Our resilience efforts empower communities to escape the cycles of drought and famine that politically and economically devastate entire regions. For example, in Malawi, where farmers suffer from extended droughts season after season, USAID is teaching 200,000 people new ways of managing their livelihoods and changing their agricultural practices through a small foot-powered pump that pulls water from nearby rivers and streams to irrigate the land. And USAID is also strongly positioned in fragile countries, where extreme poverty will affect the most people in the years to come.