The United States and India Help Improve African Agriculture

JAIPUR- The United States and India launched today the second India-U.S.-Africa triangular agricultural training program supported by the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative Feed the Future. This partnership aims to improve agricultural productivity and support market institutions in Kenya, Liberia, and Malawi.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Food Security Office Director Bahiru Duguma kicked off this initiative. Dr. Duguma explained that, as part of the broader U.S.-India global partnership, the triangular engagement “will share proven innovations from India’s private and public sector to address food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty in the target African countries.”

The program will train 180 agricultural professionals from these three African countries by providing marketing and extension management training at the Chaudhury Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) in Jaipur and at the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management in Hyderabad. The initiative, led by USAID and NIAM, is part of a three-year training program and one of several activities resulting from the global strategic partnership announced by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President Barack Obama in 2010. 

To learn more about Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, visit: www.feedthefuture.gov