The Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS), an approach originally developed under CARE’s Pathways to Empowerment program, focuses on improving rural, small-scale women farmers’ productivity and profitability by empowering women to more fully engage in equitable agriculture systems, using an integrated, gender-transformative, market-based and nutrition sensitive extension approach. The Scaling Up FFBS Globally program, funded by the Sall Family Foundation, now influences over twenty global programs spanning over 30 countries, and aims to reach 25 million producers by 2027.
Feed the Future Sugu Yiriwa, funded by USAID, commissioned a baseline study of market gardening groups in Djenné and Bandiagara, which revealed their need for training in innovative technologies for appropriate cooling, storage, and preservation of fruit and vegetables in the project areas. Read More
Designed based on the gender survey commissioned by Sugu Yiriwa in 2022 and information gathered directly from direct beneficiaries, this image box aims to motivate and help development professionals to integrate a gender perspective into the development of agroforestry value chains by proposing practical approaches for each key theme. It is a dynamic, visual teaching tool for high-impact awareness-raising. Read More
This tool was used in Kenya in 2022 to assess the accessibility of WASH infrastructure. Read More