Driving trade, technology, agriculture, business, and financial services to create jobs, reduce poverty, and enhance food security.
We help communities, nations, and regions address food insecurity by championing solutions that lead to resilient and sustainable livelihoods, including increasing agricultural productivity and production, expanding opportunities to increase and diversify incomes, and promoting socially and economically responsible safety nets.
We build a ladder between subsistence-level family farming and small-scale commercial agriculture. We also work to remove policy constraints that, while well-intentioned, tend to exacerbate rather than alleviate food shortages, especially during a crisis.
Alia Afshar is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of economic growth, workforce development, and competitiveness projects in the Middle East.
Edwin Berk has made a career of building the businesses of professional services companies where public and private sectors intersect.
Chuck Chopak is a Senior Lead Specialist in the Resilience and Stability practice with more than 35 years of experience managing, planning, and implementing food security and livelihood activities across Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America & the Caribbean.
Lief Doerring is a senior international development expert, leader, and portfolio manager with more than 20 years of experience working in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific.
Ric Goodman’s focus is on solutions to extreme poverty and vulnerability, often in hard to reach areas. He broadened his work to include the provision of goods and services to populations in remote areas, often in fragile ecosystems and environments, where people’s livelihoods are inherently fragile.
Don Humpal has worked for more than 30 years on agricultural production, postharvest handling and storage, marketing, and food safety programs, primarily in Africa as well as in Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and Middle East.
Brian Kiger brings 17 years of experience residing in diverse and economically under-developed communities—working with local and international private and public sector stakeholders in the agriculture, water security, sanitation, and hygiene sectors to improve available services and products.
Tom Lenaghan is a specialist in agricultural value chain and market systems approaches to development.
Itai Makanda is an agricultural development professional with experience in developing private sector-driven agricultural value chains from production to inclusive marketing systems development through partnerships.
Kirsten Pfeiffer leads the design and implementation of complex agriculture market systems and investment facilitation projects.
Shannon Sarbo is Deputy Chief of Party for the Policy Leadership, Interactions, Networks, and Knowledge (LINK) project, driving efforts to transform agricultural policy systems worldwide.
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