Trellis

News articles and blog posts about the Horticulture Innovation Lab's Trellis Fund, which connects organizations in developing countries with U.S. graduate students who have agricultural expertise. Together, they collaborate on short-term projects to address horticultural challenges faced by local farmers, generating benefits for the farmers, students and in-country institutions. Visit the main Trellis Fund webpage for more information.

UC Davis graduate student in a demonstration garden with amaranth plants

Students selected for projects in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Nepal, Cambodia

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.

grad students working together on a field trial in Nepal

Grad students: Apply for international ag experience with Trellis Fund

The Horticulture Innovation Lab is now recruiting graduate students with agricultural expertise to participate in nine new Trellis Fund projects in Africa and Asia.

Nine new Trellis Fund projects awarded

The Horticulture Innovation Lab has announced nine new projects led by organizations in Africa and Asia as part of its Trellis Fund program.

Ugandan farmer holds a tomato in a tomato patch, next to her a sign that reads "organic tomato growing demonstration site by eco agric uganda funded by HORTCRSP"

Thanks from Uganda: Why the Trellis Fund matters

We recently received an email from one of the first organizations to receive Trellis funding, a reminder of how big of a difference this small grant can make. The email from Uganda started with:

Elyssa Lewis speaking at a podium with USAID and UC Davis logos

Moving beyond the computer screen at our annual meeting

Elyssa Lewis, UC Davis graduate student, shares insights on the value of attending the Horticulture Innovation Lab's 2016 annual meeting in Cambodia.

Paudel stands behind two students that work on computers

Students help students learn state-of-the-art science

In a classroom in Ghana, graduate student Dev Paudel from the University of Florida bent over computers with students and research assistants as they learned the basics of R, a free, open-source programming language for statistical analysis that he had installed on the computers earlier that week.