Feed the Future to Advance Research, Innovation
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
Remarks by USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah to the CGIAR Board of Directors
Kenya’s Cash Cows
Feed the Future Research Series Part II: Successful Agriculture through Crop Improvement
Feed the Future Research Series Part III: Climate Change and Agriculture
U. S. Government Opens Water User Association Office in Khatlon
USDA and USAID Collaborate to Improve Productivity of the Common Bean to Strengthen Global Food Security
Feed the Future Research Series Part I: Sustainable Food Security
A Passion for Changing Lives: Empowering Women with HIV/AIDS through Passion Fruit Farming
First-of-Its-Kind Research Addresses Gender Inequalities in Soybean Production
Testimony of Tjada McKenna, Feed the Future Deputy Coordinator for Development, before the Senate Foreign Relations International Development Subcommittee
Wheat Genome Sequenced in Breakthrough for Global Food Security
