Information Resources

As part of their research process, Horticulture Innovation Lab partners create fact sheets, presentations, posters, journal articles, and other information products to share with farmers, academics, and other participants in their projects. These horticulture resources are sorted by country, value chain part, type of information, crop, and other category tags. We hope you find these information products useful in your work with fruits, vegetables, and farmers.

Title slide from Valerie Davis's Horticulture for Nutrition Presentation with photos of farmers in vegetable fields

Panel: Leveraging nutrition impacts from horticulture research

A panel focused on leveraging nutrition impacts from horticulture research brought together professionals for a lively discussion about the ways that food systems can be transformed to promote nutrition during the Horticulture Research for Development Conference, "C

Value Chain:

Nutrition

Title slide from Rose Koenig's presentation with title "Strengthening Institutional Capacity to Catalyze Change"

Panel: Meeting tomorrow's horticulture needs through university engagement

A panel focused on university engagement to meet horticulture needs brought together academics and university leaders for a powerful discussion at the Horticulture Research for Development Conference, "Colorful Harvest: From Feeding to Nourishing a Growing

Value Chain:

Training and extension

Seed production basics for African indigenous vegetables

Seed production basics for African indigenous vegetables This informational brochure about African indigenous vegetable seed production was created by David Byrnes and Jim Simon of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey for the Horticulture Inno

Country: Kenya | Zambia

Value Chain:

Seed systems and germplasm

Journal article: Leveraging shared interests to advance sustainable food safety systems in Cambodia

This journal article, published in the Journal of Rural and Community Development in 2018, was coauthored by Karen LeGrand, Borarin Buntong, Thort Chuong, Thong Kong, G. David Miller, Cary J. Trexler and Glenn M. Young.

Country: Cambodia

Value Chain:

Training and extension

Penn State News - photo with women farmers and headline: Farmer field school addresses food insecurity, gender inequality in Honduras

Farmer field schools highlighted in Penn State News

This article from Penn State News, published on Aug. 27, 2018, explores farmer field schools in Honduras with Penn State researchers who are working to promote gender equity and food security.

Country: Honduras

Value Chain:

Solar drying adds value to crop surplus

Technologies for Horticultural Development fact sheet Solar drying adds value to crop surplus Fruits and vegetables are highly profitable commodities for both small- and large-scale farmers.

Value Chain:

Postharvest practices

DryCard™ — A low-cost dryness indicator for dried products

This article about the DryCard was written by James Thompson, Michael Reid, Lucia Felix, Irwin Donis-Gonzalez, Bertha Mjawa, and Jane Ambuko and published October 2017 in the Journal AIMS Agriculture and Food.

Value Chain:

Postharvest practices

Title page of Rapid Screening of Toxic Glycoalkaloids and Micronutrition in Edible Nightshades

Rapid screening of toxic glycoalkaloids and micronutrition in edible nightshades (Solanum spp.)

This article published in the Journal of Food and Drug Analysis in April, 2018 was co-authored by Bo Yuan, David Byrnes, Daniel Giurleo, Thomas Villani, James E. Simon and Qingli Wu.

Country: Kenya | Zambia

Value Chain:

Nutrition

First page of "Seeing below the surface" journal article

Seeing below the surface: Making soil processes visible to Ugandan smallholder farmers through a constructivist, experiential extension approach

This journal article on agricultural extension approaches that can better connect smallholder farmers and their existing soil knowledge with scientific concepts and novel practices was written by Lauren Pincus, Heidi Ballard, Emily Harris and Kate Scow of the University of California, Davis,

Country: Uganda

Value Chain:

Title slide: Gender and agriculture in Western Honduras: lessons from the women in agriculture network Honduras project

Gender and agriculture in Western Honduras: Lessons learned (RSS 2017)

Paige Castellanos of Penn State shared this presentation at the Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio in 2017.

Country: Honduras

Value Chain:

Country

Value Chain Part

Information Type

Crop

Bangladesh
Benin
Bolivia
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Chile
Costa Rica
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Ethiopia
France
Gabon
Ghana
Guatemala
Guinea
Haiti
Honduras
India
Kenya
Malawi
Mali
Mexico
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Panama
Peru
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Uganda
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Poster
Presentation
Fact sheet
Journal article
Informative website
How-to Manual
Curriculum
News publication
Policy brief
Program materials
Radio segment
Report
Training
Video
White paper
Worksheet
2019 annual meeting
2018 annual meeting
2017 annual meeting
2016 annual meeting
2015 annual meeting
2014 annual meeting
2013 annual meeting
2011 annual meeting
2010 inception workshop
2014 Key Opportunities for Nutrition
2014 Postharvest in Horticulture
2016 Symposium on Horticultural Science
2017 Aligning the Food System for Fruits and Vegetables
2019 Hort4Dev webinar series

Apricot
Flowers or ornamental crops
French bean (green bean)
Livestock
Mango
Papaya
Peppers
Pineapple
Plantain
Potato
Rooibos tea
Vegetable amaranth
Vegetables
African nightshade
Spider plant
Moringa
Tomatoes
Orange-fleshed sweet potato
Nakati
African indigenous vegetables
African eggplant