Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture

Launch of three new regionally-led initiatives in South Asia, focused on increasing horticulture production efficiency and empowering youth; increasing production in urban and peri-urban environments, reducing the impact of soil-borne pathogens on tomatoes and peppers, and engaging youth in profit-oriented horticulture production systems.

Launch of three new regionally-led initiatives in Central America, focused on determining appropriate climate smart agricultural technologies, with specific aims to increase the nutrition and income of small-holder women farmers.

Launch of three new regionally-led initiatives in West Africa, focused on improving the affordability and availability of healthy diets, and empowering young women smallholder farmers involved in African indigenous vegetable (AIV) production and sale, to have far-reaching nutrition and health benefits at the household level.

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture at the University of California, Davis, announces new 3.5-year portfolio comprising of regionally-led research initiatives across East and West Africa, Central America, and South Asia. Research initiatives will be managed by four Horticulture Innovation Lab Regional Hubs based at the International Center for Evaluation and Development (ICED), University of Ghana, Zamorano University, and FORWARD Nepal. 

Launch of four new regionally-led initiatives in East Africa, focused on addressing pre- and post-harvest management to reduce food waste and losses in vegetables, and improving the marketing of and access to vegetables through the empowerment of rural smallholder women farmers growing vegetables on a small-scale level.

In Nairobi, Kenya this past May 15 — 19, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture hosted the 2023 Feed the Future Innovation Labs Regional Partners Meeting, bringing to the fore, the global conversation on climate change and agricultural international development as well as lessons learned from the Horn of Africa's most devastating drought.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture is hiring a Program Officer, to provide entry-level support of management, administration, and international projects.

After a successful tenure of 31 years serving at the University of California, Davis, within the Department of Plant Sciences, Dr. Elizabeth J. Mitcham, has retired, effective June 30, 2023.

U.S. State Department Visit to UC Davis Hosted by UC Davis Feed the Future Innovation Labs by Archie Jarman

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Agricultural Innovation Systems with Expertise in Mixed Methods and Social Network Analysis.