USAID Projects
Current Projects
| Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Tanzania
USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), Phases I & II
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) is a research-for-development project that aims to expand farmer-led, small scale irrigation in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, and Tanzania.
| Uzbekistan
Agribusiness Development Activity (ADA)
The Agribusiness Development Activity (ADA) is funded by USAID and lead by Chemonics, to whom the Borlaug Institute is a subcontractor on this project. The ADA aims to improve the agribusiness sector in Uzbekistan.
| Afghanistan
Afghanistan Value Chains – High Value Crops (AVC-HVC)
The AVC-HVC project will work with anchor firms nationwide to reverse market failures, strengthen backward and forward linkages, drive growth, and create jobs for men, women, and youth along the fruit and nuts, high-value horticulture, spices, and medicinal crops value chains.
| Afghanistan
Afghanistan Value Chains – Livestock (AVC-L)
AVC-L will work with private-sector anchor firms in the dairy, poultry, small ruminants, Apiculture (bee keeping), and other livestock value chains across Afghanistan, supporting their sustained growth.
| Afghanistan
Women’s Scholarship Endowment (WSE)
The Women’s Scholarship Endowment (WSE) Activity aims to assist Afghan women to obtain a university education in a field of Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).