This report covers the Feed the Future Asia Innovative Farmers Activity for the 2015-16 fiscal year (September 18, 2015-September 30, 2016).
The project has made great progress this year in developing and implementing an innovative, integrated approach that is: building awareness and excitement around the potential for new technologies to solve persistent smallholder agricultural constraints and facilitating a broad-based regional innovation community to bring regional resources and experience together for the benefit of Asian smallholder agriculture; identifying new, cutting edge agricultural technologies from South and South East Asia; facilitating the commercial expansion of new technologies into Feed the Future focal countries.
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security. To achieve...
The Agriculture Technology Program for Turkmenistan (AgTech), funded by USAID and implemented by Weidemann Associates, Inc., aims to increase and develop private enterprises, and improve productivity of private, small and household farms. The project has two key components: the improvement of genetics,...
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The Feed the Future Asia Innovative Farmers Activity (AIFA) is a regional project working to facilitate the scaling of critical agricultural technologies through regional partnership and technology transfer. The project works with a range of agricultural technology stakeholders on a...