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St. Vincent to Benefit Significantly from USAID Food Security Program CAPA

August 17, 2023

The St. Vincent Times profiled IESC’s CAPA program, and discussed the program’s initiatives and aims to increase food security through increasing fruit and vegetable output, strengthening buyer and input supplier ties with farmers, and upgrading level extension services.

July 21, 2023

The project, which benefits El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, seeks to address the causes of migration through a holistic approach to trade through the horticultural sector. The project seeks to support 22,486 direct and 112,267 indirect beneficiaries, and will be executed from 2022 to 2027 with an investment of US$30.8 million.

July 19, 2023

Small and medium enterprises (SME) in Vietnam were hit hard by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and TOMECO An Khang was no exception. The impact of the pandemic on supply chains in 2020 drove revenue down by more than 24% and Mr. Kha, TOMECO’s Chairman, needed to find a way to bounce back and ensure job security for its 150 employees. Mr. Kha registered for one-on-one support from USAID’s Linkages for Small and Medium…

June 21, 2023

The Pekoe Trail, a long-distance walking trail in Sri Lanka established the Tourism Resilience Project, was recently featured in a New York Times article. The article invites travelers to explore Sri Lanka, highlighting The Pekoe Trail – with its 186 miles of trails formed from the tea industry’s transportation network – as one of seven recommended new walking trails around the world. The Tourism Resilience Project is funded by the…

May 24, 2023

Growers and shippers in the Dominican Republic are waiting optimistically an action plan to help expand the USDA APHIS pre-clearance program and allow the country to ship additional commodities. Via the USDA-funded Trade Safe project implemented by IESC, the final approval is on a new pre-clearance program for tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. The initiative stems from the five-year, $13.7 million USDA Food for Progress-funded Trade Safe (TraSa)…

May 21, 2023

The USDA Food for Progress funded Market-Oriented Dairy (MOD) Project in Sri Lanka, implemented by IESC, has collaborated with the Sri Lankan Department of Animal Production and Health (DAPH) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to develop a Climate-Smart Dairy Model to help small- and medium-scale dairy farmers in Sri Lanka mitigate climate impacts and adapt to changing climatic conditions. This model works at the farm…