigeria out of poverty by taking an integrated approach to improving agricultural production, income generation, nutrition, and sanitation, officials affirmed at a june 20 closing ceremony for the activity. Farm builds on the work of feed the future zimbabwecrop development, feed the future livestock development, and usaid s food for peace development food security activities, which will allow farm to start quickly. Feed the future global performance evaluation usaid. Gender integration in usaids agricultural research. Usaid and the private sector, united states agency for international development. Feed the future snapshot progress through 2017 usaid.
Agriculture development and value chain enhancement. See usaid s strategic goals and results in the program performance overview beginning on page 6. Created in the wake of the devastating 2007 and 2008. Feed the future kenya accelerated value chain development. Agency for international developments bureau for food security bfs, which leads the feed the future initiative in collaboration with 10 other u. This website was made possible through support provided by feed the future, the u. Thirtyeight percent of malawians live below the poverty line and stunting rates among children are one of the highest. The policy implementation parameters for the project design guidance are. Governments global hunger and food security initiative, through the u. Feed the future learning agenda usaid learning lab. Feed the future brings together a host of partners in pursuit of a common goal to end global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. Feed the future learning agenda evaluation synthesis report.
As the global coordinator of feed the future, i recently traveled to the. Resilience in the sahelenhanced rise project impact. Program officer gender advisor fl030102 feed the future. Governments global hunger and food security initiative, feed the future. Economic opportunities increased foreign assistance objective 4. These questions will be addressed through rigorous impact evaluations. A focused set of choices rob bertram, phd usaid bureau for food security. Prepared for the united states agency for international development, usaid grant number aidbfs10210 isbn. Recurring droughts afflict malawis agriculture sector, threatening the livelihoods of malawis smallholder farmers, who constitute 80 percent of malawis population. Government feed the future initiative is a comprehensive. The contents are the responsibility of the producing organization and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of usaid or the u. Agency for international development, under the terms of agreement no. Missions are expected to comply fully with the pd guidance for priority projects identified by the missions once they have in place an approved country development cooperation strategy cdcs or an approved feed the future ftf strategy for. Feed the future multiyear startegy for ethiopia usaid.
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