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Visiting Cambodia: Conservation agriculture and marketing by motorbike

As director of the Horticulture Innovation Lab, I traveled to Cambodia with researcher Manuel Reyes to launch a spin-off project related to his earlier research in Cambodia on conservation agriculture and drip irrigation for women vegetable farmers.

Lizann Wheeler talking to group around the brick-based cooling chamber.

Visiting Tanzania: Postharvest Training and Services Center

Graduate student researcher Elyssa Lewis and I were invited to observe a refresher training course in Tanzania with the World Food Logistics Organization and the TOPS Program. The visit included evaluation of a project that trained experts in postharvest handling and established a Postharvest Training and Services Center.

Leafy vegetables grow in a Cambodian field with conservation agriculture practices and drip irrigation beneath the mulch.

14 steps to growing vegetables with conservation agriculture and drip irrigation

Manuel Reyes shares directions for how farmers can set up and use conservation agriculture practices to grow vegetables.

Woman holds jar of drying beads and seeds, speaking into TV microphone held by a reporter

How drying beads work, in a new SciDev.Net video

Reporter Giovanni Ortolani visited with Horticulture Innovation Lab partners in Bangkok, Thailand, recently to learn about how farmers in humid climates can better save seed using drying beads.

Jars of seed with zeolite drying beads, Horticulture Innovation Lab

‘Dry chain’ partnership helps farmers store seed better

A partnership between university scientists and a private technology company has sprouted both new concepts and new tools that can help vegetable farmers in developing countries access better seeds.

Kate Scow, soil science professor at UC Davis, met with farmers and research partners in Uganda recently to begin a newly funded project focused on small-scale irrigation for vegetable growers.

U.S. scientists begin new horticulture projects in developing countries

Agricultural scientists from five land-grant universities have been awarded $4.2 million to research ways to improve livelihoods for smallholder fruit and vegetable farmers in developing countries.

Bob Johnson, a UC Davis graduate student, worked with farmers in Kenya on potato production, for a previous Trellis Fund project.

New Trellis Fund projects matched to students

Fourth round of Trellis Fund projects announced

The Horticulture Innovation Lab has awarded 14 new Trellis Fund projects, led by organizations in nine countries with technical support provided by grad studen

Sean Kearney, then a UC Davis graduate student, interviews farmers in Uganda for a project with Dr. Kate Scow during the Horticulture Innovation Lab’s first five years.

Five more years for the Horticulture Innovation Lab

A new $18.75 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development will boost international fruit and vegetable research led by the University of California, Davis, extending the Horticulture Innovation Lab research program for five more years.

Kelsey Barale takes notes during an interview with a farmer

Barale honored with BIFAD Student Award for Scientific Excellence

UC Davis graduate student Kelsey Barale was honored today in Des Moines, Iowa, at a public meeting of a U.S. government advisory board in advance of World Food Prize activities.

Program name change: Horticulture Innovation Lab

In 2014, the program originally called "Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Hort CRSP)" was renamed "Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture" (Horticulture Innovation Lab, for short).

Horticulture Innovation Lab offers research grants on nutrition, postharvest, gender

Horticulture Innovation Lab issues multiple calls for proposals

The Horticulture Innovation Lab has announced several new funding opportunities for collaborations between U.S. universities and organizations in developing countries to address needs of smallholder fruit and vegetable farmers.

Women harvesting leafy vegetables in a farm field.

Growing the science behind nutritious, leafy vegetables

An international team of researchers with the Horticulture Innovation Lab has been strengthening the value chain of African indigenous vegetables — with nutrition always in mind.

Elana accepts award plaque from USAID leader, American flag in background

Graduate student receives BIFAD award for international work

Elana Peach-Fine, a recent UC Davis graduate, was honored by Raj Shah, chief administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development at a BIFAD meeting, Jan. 30 in Washington D.C.

Engaging tomorrow's agricultural researchers in international development

Not vacation, summer classes or lab work — some U.S. graduate students will be able to answer the classic back-to-school question, “What did you do this summer?” with stories of working abroad on agricultural development projects.

Horticulture CRSP launches third Regional Center of Innovation

With the launch of a new center in Kenya, the Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program has successfully opened three centers worldwide dedicated to serving as hubs for horticulture-related activities in nearby developing countries.

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