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Paving the Way: A Monumental Partnership Responds to the Global Food Security Crisis
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides an important and increasingly more...
Ukraine AGRO team
Dec 22, 20235 min read
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Technology Disruption in MSD Programs – From Startups to Multinationals
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides some important insights on how to...
Karen Smith
Dec 21, 20235 min read
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Revamping Market Systems Assessments: Moving to Inclusive Learning & Adaptation
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides an important perspective around...
Jessica Li
Dec 14, 20235 min read
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Approaches to meeting emergent needs without sacrificing systemic change
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides a timely discussion of how MSD...
Dan Langfitt, Metha Bonefride and Nicole Kivava
Dec 7, 20239 min read
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MS4G’s System-Based Response to a Market Shock in Ethiopia
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog highlights an important aspect of risk...
Elizabeth Adams and Sehul Truesaw
Dec 7, 20234 min read
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MSD: The symbiosis of efficient last-mile distribution and community engagement
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides some excellent examples of how...
Emmet Murphy, David Byiringiro, Straton Fatahose, Vivekan Jeyagaran
Dec 5, 20235 min read
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From Silos to Systems: Navigating a World That Continues to Grow in Complexity
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog digs into an important topic for systems...
Rob van Hout
Dec 5, 20234 min read
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Resilience for Social Systems-Health: An Innovative Approach to Analyze Resilience of Health Systems
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides an overview of GOAL’s Resilience...
GOAL
Nov 30, 20234 min read
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Inclusive Governance: A Market Systems Prerequisite to Sustain Agrifood System Impacts
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides an important discussion of the...
Kimthea Pich and Michael Brown, World Vision Cambodia & World Vision US
Nov 27, 20236 min read
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Restoring Rwanda's Landscape and Livelihoods: World Vision's FLR Project
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides a good example of the...
Sadruzzaman 'Tamam' Noor
Nov 21, 20235 min read
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Food System Studies Reveal Key Leverage Points for Resilience
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides an excellent case for how a MSR...
Joanna Springer for the Feed the Future Ethiopia Transforming Agriculture Activity
Nov 21, 20235 min read
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Progress in Market Systems: Going from Conceptual Theory to Real-World Solutions
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides some interesting insights and...
Hayden Aaronson
Nov 10, 20236 min read
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Seeking The Holy Grail: Projects Impact Positively on Climate Issues, but Is the Change Systemic?
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides practical insights and lessons on...
Christina Grunewald & Ailsa Buckley
Nov 10, 20234 min read
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Facilitating nature-based solutions by nurturing market systems-focused ecosystem services
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides some important lessons about the...
TetraTech
Nov 10, 20234 min read
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Kabrit plizyè mèt mouri nan solèy: Understanding systems dynamics in the Haitian livestock sector
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides a summary of how MSR analysis can...
Emmet Murphy and Mike Field
Nov 8, 20234 min read
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For the Sake of Learning: Building a Community Around MSD for Employment
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog highlights the critically important...
Justin van Rhyn, Mike Klassen, Daniel Nippard
Nov 8, 20234 min read
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Growing Quality Pyrethrum in Tanzania for a Growing Global Market
MSD Hub editor's note (Michael Field, Senior Systems Specialist, Vikāra Institute): This blog provides an excellent case of how...
Corus International
Nov 8, 20235 min read
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Using MSD to Unlock Private Investment & Support Climate-Resilient Food Systems
Climate change has been a slow-moving risk for some time now, but what is often missed, which this blog points out, is that there are...
Katy Allen, Anthony Nyungu, Yohannes Assefa
Nov 1, 20233 min read
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Partner self-selection and amplifying behaviors
In the third blog of the series, the authors focus in on some very important lessons from their application of systems thinking to...
Monica Rashkin
Oct 12, 20236 min read
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Value Creation for Low-Income Homebuilders
In the second blog in the series, the authors focus on the importance of using a retail distribution market systems lens to gain insights...
Sheldon Yoder
Oct 12, 20237 min read
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The MSDHub Blog Series is authored by respected implementers and donors of market systems projects globally.
MSD Hub’s main editor, Senior Systems Specialist, Michael Field, from the Vikāra Institute, provides introductory commentary on each blog post.
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