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La ayuda exterior de Estados Unidos siempre ha tenido el doble propósito de promover los intereses de Estados Unidos mientras mejora la vida en el mundo en vías de desarrollo. USAID lleva a cabo la política exterior de los Estados Unidos, mediante la promoción del progreso humano a gran escala, al mismo tiempo que expande sociedades libres y estables, crea mercados y socios comerciales para los Estados Unidos y fomenta la buena voluntad en el extranjero.
- Purpose.TheSector Environmental Guidelinespresentinformation on commonUSAIDdevelopment actions regarding: the typical, potential adverse impacts of activities in these sectors; how to prevent or otherwise mitigate these impacts, both in the form of general activity design guidance and specific...
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SECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES & RESOURCES Purpose.TheSector Environmental Guidelinespresentinformation on commonUSAIDdevelopment actions regarding: the typical, potential adverse impacts of activities in these sectors; how to prevent or otherwise mitigate these impacts, both in the form of...
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U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade...
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Throughout the world, USAID supports land use/ land management activities that have direct, significant and positive impacts on the climate. USAID’s Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) programs help mitigate climate change in 119 countries by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from...
- As we increasingly digitize our programs and activities, enormous opportunities emerge for time savings, cost savings, and even saving lives. However, digital tools can introduce the potential for harm if used without appropriate attention to critical issues like privacy, security, or the many...
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Secure land and property rights create incentives for investment and trade and contribute to job growth and global prosperity. Secure rights also create incentives for good stewardship of land and natural resources, which improves food security, agricultural productivity, and limits the...
- Development is changing. One major reason why: technology is changing not just how we do business, but the model for development itself. In developing countries and communities, digital technologies like the mobile phone are increasingly in the hands of people who stand to benefit from them the...
- Building on decades of leadership in digital development, the Strategy outlines USAID’s deliberate and holistic commitment to strengthen open, inclusive, and secure digital ecosystems in each country in which we work. These digital ecosystems are transforming how people worldwide gain access to...
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View a how-to video for using natural enemies against the devastating millet head miner. Factsheet
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Feed the Future This Why Agriculture features Rob Bertram, Chief Scientist USAID. It is a teaching resource within USAID's Food Security and Agriculture Core Course, which incorporates USAID's focus for food security and agriculture development under the Global Food Security Strategy and...
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These wiki pages codify good practice in value chain development and emerging learning in inclusive market systems development, drawing from research conducted under the leadership of the USAID/E3 team, by ACDI/VOCA’s AMAP BDS and LEO consortia and many other contributing organizations,...
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USAID’s Global Climate Change Programs reach more than 50 countries on four continents. Partner countries define their own goals. USAID assistance helps build capacity to adapt to climate change and lower greenhouse gas emissions, while pursuing economic growth. The programs under the orange tab...
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The Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) calls forexpandingwork in improving nutrition and resilience. This course underscores the Agency's focus onfood security development and incorporates the Agency’s vision for food security and agriculture development under the GFSS. Participants will...
- Discover content and resources related to market development, economic growth, and cross-cutting issues. Each topic below contains the most recent Marketlinks posts, events, and discussions tagged to that subject. The Tools & Training section of Marketlinks contains a set of recommended...
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TheU.S. Global Development Lab (Lab) and theBureau for Food Securityare collaborating in an effort called “Digital Development for Feed the Future” (D2FTF) to demonstrate how leveraging digital tools holistically and according to best practices can improve the cost effectiveness and development...
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Like railways and roads before it, the internet is unleashing waves of innovation and transforming the way in which businesses, consumers, and governments operate and interact with each other.The rapid growth in mobile phone ownership and mobile broadband usage is serving only to accelerate this...
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This Agricultural Transformation video is a teaching resource within USAID's Food Security and Agriculture Core Course, which incorportates USAID's focus for food security and agriculture development under the Global Food Security Strategy and expanding work in nutrition and resilience.
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In many countries, land rights and land governance systems are weak. Rights and claims to land are often undocumented and overlapping. Demand for land is rising, fueling competition, conflict, and increasing barriers to access for some groups. Evidence suggests thatUNDERSTANDING,CLARIFYING, and...
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1/1/1980 19 pages, illustrated, photos
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Developing Local Extension Capacity USAID’s Bureau for Food Security (BFS) and Digital Green have launched the five-yearFeed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)project, in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CARE International, and multiple...
- The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) has been working to catalog existing cooking technologies and fuels that are available worldwide (traditional and improved), tracking key features of the technologies as well as testing results. Currently there are over 300 stoves in its Clean...
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- TheDevelopment Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)is the largest online resource for USAID funded technical and project materials for international development, with assets dating back to 1945. You are able to access information on over 190,000 USAID technical and program documents with more than...
- 20/7/2013 Abstract, , 2013 This field-tested, six-day curriculum responds to community development managers', program planners' and behavior change officers’ need for a practical behavioral framework that strategically aids them in planning for maximum effectiveness. This curriculum, originally adapted...
- 20/8/2012 In many African countries, women are relegated to the periphery of the decision-making ladder on important issues such as access to land and other productive resources. This traditional legacy resulted in an unequal structure of society and unequal distribution of resources. In Zimbabwe,...
- TheDevelopment Experience Clearinghouse(DEC) is theU.S. Agency for International Development(USAID) online repository for materials documenting its nearly half century offering internationalhumanitarian aidand economic, agricultural, trade, health, and democratic support. Established in 1975, the...
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In a perfect world, everyone would have access to nutritious, affordable food. However, as Rick Bates knows, there is no such thing as utopia when it comes to food security, as millions of people around the world have limited food resources. One of those places is Cambodia in Southeast Asia, one...
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We support farmers and agribusiness professionals in developing countries to improve their livelihoods and food security. Farmer-to-Farmer sends U.S.-based volunteers on technical assignments to provide hands-on training to communities, cooperatives, agribusinesses, and educational institutions....
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More than 500 million smallholder farms worldwide play a significant role in food production and the genetic diversity of the food supply. Until now, it has been difficult to get information to or from smallholder farmers, compounding basic infrastructural problems such as access to inputs,...
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To address food insecurity and spur agriculture-led growth, the government of Malawi has developed a National Nutrition Policy and Strategic Plan, closely linked to its Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) plan, and the Agriculture Sector-Wide Approach, which together...