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Inclusive market systems that improve productivity, incomes, and nutrition
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At Chemonics, we work to find and implement innovative projects that achieve development impact, committing to strategic partnerships that promote agricultural development, economic growth, and food security. As a result, local communities experience engaged market systems, enhanced resilience, increased incomes, and improved nutrition. Our work addresses food security for vulnerable populations, ensures improved livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and provides stable access to nutritious food. We support local agriculture leaders in guiding sustainable improvements and connect rural farmers with mobile banking services.

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

01 Food Security


Chemonics’ in-depth monitoring of livelihoods and nutrition provides early warning of food insecurity and complements its 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 populations’ access to sufficient…

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02 Resilience


At Chemonics, we define resilience as the ability or capacity to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses. Since our first agriculture interventions in 1975, we have built the capacity of individuals, households, communities, countries, and systems. More recently, we have developed proactive approaches supporting stakeholders in their efforts to reduce, mitigate, and…

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03 Nutrition


Chemonics addresses the many pathways that lead to undernutrition through multi-sectoral approaches that integrate nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions as well as social and behavior change principles. We begin at the community level, working with farmers, healthcare providers, and policymakers to reduce malnutrition and advance dietary diversity in the first 1,000 days. Together with stakeholders across…

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04 Improved Production Practices and Technologies


Chemonics introduces farmers to good agricultural practices (GAPs), production and post-harvest technologies, and data sources for sound farm management and financial decisions. Our repeated demonstrations with marginal rates of return motivate 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 platforms…

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05 Climate-Smart Agriculture


Chemonics integrates climate-smart principles throughout our agriculture programs to sustainably increase productivity, build resilient food systems, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We train farmers on adaptive practices, such as soil conservation, erosion prevention, and greenhouse production, and technologies like drought-tolerant seed varieties, micro-irrigation kits, and solar-powered dryers. We also expand their access to multi-peril crop…

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06 Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains


Chemonics creates an inclusive market system by building the capacity of farmers and agribusinesses, strengthening linkages, and aligning profit incentives for demand-driven and market-oriented production. We foster mutually beneficial relationships between value chain actors, facilitate supply contracts and agriculture-specific financing, and train farmers’ associations in record-keeping, quantity and quality standards, and post-harvest handling. We also…

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07 Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development


Through market systems strengthening, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprise 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 service providers to improve market linkages, foster innovation and product development, and increase access to new or improved technologies. We…

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08 Access to Finance


Chemonics unlocks 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 and motivate…

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09 Enabling Environment for Agriculture


Chemonics partners with agriculture stakeholders and policymakers to understand and dismantle systemic constraints to the enabling environment through technical assistance, advisory services, and the development of strategic public-private partnerships. This work improves the enabling environment around a variety of issues, including customs, seed multiplication and distribution, input supply, land tenure, agricultural finance, natural resource management,…

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Growing Gold on Trees

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

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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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David Dyer

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Laura Glaeser

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