The Feed the Future (‘flourishing agriculture”) project is a four-year USAID-funded effort that began in 2015 with the primary objective of improving inclusive economic growth among vulnerable households through improved production, productivity, and marketing of select cereal crops. Feed the Future scales up techniques and technologies identified under its predecessor project with the goal of reaching more than 130,000 households (an estimated 45 percent of households in the Feed the Future zone of influence). The project works with farmers and other value chain actors such as women and children in facilitating systemic change of financial, contracting, and risk mitigation arrangements as well as increased access to stable and profitable markets. The project supports improvements in the irrigated rice, rain-fed rice, maize, and millet value chains across the Senegal River Valley, the Southern Groundnut Basin, and Casamance. A unique feature of the project is the way it uses simple, easily accessible digital tools to support locally owned and sustainable data collection and analysis.
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USAID
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Open
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