This presentation was delivered by Horticulture Innovation Lab director, Beth Mitcham, and describes the program's goal: to improve the capacity of horticulture to bring people out of poverty and improve their nutritional status while empowering women and the most vulnerable people. It includes five pillars and six objectives.

Areas of interest for the next five years include:

1. Postharvest and marketing
2. Food safety
3. Nutrition
4. Production
5. Scaling
6. Capacity building
7. Novel research

This presentation was part of the Horticulture Innovation Lab 2014 Annual Meeting, which took place March 17-21, 2014 in Hotel Real Intercontinental, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.