Caught on Camera: Feed the Future in Action
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
On World Food Day, U.N. Highlights “The World’s Greatest Solvable Problem”
Meet the Experts: New Fellow Helps Feedthe Future Apply Lessons Learned in Scaling Health Care Innovations to Agriculture
Meeting the President: How the United States is Helping Women Farmers in Senegal
Back to School for Scholars of the Borlaug Higher Education Agricultural Research and Development Program
Feed the Future Invests in Tanzanian Students to Transform Agriculture Sector
With Support from University Partners, Technology Unlocks Commercial Potential of Agriculture in Senegal
Feed the Future Invests in Next Generation of African Nutrition Researchers
UC Davis Provides Innovative Model for Students in International Agricultural Research
Virginia Tech Teams Up with U.S. Government and International Researchers to Fight Global Crop Pest
University of Georgia Researchers Bring Cutting-Edge Peanut Processing Technology to Africa
Celebrating Thirty Years of Collaborative Research on Grains
