Food Aid Packaging Evaluation

Mark Brennan, Jarrod Goentzel, Prithvi Sundar, MIT Comprehensive Initiative for Technology Evaluation (CITE)Partner: USAID Food for Peace began in 1954, and is implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Each year, nearly $2.2...

Solar Lanterns Evaluation

Jarrod Goentzel, Tim Breitbach, MIT Comprehensive Initiative for Technology Evaluation (CITE) ​ Partners: Solar Sister Solar lanterns have the potential to impact key development outcomes for parts of the developing world that have low or...

Post-harvest storage in Uganda

Mark Brennan, Emily GoodingPartners: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Makerere University Various technologies have been developed to improve post-harvest food storage and reduce PHL. These products...

A Low-Income Country’s Homegrown Solution to Clean Water

Erin ReissmanPartner: USAID Safe water and improved sanitation are essential to human health and well being throughout the world. In India, only 33% of households treat their water, even though the water could be chemically or bacterially contaminated. So in...

Decision Support for Post-Harvest Loss in Tanzania

Jarrod Goentzel, Mark BrennanPartner: Global Knowledge Initiative One-third of the world’s available food either spoils or gets thrown away. Post-harvest loss is a challenge that an increasing number of organizations across sub-Saharan Africa aim to...