USAID Extends Innovation and Research Partnerships with University of Illinois
Gender Equity, Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Empowering women and girls is critical to achieving secure, sustainable and equitable global food systems. Feed the Future promotes evidence-based and data-driven approaches to advancing gender equity, equality and women’s empowerment. We challenge discriminatory gender norms, policies and practices. We intentionally engage with men and boys as partners to empower women and girls in their different roles on and off the farm.
How a Coffee Farmers Group Empowered One Guatemalan Woman to Lead
When she was a little girl, María Juan Tomas often helped her father with the family’s coffee farm in Guatemala. One day, she thought, she’d… Read more
Guatemala
How Locally Sourced Fish Powder Drives Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition in Zambia
In Zambia, Lake Kariba is at the heart of a thriving fishing community, yielding throngs of tiny nutrient-rich fish often caught by women. But in… Read more
Stories
Donors Announce Major Push to Generate Funding for “Data to End Hunger” for 500 Million Smallholder Farmers
We #EndHunger by Expanding Opportunities For Farmers
USAID Partners With U.S. Universities To Fight Global Hunger
We #EndHunger by Scaling Innovation for Sustainable Progress
We #EndHunger by Empowering Communities to Improve Nutrition
USAID Assistant to the Administrator Beth Dunford Travels to Minnesota
USAID extends innovation and research partnerships with Kansas State University
Feed the Future Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Toolbox
A Farmer in Mozambique Faces an Unfamiliar Pest
Communities Rise Above Hunger and Poverty in Unlikely Areas of the World
Women Helping Women: A Community Joins Hands to Overcome Hardship in Kenya
