Winrock International’s Education for Income Generation (EIG) project provides training to disadvantaged and conflict-affected youth in Nepal — mostly women between the ages of 16-30 — to increase their income through employment and agriculture. The innovative combination of entrepreneurial literacy, agriculture production, and market linkages for young women is improving food security. Sarah Tully, AAAS Fellow at USAID, sat down with Erin Hughes of Winrock International to discuss this successful program. View the interview below:
Andrew Preston, Counsellor Development, Foreign and Security Policy Group, British Embassy, Washington D.C.
Alexia Latortue, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), The World Bank
A special panel on "The Somalia Famine Declaration and Response—What went well, what did not, and the imperative to improve," was convened January 16 at FAO in coordination with the International Scientific Symposium on Food & Nutrition Security Information. The session brought together food and nutrition security analysts, senior decision makers, academics and other directly involved in the crisis. With panelists from FAO, WFP, UNICEF, FEWSNET, IFRC, Horn Relief, and others, the session engaged in candid, critical, and constructive discussion.
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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Climate-Smart Agriculture Workshop, held last month in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on approaches for effective program design of climate-smart agriculture in support of both country and regional CAADP investment plans. Climate-smart agriculture incorporates practices that increase productivity, efficiency, resilience, adaptive capacity, and mitigation potential of production systems.
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