Resilience | Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture

Woman chopping and weighing vegetables in a market in Guatemala

Developing training materials to improve postharvest practices in Honduras and Guatemala

Led by Jeff Brecht, University of Florida

Knowledge of postharvest handling practices necessary to satisfy market requirements limits the success of small-scale producers of horticultural crops to participate in the value chain at various

Honduras, Guatemala

Evaluating cooling and drying technologies in various climates in Tanzania, Ghana, Honduras, Guatemala, Thailand

Led by Lizanne Wheeler, World Food Logistics Organization

This research project is a series of studies comparing cool storage tools and solar dryer designs.

Honduras, Guatemala, Tanzania, Ghana, Thailand

Building regional capacity in Phytophthora diagnostics in Latin America

Led by Jean Ristaino, North Carolina State University

Plant disease is a limiting factor in agricultural production in Latin America. Plant pathogens cause losses

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico

Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis

A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.

Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon

Group gathers around Darcy Boellstorff as she plugs her computer into a GIS system near Mzimba.

Establishing GIS data for horticultural projects in Malawi

Led by Darcy Boellstorff, Bridgewater State University

Led by Darcy Boellstorff of Bridgewater State University, this project's international team is focused on acquiring needed geographic information for use in a geographic information system (GI

Malawi

American and Kenyan men lead a farming extension class with poster, outside in Kenya

Testing a gender-tailored extension model in Kenya

Led by Steven Fennimore, University of California, Davis

Leadership development is key to sustained improvements in agricultural production in developing countries particularly in the rural areas.

Kenya

Training plant diagnosticians across Latin America

Led by Jean Ristaino, North Carolina State University

Plant disease is a limiting factor in agricultural production in Latin America.

Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico

Evaluating local tomato and chili varieties for disease resistance in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador

Led by James Nienhuis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This project brings together the technology and biological capital of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the World Vegetable Center, based Taiwan, with the managerial and technical skills of t

Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua

Women seated on a mat sort through labeled packets of seeds

Strengthening indigenous seed systems in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam

Led by Rick Bates, The Pennsylvania State University

Informal seed systems provide access to locally adapted indigenous crops and constitute an essential component of sustainable production for resource-poor farmers.

Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam

Professor, staff member and student gather around machine in a workshop setting.

Designing for horticulture development with D-Labs in Honduras and Thailand

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

Innovative horticultural technologies hold potential to aid in reducing poverty, improving nutrition and health, and improving sustainability and profitability of horticulture activities.

Honduras, Thailand