How Next-Generation Crops Boost Climate Resilience and Nutrition in West Africa
Resilience
Feed the Future strengthens resilience to help families, communities and countries manage risk as well as adapt and respond to shocks and stresses without compromising their food security, nutrition, livelihoods and well-being. Feed the Future emphasizes support for marginalized and underrepresented groups like poor households, indigenous peoples, women, youth, persons with disabilities and those affected by migration and displacement. We invest in people and systems at all levels to strengthen resilience and propel transformative, sustainable change.
A Space-age Solution to Climate Resilience
In an instant, climate shocks like floods and storms can devastate communities, damaging farmland and infrastructure and wiping out years of hard-won progress. One of… Read more
Honduras
, Nepal
Harnessing Innovation in Ghana to Reduce Food Loss and Waste
Josephine Yeboah and her husband started a poultry farm with a clear vision: Be a leading producer of poultry eggs in Ghana. But initially, pests ravaged the corn feed for the Yeboahs’ animals, contributing to nearly 30 percent of lost food. In 2019, the Yeboahs began using ZeroFly® Hermetic Storage bags to store their feed. The bags were developed by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss (PHLIL) in collaboration with private sector partner Vestergaard. Read More
Ghana
Fostering Resilience and Sustainability in Honduras
Young farmer Thelma Flores did not believe she could make a living from farming after nearly a decade of drought in Honduras. But then Flores… Read more
Honduras
Integrated Rice-Fish Farming in Nigeria: A Resilient Approach in the Face of Climate Change
Hajia Fatima Aliu is one of 200 Nigerian farmers participating in a farmer-managed integrated rice-fish farming project to increase her yields and sustain crops through severe climate events. Read More
Nigeria
Stories
Saving Lives While Generating Free Renewable Energy in Bangladesh
Open for Business: How a Bangladeshi Business Created a Milk Market That Helps Dairy Farmers Weather the Pandemic
How Kenya is Spotting and Stopping Drought Early in Remote Areas
Going the Distance to Connect Mozambique’s Farmers
Three Spooky Diseases Feed the Future is Fighting
Announcing the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Scaling Up Insurance to Withstand Adversity in Kenya
CSISA Helps Farmers Beat the Heat By Planting Crops Early in Bangladesh
Women Overcome Drought with Crop Diversification
5 Ways Feed the Future is Working with Businesses to Build Community Resilience
Farmer Supplies Seeds And Quality Agronomy Advice
