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Inclusive market systems that improve productivity, incomes, and nutrition


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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
  • 02

    Resilience
  • 03

    Enabling Environment for Agriculture
  • 04

    Climate-Smart Agriculture
  • 05

    Access to Finance
  • 06

    Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
  • 07

    Improved Production Practices and Technologies
  • 08

    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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USAID Rural Finance Initiative – Davivienda Agricultural Credit

USAID Colombia Rural Finance Initiative's work with rural Colombian client Davivienda, offering agricultural credit.

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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.

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.

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.

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Andrew Baker

Chief of Party, Punjab Enabling Environment Activity

Luis Chavez

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

Philip DeCosse

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Juan Baltasar Mejia Delgado

Deputy Chief of Party for Alliance for Root Causes and Opportunities Activity

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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