Agricultural Development Initiatives

 

ADI exists to serve by helping families produce, consume, and market nutritious food.

 

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About Us

Given that most of the world’s poor are engaged in agriculture, ADI aims to serve rural and urban households within the agricultural sector of low-income countries. ADI’s purpose is to help smallholding subsistence households gain and maintain financial freedom. The family is the unit of analysis.

The following activities are instrumental to ADI’s work

  • Facilitating the transfer of appropriate technology to agricultural enterprises
  • Encouraging the formation of new business ventures among local entrepreneurs
  • Assisting local agribusinesses to process and market agricultural products that can supply regional and global markets
  • Partnering with local institutions and community organizations to build capacity and capitalize on strategic competitive advantages

 Real development means that real people in real households move out of poverty.

In order to cross over the poverty threshold, families must earn more income. Aid organization activities that encourage dependency are particularly dangerous because they discourage risk taking and dampen new initiatives among poor families. That is why trade is better than aid. 

What should we do to feed a hungry world?

Request for Proposals

ADI is interested in your proposal for an agricultural development initiative. ADI exists to serve by helping families produce, consume, and market nutritious food. If you have a proposal for the use of partner resources, please share your idea to info@agri-develop.org. Proposals should be written on one page, single spaced, 12-point font. Grants are available for $50 to $3,000. Keep in mind that the family is the unit of analysis.

"Your presence and [baseball] activity at the school touched many and we are thankful for your work."

-Director of the American School in Mauritania, March 2024

“Thank you for all of this. I saw many new things and good food like porridge enriched with eggs and vegetables; my children are now better nourished, and they have more strength.”

 

– Aichatou, nutrition clinic beneficiary, November 2023

“Porridge enriched with egg or peanut paste is new for me, but very good, as are bourake, mixed tijakht and homemade curd. My child was not eating, now he is. When I get home, I wash my hands and the children’s.”

 

– Salemkahla, nutrition clinic beneficiary, November 2023

“My children only drank milk and yogurt, now they eat enriched porridge, baghale, tijmakht and burake. I thank you all. I also like the lessons on hygiene, breastfeeding, playing with the child, and taking care of the child.”

– Houley, nutrition clinic beneficiary, December 2023