InnovATE News

InnovATE welcomes Dr. Keith M. Moore as Interim Director

Keith MooreDr. Keith M. Moore began his career at Virginia Tech in 1994 managing projects on natural resource management in West Africa and pest management in the Ukraine for what was then known as the Office of International Development. Dr. Moore has more than 30 years of worldwide experience in the design, implementation, and analysis of agricultural and natural resource-based projects and policies. He has conducted over 70 Short-Term Technical Assistance and Collaborative Research Missions for USAID, IFAD and FAO, and has coordinated the development of core training for agriculture- and natural resource-sector staff in the World Bank. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political economy from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a master’s degree in rural development from The Hague, Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Moore’s expertise is in rural development policy, project monitoring and evaluation, conflict management, and gender issues.  He has served as the performance assessment director for InnovATE and as a PI on scoping visits to Armenia, Uganda and the DRC.

 

Kathmandu conference on climate change and sustainable livelihoods

For farmers in Nepal, climate change is not an abstract fear, it’s a daily reality. Inconsistent weather, inadequate water resources, rising temperatures and shifting seasons mean that farmers are having to adapt their systems to keep producing, while at the same time meeting the growing population’s demand for food.

Now is a critical time to address the needs of farmers who the World Bank estimates, with others along the agricultural value chain, make up more than 65% of the total population. Mitigating the impacts of climate change could not only increase agricultural production, but also improve livelihoods of this large population. Continue reading >

USAID leverages InnovATE expertise in workforce development training

USAID leverages InnovATEThis quarter marks a new chapter for InnovATE. Moving into year three, consortium partners are prioritizing the “Train” objective of the “Learn, Design, Train” framework, by planning training activities for agricultural education stakeholders. Starting the year off strong, the team collaborated with FHI 360 and USAID to offer a three-day training on workforce development programming for rural economies. Continue reading >

BIFAD and USAID AgExchange on HICD

November 18-20, 2014

Feeding the World in 2050: How Human and Institutional Capacity Development Can Support Agricultural Innovation Systems

The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) and USAID with support from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities(APLU) hosted a three-day facilitated online discussion that brought together key stakeholders to share experiences and input on how human and institutional capacity development (HICD) can contribute to a high-performing agricultural innovation system to feed the world by 2050. Continue reading >

Gender symposium in Senegal a success

“What is gender?” “Why do we care about gender?” Batamaka Somé, of the World Food Programme, posed these questions as keynote speaker and opening presenter at the ‘Strategies and Tools for Integrating Gender into Agriculture and Nutrition Curriculum’ Symposium jointly organized by USAID/Senegal Education and Research in Agriculture (ERA) and innovATE.  Continue reading >