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​​​​At Chemonics, we are committed to working together to find and implement innovative projects that achieve development impact. That’s why we build strategic partnerships that promote agricultural development, economic growth, and food security. As a result, local communities are able to enhance resiliency, increase incomes, and improve nutrition. Our projects address food security for vulnerable populations, ensure improved livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and provide stable access to nutritious food. Our successes are rooted in technical and innovative approaches. We’ve connected rural farmers with mobile banking services, and we’ve identified and supported local agriculture luminaries to guide sustainable improvements throughout the sector.

Services in Agriculture and Food Security

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    Nutrition
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    Resilience
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    Enabling Environment for Agriculture
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    Climate-Smart Agriculture
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    Access to Finance
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    Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
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    Improved Production Practices and Technologies
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    Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains
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    Food Security

01 Nutrition


To improve nutritional outcomes, we must use an integrated approach that addresses the many pathways that lead to undernutrition. We need multi-sectoral approaches that incorporate nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions as well as social and behavior change. Our approach to reducing malnutrition and advancing dietary diversity begins at the community level, starting with the first 1,000…

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02 Resilience


At Chemonics, we adhere to USAID’s definition of resilience, with its emphasis on the ability or capacity to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses. Since 1975, with our first agriculture interventions, we have refined methods for building capacity of individuals, households, communities, countries, and systems. In recent years, we have developed approaches…

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03 Enabling Environment for Agriculture


We work with agriculture stakeholders and policymakers to understand and dismantle systemic enabling environment constraints by providing technical assistance and advisory services and developing strategic public-private partnerships. Through these avenues, we are improving the enabling environment around a variety of issues, including customs, input supply, land tenure, agricultural finance, natural resource management, trade, and sanitary…

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04 Climate-Smart Agriculture


We integrate climate-smart agriculture throughout our programs to sustainably increase productivity, build resilient food systems, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We train farmers on adaptive practices and technologies — such as soil conservation, erosion prevention, and greenhouse production — as well as the use of drought-tolerant seed varieties, micro-irrigation kits, and solar-powered dryers. We also…

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05 Access to Finance


We work to unlock the financing that value chain actors need to make investments in productivity, post-harvest systems, and mechanization. On the demand side, we focus on improving farmers’ financial literacy and strengthening the technical and business skills of producer organizations. On the supply side, we support the design, deployment, and scale of financial products…

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06 Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development


Through market systems strengthening, micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) development, and entrepreneurship promotion, Chemonics helps to create, grow, and sustain businesses that stimulate economic growth. Using a facilitation approach, we work with local businesses and services providers to improve market linkages, foster innovation and product development, and increase access to new or improved technologies.…

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07 Improved Production Practices and Technologies


We introduce farmers to good agricultural practices (GAPs), production and post-harvest technologies, and information for sound farm management and financial decisions. We use repeated demonstrations to show marginal rates of return, motivating farmers to incrementally ‘climb the adoption ladder’ from GAPs to low-cost technology to higher-cost inputs and assets. We also connect farmers to digital…

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08 Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains


To create an inclusive market system, we build the capacity of farmers and agribusinesses, strengthen linkages, and align profit incentives to ensure production is demand-driven and market-oriented. We foster mutually beneficial relationships between value chain actors, facilitate supply contracts and agriculture-specific financing, and train farmers associations in record keeping, meeting quantity and quality standards, and…

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09 Food Security


We conduct in-depth monitoring of livelihoods and nutrition for early warning of food insecurity, and provide mechanisms for smallholder farmers to improve productivity. We strengthen agricultural industries to improve domestic production and increase incomes for smallholder farmers. Through private sector demand-driven market interventions, we mitigate value chain constraints that negatively affect population’ access to sufficient…

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Empowering Women in Rural Khatlon, Tajikistan

The Feed the Future Tajikistan Land Market Development Activity seeks to improve the status of rural women in society by increasing the number of women heads of farms.

Mama Patria

More than 200 organizations make up ASOLIPNAR, an Afro-Colombian organization led by women in Colombia. Many members represent social or ethnic minorities, and all are committed to improving their communities in the face of conflict.

Farming Communities in Georgia

The USAID New Economic Opportunities project provided emergency relief to Georgian farmers affected by severe hailstorms and flooding . The project provided aid through animal feeding blocks, seedlings, and structure rehabilitation.

Nigeria MARKETS

How do you transform agriculture in a country the size of Nigeria? A pioneering USAID project is paving the way with a private sector approach.

Agrikool Career Exhibition in Uganda

To expose Uganda’s growing youth population to agricultural career opportunities, Chemonics’ USAID Feed the Future Youth Leadership for Agriculture activity hosted a full-day agricultural career exhibition for more than 1,800 youth.

Growing Gold on Trees

With help from USAID, Pakistani farmers were able to increase the quality of their mango crops and receive the certification necessary to sell to international markets.

Berry Production in Bosnia

With assistance from the USAID and Sida joint Fostering Agriculture Markets Activity project, Amra Ugarak was able to start a berry production business and provide a better life for her family in Bosnia.

Giorgi Topuria: Poultry Farmer

With the help of a poultry livelihood package from New Economic Opportunities, Giorgi Topuria was able to start his own business raising poultry and earn money to continue his education.

Interview with Eduard Shermadini

New Economic Opportunities' agricultural value chain initiatives along administrative boundary lines in Georgia can foster rural development and create local jobs.

Strawberry Value Chains in Georgia

Through USAID’s New Economic Opportunities (NEO) program, Georgian farmers learned to cultivate strawberries, resulting in the creation of a development association and a new annual strawberry festival.

Agricultural Innovation in Haiti

Following the Association for International Agriculture & Rural Development's #AIARD53 Conference, Jean-Robert Estimé explores the innovations with the greatest potential to transform agriculture in Haiti.

Rural and Urban Food Security

Ahead of the 2017 Cracking the Nut Conference, Agriculture and Food Security Practice Director Rob Henning explores the difference between rural and urban food security.

Dairy Cattle Silage Production (Sinhalese)

This instructional video produced in Sinhalese by the USAID Supporting Opportunities for Livelihoods Development (SOLID) activity shows best practices to produce year-round cattle feed for Sri Lankan dairy farmers.

Dairy Cattle Silage Production (Tamil)

This instructional video produced in Tamil by USAID Supporting Opportunities for Livelihoods Development (SOLID) activity shows best practices to produce year-round cattle feed for Sri Lankan dairy farmers.

Broiler Production Management Program

The Broiler Management Training Program, conducted by USAID Supporting Opportunities for Livelihood Development, helped three Sri Lankan farmers incorporate small-scale poultry farming into their work.

Nona Kavartskhelia: Hairdresser in Georgia

After completing a New Economic Opportunities-supported course in hairdressing in Georgia, Nona Kavartskhelia was able to find a job with a beauty salon in Kutaisi.

Nana Pipia: Head of the Strawberry Association

New Economic Opportunities grant funds helped a Georgian strawberry farming association adopt modern production practices and expand their operations.

Connecting the Community

Utilizing a step-down training method, the USAID Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targets Sites project helped Nigerian farmers develop new skills and connect with credit organizations for loans.

The Story Behind the Story

Becaues most farms in Bosnia and Herzegovina are relatively small, limiting production and the amount of money farmers can earn, USAID Fostering Agricultural Market Development Activity encouraged the planting of more high value crops.

Tesanj Dairy Association

The USAID and Sida joint Fostering Agriculture Markets Activity project connected the Tešanj-Usora Women’s Agricultural Association with new skills and technologies to improve the quality and quantity of their dairy products.

Producer Associations in Colombia

Responding to the violence and instability brought by coca cultivation, associations in Anorí, Colombia created a plan to return to responsible farming, resulting in an improved economy, reduced violence, and an empowered community.

Climate Resilience in the Market System

How does climate resilience relate to markets? David Dyer, former chief of party of the Sri Lanka Supporting Opportunities for Livelihoods Development (SOLID) project, shares his insights.

Collaborating with the Private Sector

How can you work with the private sector to improve nutrition outcomes? David Dyer shares his insights from the USAID Sri Lanka Supporting Opportunities for Livelihoods Development (SOLID) project.

Empowering the Individual

When supplied with the high-quality, low-cost technologies and skills needed to align with market specifications, Nigerian smallholder farmers can increase their incomes and improve homes, health, and livelihoods.

Feeding the Future in Nigeria

The USAID Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites project has supported Nigeria’s agricultural sector by facilitating public-private partnerships and generating $81,067,052 in public sector investments.

Transforming Agriculture in Nigeria

By engaging both the public and private sectors, USAID/Nigeria’s flagship project under Feed the Future enabled rural smallholder Nigerian farmers to sustainably produce over $1.7 billion in sales over a five-year period.

What Men Can Do, Ladies Can Do

The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity partnered with Sing With Me Happily to train 108 female youth in tractor operations and help them find employment across Uganda.

Filling Gaps in Uganda’s Market Systems

With the Feed the Future Uganda Commodity Production and Marketing Activity, agriculture company Akorion uses a digital solution to help farmers access support services and improve information flow in the agricultural market system.

Youth Involvement in Agriculture

Philip DeCosse sits down with Dr. Tom Reardon to discuss opportunities for youth to benefit from intermediary growth.

Opportunities for Capital Access

Philip DeCosse sits down with Dr. Tom Reardon to discuss trends in capital access and the growth in the use of intermediaries.

Technology in Agriculture Supply Chains

Philip DeCosse sits down with Dr. Tom Reardon to discuss investment in technology within the logistics element of the supply chain.

A Female Tractor Operator in Uganda Breaks Barriers

With support from the Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity, Kevin Akello became the first female tractor operator in her community and proved “what a man can do, a woman can also do.”

Rural Farmers in Market Systems

Dr. Tom Reardon sits down with Philip DeCosse to discuss the benefits of intermediaries for rural farmers.

A Bigger Haul

Fish is a vital source of protein and Nigeria needs more of it!. See how one USAID project is improving the country's food security by getting more and more people to farm fish.

Lettuce Production & Distribution

The USAID New Economic Opportunities (NEO) program provided Georgian farmers with the tools needed to produce lettuce year-round, improving economic opportunities for farmers and a reduced dependency on imports nationally.

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Andrew Baker

Andrew Baker

Chief of Party, Punjab Enabling Environment Activity

Maria Olanda Bata

Chief of Party, Coastal Cities Adaptation Program

Luis Chavez

Project Management Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Business Unit

Philip DeCosse

Senior Vice President, West and Central Africa and Haiti

David Dyer

David Dyer

Chief of Party, Kyrgyzstan AGRO Trade Activity

Laura Glaeser

Chief of Party, USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network 7

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Sowing Stronger Markets in Kyrgyzstan

With stronger markets in place, Kyrgyzstan’s agricultural-led economy can flourish.

Farming for Food Security in Zimbabwe

Food security in Zimbabwe depends on an investment in farming households.

Bananas

A Fruitful Future for Bangladesh

Healthy market systems in Bangladesh can help agribusinesses flourish while sowing the seeds for food security.

Growing Agribusiness in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan’s agribusinesses depend on stronger market systems.

Apples

Sprouting Opportunities in Rural Ukraine

Economic opportunities are cropping up for agricultural businesses in rural Ukraine.

Protecting Food Value Chains Across Africa

Aflasafe is a solution that reduces poisonous Aflatoxin levels in staple crops. Its commercialization improves food security and promotes resilience.

Supporting the Peruvian Government to Promote Alternatives to Coca

Peru is making significant strides in reducing coca production in rural communities. Yet, solidifying these gains and helping increase effective state presence and viable economic opportunities is still a major challenge.

Establishing a Land Market in Tajikistan

Tajikistan is pursuing its next stage in land reform: establishing a land market to ensure the orderly transfer of land rights.

Accelerating Agricultural Growth in Pakistan

In the most populated region in Pakistan, new policy and investment is giving a boost to agribusinesses and creating economic growth.

Creating Economic Growth in Haiti

Investing in Haiti's agriculture sector helped to modernize agriculture, reduce flooding threats, and create strong linkages between farmer organizations and private enterprises.

Transforming the Nigerian Agriculture Sector

Nigerians who farm for a living often face low harvests and sales, which threatens the population’s livelihoods, access to food, and health.

Promoting Sustainable Agriculture in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is working to strengthen the agriculture sector in western provinces, where a significant portion of the population relies on farming and agribusinesses.

Energizing Farming and Agribusiness in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Aiming to enter the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina must improve the economic value of the agriculture sector.

Transforming Moldova’s Agriculture Sector

Moldova’s agriculture sector has a promising future, but to become more competitive and achieve its full potential, the country needs systematic support.

Unlocking Ukraine’s Agricultural Potential

With better policies, Ukraine can leverage its agriculture sector to get the most out of its arable land while supporting its more than 4 million smallholder farmers.

Creating Opportunities for Youth in Agriculture

Uganda, which has the second-youngest population in the world, is creating economic opportunities for youth in the agriculture sector.

Breaking Down Barriers to Agribusiness in Uganda

In Uganda, where half of all exports are agricultural, crop yields are low, but the public and private sectors are collaborating to improve agricultural production and make it easier for farmers to do business.

Strengthening Maize, Bean, and Coffee Value Chains in Uganda

Although the vast majority of Ugandans earn their incomes from farming, the sector only generates about 20 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

Improved Livelihoods and Nutrition in Tajikistan

To address widespread nutrition deficiencies and food insecurity, smallholder farmers in Tajikistan must increase, diversify, and add value to their agricultural production.

Stronger and Healthier Households in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan farmers are getting linked with buyers, financing, training, and inputs to sustainably increase incomes and improve nutrition in an effort to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable populations.

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News: Chemonics Projects Earn Industry Recognition at SID-W Innovation Competition

Two panels of development experts, along with attendees of last week’s Society for International Development – Washington Chapter’s (SID-W) Virtual Annual Conference, have recognized three Chemonics-implemented projects for their innovative approaches to development challenges. The awards were announced during the event as part of SID-W’s annual Innovation Competition. This year, SID-W members entered their innovations…

Lead with Data: A Practical Tool to Design and Implement Market Systems Programming

This blog post originally appeared on the Market Systems Development Hub. Focusing Project Design on MSD ​The facilitative, systems approach required for market systems development (MSD) is not always intuitive to project staff. Those accustomed to working on traditional development programming have focused on training for beneficiaries, and those coming from the private sector have…

Three Models that Ensure Private Sector Engagement

This post originally appeared on Devex. Donor agencies, such as the United States Agency for International Development and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, have made private sector engagement, or PSE, a key element of their development strategies. Being more intentional about including the private sector in development is good news. Over the years,…

News: Chemonics Invests in Young Innovators’ Promising Development Solutions

On Tuesday, November 12, Chemonics awarded two teams of young problem-solvers with funding and ongoing support to continue development of their innovative solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Presented by Chemonics’ Executive Vice President Jamey Butcher, the award was part of the company’s commitment as lead scale partner of the UNLEASH global innovation…

She Is an Agripreneur: Enabling Female Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness

Rapid urbanization in developing countries is shifting demand for agricultural goods. Meanwhile, the digitization of value chains is generating more transparent information on the pricing and movement of goods. These changes within food systems open windows of opportunity for agripreneurship — that is, entrepreneurship in the agriculture sector — both on the farm and beyond…

News: Building Resilience Through Market Systems: Chemonics Presents at SEEP 2019

How can we forge better partnerships to drive agricultural productivity, incomes, and nutrition? How can we use data to empower people and foster resilience? What are the best ways to engage the private sector to make financial services inclusive? Chemonics will discuss these questions and more at the 2019 Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP)…

Maximizing the Power of Climate Data by Building Trust

This post originally appeared on the SEEP blog. As the frequency and magnitude of climate-related hazards increases, these changes are affecting people’s livelihoods — particularly those of rural and vulnerable populations — more than ever. In response to this challenge, climate data can be employed in program design to foster greater resilience for livelihoods at…

3 Questions with Najib Seguya on Pay-for-Results Financing

This post originally appeared on Marketlinks. Najib Seguya of the Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership in Agriculture (YLA) activity’s Strategic Activities Fund team discusses key considerations to keep in mind when designing a pay-for-results (PfR) program, also known as performance-based financing. Alex Tekakwo, Anthony Nyende, and Sara Tohamy also contributed to this interview. 1.…

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Development Works Here with Robert Anyang

We’d like you to meet Robert Anyang! Robert is an agricultural value chain improvement and marketing expert. With extensive experience advancing public-private partnerships, incubating youth-owned businesses, and expanding farmers’ access to markets, Robert shares how he was destined for his current career. Robert is one reason #DevelopmentWorksHere. 1. Can you tell us about your journey…

3 Questions with Cynthia Steen on Transforming Moldova’s Agriculture Sector

Cynthia Steen serves as chief of party of the USAID Moldova High Value Agriculture Activity (HVAA) and has previously led agribusiness and enterprise development projects in multiple countries, including Egypt, Albania, Jamaica, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. HVAA is successfully demonstrating production, post-harvest, and marketing techniques to make Moldova a more competitive exporter, creating sustainable opportunities…

When Projects Close: Lessons Learned from an Ex-Post Study

As international development professionals, we strive for sustainable project results and an evidence base for our approaches. But the truth is we don’t always know what happens to our efforts after a project closes. Chemonics recently conducted a self-financed ex-post study of a former agriculture project to fill that information gap. While the team did…

Garron Hansen

News: Chemonics Welcomes New Agriculture and Food Security Practice Director

Chemonics is pleased to announce Garron Hansen as its new Agriculture and Food Security Practice director. Mr. Hansen is an accomplished agriculture, economic growth, and private sector development professional with nearly two decades of experience. Before joining Chemonics, Mr. Hansen served as a program officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Agriculture Development team,…

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News: Chemonics’ Senior Vice President Philip DeCosse Discusses Food Security and Resilience in Nigeria at CSIS Event

On Wednesday, February 13, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a panel discussion on U.S.-led global food security featuring Chemonics Senior Vice President Philip DeCosse. The event, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and hosted at CSIS headquarters in Washington, D.C., marked the launch of CSIS’s newest report: Risk and…

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Tracking Distortions Versus Designing for Disruption

This post originally appeared on the SEEP Network. What is the difference between a market distortion and a market disruption, and do we need to track data differently in these contexts? These are the fundamental questions that panelists at the 2018 SEEP Annual Conference session, M&E for Markets: Building Evidence, Tracking Distortions, and Measuring Success tried to answer. In…

Drones Present Modern Solution for Heritage Wine Industry

With nearly 150,000 hectares of vineyards, the small nation of Moldova has one of the largest densities of vineyards in the world. Here, the wine industry is a cultural touchstone with a history stretching back thousands of years. It forms the backbone of the rural economy, providing income for more than 250,000 people and more…

Securing our Future: Partnerships for Youth

Getting the global economy on track to reap a demographic dividend, create prosperity, protect the planet, and eliminate extreme poverty will be difficult unless governments, international donors, businesses, and practitioners work together to harness the economic aspirations of youth. A recent study by the International Labour Organization shows that 13.6 percent of youth, or more…

A Resilience Sentinel Network for the Horn of Africa

This post originally appeared on Agrilinks. A sustained focus on resilience in the past decade has led to broad acceptance of it as a major programmatic priority for programs designed to strengthen the ability of vulnerable households to withstand myriad shocks and stresses. Resilience measurement concepts and methods have improved dramatically together with resilience theory and practice,…

Supporting Healthy Digital Platform Competition in the Georgian Agriculture Market

This post originally appeared on ICTworks. When working in international markets, there is one golden rule to ensure sustainability: make sure your interventions do not distort markets. In small markets, such as Georgia, a country with less than 4 million people, 50 percent of which are self-employed in the agriculture industry, this is especially important. Laying…

Women meet as part of a community savings group in Colombia.

Value Chain Finance with a Digital Twist

Back in 2015 while designing our approach for USAID’s Colombia Rural Finance Initiative (RFI), a Colombian colleague and I visited a sugar smallholder who had settled in the Meta department, fleeing the civil war. On his adobe walls hung a photograph of the farmer smiling proudly next to Colombia’s President Santos, who had visited their…

A farmer tends to his fields in El Salvador

News: Charting a New Course at #DevexWorld

How can the development community bring stakeholders together to achieve the SDGs? What does a successful public-private partnership look like in today’s development landscape? These are some of the questions that Devex World aims to tackle on June 12 in Washington, D.C. Chemonics is proud to be a Changemaker Partner this year, sharing insight from…

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