Resilience | Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture

Developing innovative horticulture technologies for small-scale women farmers in Uganda

Developing innovative horticulture technologies for improved income and livelihoods among women small-scale producers in Uganda

Led by Robert Kajobe, Muni University

Through identification of practices to reduce pre- and post-harvest losses, along with effective marketing and market access strategies of vegetables, this project will improve household nutrition, increase sales, and elevate the household income status of women small-scale vegetable producers.

Uganda

Small-scale producers in tomato greenhouse.

Determining the trade-offs between short and long horticulture value chains in Kenya

Led by Willis Owino, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

A project focused on the impacts of long and short horticultural value chains on nutrition, economic and social outcomes, and the utilization of information communication technologies (ICTs) within these value chains, to determine the interventions and innovations required to achieve specific outcomes and avoid harmful unintended scaling outcomes.

Kenya

Woman small-scale producer with woman researcher in field of corn and other vegetable horticultural crops.

Determining the cost-benefit of integrating horticulture into staple crop production in Kenya

Led by Kwadwo Danso-Mensah, International Center for Evaluation and Development , University of Ghana

Focused on a successful transition for women small-scale producers in their shift from staple to horticulture production, this project examines the trade-offs across nutritious diet, income, land use and time availability, for small-scale producers in Kenya.

Kenya

Advancing technology based on urban and peri-urban horticulture needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Led by Kalyani Tripathi, Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU)

This project focuses on enhancing urban and peri-urban community access to nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, while creating employment opportunities for the local community, and promoting women and youth entrepreneurship development.

Nepal, Bangladesh

Weighing passion fruit for sale in Rwanda

Engaging and understanding informal mid-stream actors in Nigeria and Rwanda

Led by Youri Dijkxhoorn

To improve food system outcomes, such as accessible and affordable healthy diets, this project explores the role of mid-stream actors in alleviating value chain challenges that impact the affordability and availability of healthy and safe foods for urban consumers.

Nigeria, Rwanda

Improving outreach methods to small-scale fruit and vegetable farmers in Latin America

Led by Jeffrey LeJeune, The Ohio State University

This project forms an international team of researchers and extension experts to gather preliminary information about current extension methodologies used in Latin America.

Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru

Developing energy solutions for horticultural production in Honduras and Thailand

Led by Kurt Kornbluth, University of California, Davis , UC Davis D-Lab

Among the most promising disruptive technologies for application to horticulture are those that address the uses of energy in the production, marketing, and processing of horticultural crops.

Honduras, Thailand

Integrating Rooibos tea farmers with fair-trade markets in South Africa

Led by Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University

The rapid growth of Fair Trade certification offers the potential for empowering small-scale farmers via access to high-value markets and support for community development and sustainable prod

South Africa

Farmer and government representative examine a large flower stem.

Expanding the floral industry in Honduras

Led by Alan Bennett, University of California, Davis

Led by Alan Bennett of UC Davis, this international team supports the ornamental business in Honduras as a means to drive development of a local high-value industry, increase trade, and develo

Honduras

Evaluating support for smallholder production of paprika and tomatoes in Zimbabwe

Led by Hans Christian Wien, Cornell University

Political unrest and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe in the first decade of the 21st Century has destroyed agricultural export industries and the country's emerging smallholder horticulture secto

Zimbabwe