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IAA
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FeedtheFuture

Agriculture
Nigeria
IAA
USAID
Feedthefuture

As an economic growth driver, the Nigerian Government envisions transforming agriculture as a sustainable and profitable sector with technology transfer for economic and food security.

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Workers carry piles of bricks on their heads in a brick factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Brick kilns emit large quantities of environmental pollutants into the atmosphere causing harmful impact on agricultural yields, climate and health.

Active members of Disi Women Cooperative have been working in these nurseries located in Wadi Rum.

Empowered Women, Sustaining Rangelands

For two years, the youth volunteers of FOSA have been collecting seeds from native plants and establishing forest nurseries. In March 2020, the association mobilized to reforest and restore 25 hectares of the Menabe Antimena Protected Area - a protected area suffering massive deforestation as a result of a complex set of issues including an influx of climate migrants to the area that are desperately looking for agricultural land. More than 24,000 seedlings growing in the group’s community nurseries will be part of the next wave of reforestation.

In this photo, it is seen that LSP Asma Akter provides on field demonstration to a rural farmer about the improved techniques of fodder cultivation which is a new technology in her community.

USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) program – the agency’s flagship program for combating global ocean plastic pollution – eliminates plastic pollution directly at its source, working at the local level to fix land-based waste management systems and institute more sustainable, resilient practices