As a graduate student, Pete Nelson of North Carolina State University was selected to participate as a Trellis Fund Fellow on a Trellis Fund project in Kenya in 2017.
The Horticulture Innovation Lab team has selected nine graduate students to support Trellis Fund projects in Africa and Asia in 2017. Through their work on the Trellis Fund projects, the graduate students will apply their agricultural expertise to support local organizations as they work together to help smallholder farmers better grow fruits and vegetables.