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As part of their research process, Horticulture Innovation Lab partners create fact sheets, presentations, posters, journal articles, and other information products to share with farmers, academics, and other participants in their projects. These horticulture resources are sorted by country, value chain part, type of information, crop, and other category tags. We hope you find these information products useful in your work with fruits, vegetables, and farmers.

DryCard™ — A low-cost dryness indicator for dried products

This article about the DryCard was written by James Thompson, Michael Reid, Lucia Felix, Irwin Donis-Gonzalez, Bertha Mjawa, and Jane Ambuko and published October 2017 in the Journal AIMS Agriculture and Food.

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Postharvest practices

Title page of Rapid Screening of Toxic Glycoalkaloids and Micronutrition in Edible Nightshades

Rapid screening of toxic glycoalkaloids and micronutrition in edible nightshades (Solanum spp.)

This article published in the Journal of Food and Drug Analysis in April, 2018 was co-authored by Bo Yuan, David Byrnes, Daniel Giurleo, Thomas Villani, James E. Simon and Qingli Wu.

Country: Kenya | Zambia

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Nutrition

First page of "Seeing below the surface" journal article

Seeing below the surface: Making soil processes visible to Ugandan smallholder farmers through a constructivist, experiential extension approach

This journal article on agricultural extension approaches that can better connect smallholder farmers and their existing soil knowledge with scientific concepts and novel practices was written by Lauren Pincus, Heidi Ballard, Emily Harris and Kate Scow of the University of California, Davis,

Country: Uganda

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Title slide: Gender and agriculture in Western Honduras: lessons from the women in agriculture network Honduras project

Gender and agriculture in Western Honduras: Lessons learned (RSS 2017)

Paige Castellanos of Penn State shared this presentation at the Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio in 2017.

Country: Honduras

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Title page:Comparative analysis of two Cooling chambers zero energy for small-scale horticultural farmers

Análisis comparativo de dos tecnologías de enfriamiento evaporativo cero energía (with English summary)

This thesis which was written by Lizette Carolina Avecillas Ureña analyzes the cooling efficiency of two evaporative coolers. The thesis is primarily in Spanish and was presented at the Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano.

Country: Honduras

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Postharvest practices

Title Page: Ascorbic acid content in leaves of Nightshade (Solanum spp.) and spider plant (Cleome gynandra) varieties grown under different fertilizer regimes in western Kenya

Ascorbic acid content in leaves of nightshade and spider plant varieties grown under different fertilizer regimes in Western Kenya

Ascorbic acid content in leaves of Nightshade (Solanum spp.) and spider plant (Cleome gynandra) varieties grown under different fertilizer regimes in Western Kenya This journal article, published in the African Journal of Biotechnology on Feb

Country: Kenya

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Nutrition

title slide- Capacity building on produce postharvest management in Tanzania - UF, Sokoine, Kansas State, USAID, Horticulture Innovation Lab, UC Davis

Capacity building of produce postharvest management in Tanzania

Overview of project goals in Tanzania focused on supporting the development of postharvest curriculum at Sokoine University of Agriculture, building capacity for faculty there and better training students and agriculturists.

Country: Tanzania

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Title slide: Our resilient future is not written for us

Resilience in energy, cooling, horticulture innovations

Poonpipope Kasemsap discusses resilience and opportunities for innovation in relation to energy efficiency, including his team's work on a CoolBot cold room monitoring system.

Title Slide: Improving Nutrition and Income Generation with African Indigenous Vegetables: Selected Lessons Learned

Lessons learned from improving nutrition and income generation with African indigenous vegetables

This presentation, shared at the Horticulture Innovation Lab's 2018 annual meeting, details research that Jim Simon of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and his team are endeavoring to see how African indig

Country: Kenya | Zambia

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