This is an informative manual on preparation of indigenous vegetables in recipes, while highlighting their high, nutritious value.

By valorizing indigenous fruits and vegetables and promoting their consumption, the project seeks to improve nutrition in Ghana and Mali through diet diversification, ultimately increasing production and access to nutrient-dense indigenous fruits and vegetables. This report provides key findings in the the value chains supplying these products.

The baseline survey was conducted to assess the current state of horticultural activities, available resources, and challenges faced by the communities, and to provide a foundation for project planning and implementation.

Executive Summary A total of 15 projects were successfully awarded by the Horticulture Innovation Lab during the reporting period, with 93% of sub-awarded funds going to academic institutions based in West and East Africa, Central America, and South Asia.

Executive Summary The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) works with and promotes local leadership in communities across the globe to advance horticultural and social innovations for nutrition and fi

Executive Summary The Horticulture Innovations Lab’s global research network advances fruit and vegetable innovations, empowering smallholder farmers to earn more income while better nourishing their communities.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Horticulture Innovation Lab improves how smallholder farmers grow and sell fruit and vegetable crops, with research activities targeting all stages of the horticultural value chain from seed systems to marketing.

This paper presents several innovations in postharvest management introduced in LMICs that have made impacts; however, more comprehensive and systemic impacts are required. For example, we focused on smallholder farmers, but medium-sized operations in LMICs, along with the formation of cooperatives or associations among smallholder farmers, can be conduits for adopting technologies with higher capital costs. Ultimately, greater cohesion and urgency is needed among policymakers, researchers, private industry, sociologists, agro-economists, public sector, local-leaders, among others, to meet this call to action to finally make significant reductions in postharvest losses in LMICs.

This study used a two-part telephonic study comprising of the C-SCAN and HFIAS survey tools and was conducted in urban and rural Kenya. This study aimed to examine urban and rural differences in the perceived influence of COVID-19 on (1) agricultural production and livelihood; and (2) food environment attributes (food access, accessibility, price) and diets. Furthermore, this paper examined whether access to different environments (e.g., wild, cultivated, informal, and formal) impacted food security. We hypothesize that during the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents will report decreased access to both the natural and built food environment negatively influencing food security.

This webinar conceptual frameworks and turning theory into proposed methods. This was the fifth in the Innovating and Scaling for Social Tranformation Professional Series, held live on March 21, 2023.