Private-sector companies can find practical solutions to enter and grow in Africa’s agricultural market.
Women are disproportionately affected by extreme poverty, climate change and state fragility. More importantly, empowering women has manifold benefits for families, communities and economies.
More granular knowledge on women's involvement in agriculture on how their involvement in affected climate stresses is needed to support adaptation responses.
As March is Gender Equality month, we close the month by celebrating the resilience of female farmers globally who transcends odds to nurture the soil and feed the world.
The spread of pests is one of the largest threats, so what can farmers do to protect the health and safety of their crops?
Just when hope was rising for a steady economic recovery, Africa and the rest of the world were hit by a new COVID-19 variant at the end of 2021. Omicron, the new variant spread fast in many African countries, and although it has been described as a...
Agriculture contributes heavily to the GDP of many African countries and it employs more than half of the population across the continent in places like Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya Malawi and Zambia.
Enhancing women’s equitable access to agricultural resources and entrepreneurial benefits lies at the heart of the gender and inclusivity strategy of AGRA. Constituting nearly 50% of Africa’s agricultural labor force and one-third of small businesses...
Learn how Partnering for Innovation’s engagement with the private sector over the past decade has resulted in transformational impacts for private sector businesses and smallholder farmers alike.
This includes a series of resources aimed at capturing practical guidance and applied experience in market systems resilience (MSR), developed through the Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity.
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation conducted a survey via email in May 2020 of 44 private sector partners from 19 countries across four sectors: Improved Inputs and Production, Postharvest Processing and Storage, Information and Communications...
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation’s partnerships provide an on-the-ground look at the challenges and opportunities for commercializing new products and services for the smallholder market segment.