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"Field Work Is Invaluable": A WFP Staffer Fights Hunger In Burkina Faso
Peter Jourdan works for WFP in Burkina Faso. A Norwegian, he is part of a programme which provides work experience and training opportunities for young professionals. In this article, Peter reflects on the joys and challenges of his work in West Africa. Read more
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Purchase for Progress
6 Mar 2014
Blog: Diversified credit, enhanced project ownership and long-term planning to boost project success
P4P partner TechnoServe works with farmers’ cooperatives in Ethiopia, assisting them to improve their governance, business management and operation management so that they can sell to large institutional buyers such as WFP. In this blog, Heather Oh, Senior Business Development Manager, East Africa discusses her experience working with P4P.
Purchase for Progress
4 Mar 2014
Spotlight on P4P in Ghana
In Ghana, smallholder farmers are particularly limited by low productivity and significant post-harvest losses. From 2011 to 2013, P4P supported smallholders to increase their maize yields by 67 percent. Despite the progress, many challenges remain, including smallholders’ limited access to markets beyond WFP. To learn more about P4P in Ghana, read the country factsheet here.
Purchase for Progress
25 Feb 2014
Video: Produced in South Sudan
During the 2014 Annual Consultation, P4P partner Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) showed this video, which illustrates their collaboration with P4P in South Sudan. This partnership demonstrates how WFP’s demand can synergize efforts already being carried out by development partners such as GIZ, who train smallholders to improve the quantity and quality of their yields.
Purchase for Progress
25 Feb 2014
Emerging P4P results show importance of capacity building
In order for P4P to generate increased production and sales among smallholders, significant investments in capacity building are necessary. Emerging quantitative results, presented at the P4P Annual Consultation in January 2014, show how smallholders have benefitted from capacity building by P4P and its partners, leading to improved overall livelihoods.
Purchase for Progress
17 Feb 2014
Increasing women’s voice through agriculture
Throughout the pilot phase, P4P has focused on assisting women farmers to benefit economically from their work, gaining confidence and voice in their communities and homes. Mazouma Sanou, a farmer from Burkina Faso, has first-hand experience of these benefits as well as the challenges still facing women farmers.
Purchase for Progress
14 Feb 2014
Blog: Incentives, Investments and Leveraging to Link Smallholders with the Global Economy
ACDI/VOCA partners with Purchase for Progress (P4P) in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania to build the capacity of smallholder farmers, providing them with sustainable and diverse skill sets. In this post William Sparks, ACDI/VOCA Vice President, shares his experience with the five-year pilot P4P project and his hopes for the future.
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Food Aid Information System
The FAIS database contains the most reliable and comprehensive data on food aid flows. It is a source of information for food aid actors, academics, the media and anyone interested in global efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition in a global perspective.