AIVs

Enhancing Productivity, Post-harvest Management, and Market Access of African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya

Led by Mumina Shibia , Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
If productivity and marketability of AIVs increases, and if AIVS are mostly produced by women, and if AIVs are nutritious can also be resilient in climate change, then research improving productivity (preharvest and postharvest) and marketability of AIVs will improve community nutrition and promote gender equity.
Kenya
Promoting technology for horticulture production as adaptation to climate change in Guatemala.

Promoting technology for horticulture production as adaptation to climate change in Guatemala

Led by Rolando Cifuentes, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG)
The overall objective of this project is to develop and validate appropriate agricultural technologies adapted to CC for small holders in the highlands of Guatemala where poverty, malnutrition, lack of opportunities and migration especially to the USA prevails among people of different ethnic Mayan groups.
Guatemala
Promoting Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Market Access in Guatemala

Promoting Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Market Access in Guatemala

Led by José Salvador Vega Prado Leiva, Acceso Organization
Through the Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Market Access Project, Acceso will work with the Rafael Landívar University (URL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cattle in Guatemala (MAGA) to lead operations research seeking to catalyze sustainable linkages to established niche markets and increase incomes for farmers.
Guatemala
Promoting Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Market Access in Guatemala

Promoting Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Market Access in Guatemala

Led by José Salvador Vega Prado Leiva, Acceso Organization
Through the Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Market Access Project, Acceso will work with the Rafael Landívar University (URL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cattle in Guatemala (MAGA) to lead operations research seeking to catalyze sustainable linkages to established niche markets and increase incomes for farmers.
Guatemala
Enhancing the production and consumption of AIVs to improve diets in Ghana and Mali

Enhancing the production and consumption of AIVs to improve diets in Ghana and Mali

Led by Gloria Essilfie , University of Ghana
This project aims to improve nutrition in Ghanaians and Malians through diet diversification by valorizing indigenous fruits and vegetables and promoting their consumption. This will be achieved through an assessment of value chain to profile and identify cultural properties of indigenous fruits and vegetables to understand regional demand and supply, characterize them in terms of agronomic practices, nutritional composition, postharvest practices and value addition potential.
Ghana, Mali
Enhancing the production and consumption of AIVs to improve diets in Ghana and Mali

Enhancing the production and consumption of AIVs to improve diets in Ghana and Mali

Led by Gloria Essilfie , University of Ghana
This project aims to improve nutrition in Ghanaians and Malians through diet diversification by valorizing indigenous fruits and vegetables and promoting their consumption. This will be achieved through an assessment of value chain to profile and identify cultural properties of indigenous fruits and vegetables to understand regional demand and supply, characterize them in terms of agronomic practices, nutritional composition, postharvest practices and value addition potential.
Ghana, Mali
Engaging youths in the production of indigenous vegetables and fruits in Nigeria

Engaging youths in the production of indigenous vegetables and fruits in Nigeria

Led by Atanda Oladejo, Obafemi Awolowo University
Researching youth engagement with school gardens focused on indigenous vegetables, and necessary input supply chains to support indigenous vegetable production, to increase youth engagement in indigenous vegetable agriculture and reduce poor nutrition related outcomes among youths.
Nigeria
Sorting and grading of harvested tomatoes in Kajiado County.

Determining the trade-offs between short and long horticulture value chains in Kenya

Led by Willis Owino, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
By increasing understandings of the trade-offs of short horticulture value chains versus long horticulture value chains, and the impact of ICT on those value chains, researchers will have critical information to guide where future interventions and innovations should be focused to achieve specific types of outcomes and avoid unintended harmful impacts from scaling/interventions. Furthermore, by collecting this data, researchers outside of Kenya can use the findings and approach as a framework for replication
Kenya
Developing innovative horticulture technologies for small-scale women farmers in Uganda

Developing innovative horticulture technologies for small-scale women farmers in Uganda

Led by Robert Kajobe, Muni University
The theory of change in this project identified the problem of losses in horticultural crops during the pre-harvest, post-harvest and marketing stages in Uganda. The overall goal of this project is to increase financial independence and improve the livelihoods of small-scale women vegetable farmers. To achieve this goal, we will evaluate different agronomic practices for reduced loss; evaluate different postharvest practices for reduced loss in vegetables; and evaluate different marketing and market access strategies for vegetables by women farmers. This is expected to lead to improved household nutrition status; increased sales of vegetables; and increased household income status of small-scale women farmers.
Uganda
Advancing Technology based on Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture Needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Advancing technology based on urban and peri-urban horticulture needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Led by Kalyani Tripathi
The rapid urbanization in Bangladesh and Nepal is making the city dwellers vulnerable for their food and nutrition and primarily dependent on the supply chain from the rural areas. Also, it has been a challenge to enhance the production of fruits and vegetables in urban and peri-urban areas due to the limited supply of quality planting materials. By addressing these issues can contribute to increasing urban communities’ access to demand-based nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, which can contribute to achieving food and nutritional security.
Nepal, Bangladesh
Advancing Technology based on Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture Needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Advancing technology based on urban and peri-urban horticulture needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Led by Kalyani Tripathi
The rapid urbanization in Bangladesh and Nepal is making the city dwellers vulnerable for their food and nutrition and primarily dependent on the supply chain from the rural areas. Also, it has been a challenge to enhance the production of fruits and vegetables in urban and peri-urban areas due to the limited supply of quality planting materials. By addressing these issues can contribute to increasing urban communities’ access to demand-based nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, which can contribute to achieving food and nutritional security.
Nepal, Bangladesh
Determining the Cost Benefit of Integrating Horticulture into Staple Crop Production in Kenya

Determining the cost-benefit of integrating horticulture into staple crop production in Kenya

Led by Solomon Walelign, International Center for Evaluation and Development
The project undertakes several activities for informed and successful shift of smallholder female farmers from staple to horticulture production. The activities include exploratory and scoping exercise, data collection instrument development and coding, sampling, and data collection and management. The activities will enable the project to do several analyses that enable assessment of (i) costs and benefits of horticulture production relative to horticulture production, (ii) changes in land used for horticultural production, (iii) trade-offs – in terms of social and economic outcomes (e.g., income, employment, nutrition, and gender) – associated with shifting to horticulture production and (iv) local community or market responses to the shift to horticulture production.
Kenya
Weighing passion fruit for sale in Rwanda

Engaging and understanding informal mid-stream actors in Nigeria and Rwanda

Led by Youri Dijkxhoorn
To enhance food system outcomes, such as accessible and affordable healthy diets, improvements in the mid-stream are needed. This raises the question: how can informal mid-stream actors be involved in addressing value chain challenges that impact the affordability and availability of healthy and safe foods for urban consumers? This project sets out to answer those questions.
Nigeria, Rwanda
Weighing passion fruit for sale in Rwanda

Engaging and understanding informal mid-stream actors in Nigeria and Rwanda

Led by Youri Dijkxhoorn
To enhance food system outcomes, such as accessible and affordable healthy diets, improvements in the mid-stream are needed. This raises the question: how can informal mid-stream actors be involved in addressing value chain challenges that impact the affordability and availability of healthy and safe foods for urban consumers? This project sets out to answer those questions.
Nigeria, Rwanda
Empowering Young Horticulture Researchers in Honduras

Empowering Young Horticulture Researchers in Honduras

Led by Julio López Montes, Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano
A fellowship-oriented program that provides seed funding to higher-education students in Honduras to conduct small-scale research projects across the horticulture value chain. Students will be guided through a grant drafting and submission training program to increase capacity in applying for funding. Awarded applications will receive funding and expertise to implement research projects.
Honduras
Young woman interviewing old woman in sparse room in light from doorway

Empowering women through horticulture in Honduras

Led by Janelle Larson, The Pennsylvania State University

In the Western Highlands of Honduras, families struggle to survive on subsistence agriculture. Poverty and malnutrition rates are high, and take a particularly heavy toll on women and children.

Honduras
Close-up on basket of tomatoes at a market in Rwanda

Reducing postharvest losses in Rwanda

Led by Gurbinder S. Gill, Agribusiness Associates Inc.

In 2014, the Rwandan National Horticulture Strategy estimates that 1 million rural households in Rwanda grow horticultural commodities, "principally for home use and sale.

Rwanda
Close-up on basket of tomatoes at a market in Rwanda

Reducing postharvest losses in Rwanda

Led by Gurbinder S. Gill, Agribusiness Associates Inc.

In 2014, the Rwandan National Horticulture Strategy estimates that 1 million rural households in Rwanda grow horticultural commodities, "principally for home use and sale.

Rwanda
Close-up on basket of tomatoes at a market in Rwanda

Reducing postharvest losses in Rwanda

Led by Gurbinder S. Gill, Agribusiness Associates Inc.

In 2014, the Rwandan National Horticulture Strategy estimates that 1 million rural households in Rwanda grow horticultural commodities, "principally for home use and sale.

Rwanda
Representative shows jar of seeds and drying beads to television reporter in Thailand.

Implementing drying beads for seeds in Asia and Africa

Led by Kent Bradford, University of California, Davis

Improving the ability of smallholder farmers to access high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing farmer productivity and incomes.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda
Representative shows jar of seeds and drying beads to television reporter in Thailand.

Implementing drying beads for seeds in Asia and Africa

Led by Kent Bradford, University of California, Davis

Improving the ability of smallholder farmers to access high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing farmer productivity and incomes.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda
Representative shows jar of seeds and drying beads to television reporter in Thailand.

Implementing drying beads for seeds in Asia and Africa

Led by Kent Bradford, University of California, Davis

Improving the ability of smallholder farmers to access high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing farmer productivity and incomes.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda
Woman pets pig in the shade

Investigating integrated vegetable-livestock systems in Cambodia

Led by Jessie Vipham, Kansas State University
The goal of this project is to understand how integrated animal-horticulture systems are most feasible for smallholders by rigorously addressing — through interdisciplinary research — the potential of these systems with regard to sustainable production capacity, income generation, and gender dimensions.
Cambodia
Woman pets pig in the shade

Investigating integrated vegetable-livestock systems in Cambodia

Led by Jessie Vipham, Kansas State University
The goal of this project is to understand how integrated animal-horticulture systems are most feasible for smallholders by rigorously addressing — through interdisciplinary research — the potential of these systems with regard to sustainable production capacity, income generation, and gender dimensions.
Cambodia
Woman pets pig in the shade

Investigating integrated vegetable-livestock systems in Cambodia

Led by Jessie Vipham, Kansas State University
The goal of this project is to understand how integrated animal-horticulture systems are most feasible for smallholders by rigorously addressing — through interdisciplinary research — the potential of these systems with regard to sustainable production capacity, income generation, and gender dimensions.
Cambodia
Man holds up drying beads to teach crowd with banner DAI USAID logos in background.

Scaling up seed-drying technology in Bangladesh

Led by Johan Van Asbrouck, Rhino Research

Providing smallholder farmers access to high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing productivity and incomes.

Bangladesh
Man holds up drying beads to teach crowd with banner DAI USAID logos in background.

Scaling up seed-drying technology in Bangladesh

Led by Johan Van Asbrouck, Rhino Research

Providing smallholder farmers access to high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing productivity and incomes.

Bangladesh
Agricultural researchers pull back nets from row of vegetable plants in Kenya.

Demonstrating nets and floating row covers in Kenya and Benin

Led by William "Vance" Baird, Michigan State University

Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has resulted in an increase in demand for food, and fruit and vegetable consumption in the region remains 22-82% below the intake value threshold of 400 g/d

Kenya, Benin
Agricultural researchers pull back nets from row of vegetable plants in Kenya.

Demonstrating nets and floating row covers in Kenya and Benin

Led by William "Vance" Baird, Michigan State University

Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has resulted in an increase in demand for food, and fruit and vegetable consumption in the region remains 22-82% below the intake value threshold of 400 g/d

Kenya, Benin
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon
AIVs

Enhancing Productivity, Post-harvest Management, and Market Access of African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya

Led by Mumina Shibia , Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
If productivity and marketability of AIVs increases, and if AIVS are mostly produced by women, and if AIVs are nutritious can also be resilient in climate change, then research improving productivity (preharvest and postharvest) and marketability of AIVs will improve community nutrition and promote gender equity.
Kenya
Promoting technology for horticulture production as adaptation to climate change in Guatemala.

Promoting technology for horticulture production as adaptation to climate change in Guatemala

Led by Rolando Cifuentes, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG)
The overall objective of this project is to develop and validate appropriate agricultural technologies adapted to CC for small holders in the highlands of Guatemala where poverty, malnutrition, lack of opportunities and migration especially to the USA prevails among people of different ethnic Mayan groups.
Guatemala
Promoting Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Market Access in Guatemala

Promoting Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Market Access in Guatemala

Led by José Salvador Vega Prado Leiva, Acceso Organization
Through the Small Farm Technologies for Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Market Access Project, Acceso will work with the Rafael Landívar University (URL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cattle in Guatemala (MAGA) to lead operations research seeking to catalyze sustainable linkages to established niche markets and increase incomes for farmers.
Guatemala
Enhancing the production and consumption of AIVs to improve diets in Ghana and Mali

Enhancing the production and consumption of AIVs to improve diets in Ghana and Mali

Led by Gloria Essilfie , University of Ghana
This project aims to improve nutrition in Ghanaians and Malians through diet diversification by valorizing indigenous fruits and vegetables and promoting their consumption. This will be achieved through an assessment of value chain to profile and identify cultural properties of indigenous fruits and vegetables to understand regional demand and supply, characterize them in terms of agronomic practices, nutritional composition, postharvest practices and value addition potential.
Ghana, Mali
Engaging youths in the production of indigenous vegetables and fruits in Nigeria

Engaging youths in the production of indigenous vegetables and fruits in Nigeria

Led by Atanda Oladejo, Obafemi Awolowo University
Researching youth engagement with school gardens focused on indigenous vegetables, and necessary input supply chains to support indigenous vegetable production, to increase youth engagement in indigenous vegetable agriculture and reduce poor nutrition related outcomes among youths.
Nigeria
Sorting and grading of harvested tomatoes in Kajiado County.

Determining the trade-offs between short and long horticulture value chains in Kenya

Led by Willis Owino, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
By increasing understandings of the trade-offs of short horticulture value chains versus long horticulture value chains, and the impact of ICT on those value chains, researchers will have critical information to guide where future interventions and innovations should be focused to achieve specific types of outcomes and avoid unintended harmful impacts from scaling/interventions. Furthermore, by collecting this data, researchers outside of Kenya can use the findings and approach as a framework for replication
Kenya
Developing innovative horticulture technologies for small-scale women farmers in Uganda

Developing innovative horticulture technologies for small-scale women farmers in Uganda

Led by Robert Kajobe, Muni University
The theory of change in this project identified the problem of losses in horticultural crops during the pre-harvest, post-harvest and marketing stages in Uganda. The overall goal of this project is to increase financial independence and improve the livelihoods of small-scale women vegetable farmers. To achieve this goal, we will evaluate different agronomic practices for reduced loss; evaluate different postharvest practices for reduced loss in vegetables; and evaluate different marketing and market access strategies for vegetables by women farmers. This is expected to lead to improved household nutrition status; increased sales of vegetables; and increased household income status of small-scale women farmers.
Uganda
Advancing Technology based on Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture Needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Advancing technology based on urban and peri-urban horticulture needs in Bangladesh and Nepal

Led by Kalyani Tripathi
The rapid urbanization in Bangladesh and Nepal is making the city dwellers vulnerable for their food and nutrition and primarily dependent on the supply chain from the rural areas. Also, it has been a challenge to enhance the production of fruits and vegetables in urban and peri-urban areas due to the limited supply of quality planting materials. By addressing these issues can contribute to increasing urban communities’ access to demand-based nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, which can contribute to achieving food and nutritional security.
Nepal, Bangladesh
Determining the Cost Benefit of Integrating Horticulture into Staple Crop Production in Kenya

Determining the cost-benefit of integrating horticulture into staple crop production in Kenya

Led by Solomon Walelign, International Center for Evaluation and Development
The project undertakes several activities for informed and successful shift of smallholder female farmers from staple to horticulture production. The activities include exploratory and scoping exercise, data collection instrument development and coding, sampling, and data collection and management. The activities will enable the project to do several analyses that enable assessment of (i) costs and benefits of horticulture production relative to horticulture production, (ii) changes in land used for horticultural production, (iii) trade-offs – in terms of social and economic outcomes (e.g., income, employment, nutrition, and gender) – associated with shifting to horticulture production and (iv) local community or market responses to the shift to horticulture production.
Kenya
Weighing passion fruit for sale in Rwanda

Engaging and understanding informal mid-stream actors in Nigeria and Rwanda

Led by Youri Dijkxhoorn
To enhance food system outcomes, such as accessible and affordable healthy diets, improvements in the mid-stream are needed. This raises the question: how can informal mid-stream actors be involved in addressing value chain challenges that impact the affordability and availability of healthy and safe foods for urban consumers? This project sets out to answer those questions.
Nigeria, Rwanda
Empowering Young Horticulture Researchers in Honduras

Empowering Young Horticulture Researchers in Honduras

Led by Julio López Montes, Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano
A fellowship-oriented program that provides seed funding to higher-education students in Honduras to conduct small-scale research projects across the horticulture value chain. Students will be guided through a grant drafting and submission training program to increase capacity in applying for funding. Awarded applications will receive funding and expertise to implement research projects.
Honduras
Young woman interviewing old woman in sparse room in light from doorway

Empowering women through horticulture in Honduras

Led by Janelle Larson, The Pennsylvania State University

In the Western Highlands of Honduras, families struggle to survive on subsistence agriculture. Poverty and malnutrition rates are high, and take a particularly heavy toll on women and children.

Honduras
Close-up on basket of tomatoes at a market in Rwanda

Reducing postharvest losses in Rwanda

Led by Gurbinder S. Gill, Agribusiness Associates Inc.

In 2014, the Rwandan National Horticulture Strategy estimates that 1 million rural households in Rwanda grow horticultural commodities, "principally for home use and sale.

Rwanda
Representative shows jar of seeds and drying beads to television reporter in Thailand.

Implementing drying beads for seeds in Asia and Africa

Led by Kent Bradford, University of California, Davis

Improving the ability of smallholder farmers to access high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing farmer productivity and incomes.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda
Woman pets pig in the shade

Investigating integrated vegetable-livestock systems in Cambodia

Led by Jessie Vipham, Kansas State University
The goal of this project is to understand how integrated animal-horticulture systems are most feasible for smallholders by rigorously addressing — through interdisciplinary research — the potential of these systems with regard to sustainable production capacity, income generation, and gender dimensions.
Cambodia
Man holds up drying beads to teach crowd with banner DAI USAID logos in background.

Scaling up seed-drying technology in Bangladesh

Led by Johan Van Asbrouck, Rhino Research

Providing smallholder farmers access to high-quality seeds of improved varieties of horticultural crops is fundamental to increasing productivity and incomes.

Bangladesh
Agricultural researchers pull back nets from row of vegetable plants in Kenya.

Demonstrating nets and floating row covers in Kenya and Benin

Led by William "Vance" Baird, Michigan State University

Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has resulted in an increase in demand for food, and fruit and vegetable consumption in the region remains 22-82% below the intake value threshold of 400 g/d

Kenya, Benin
Trainers talk to farmers about maintaining freshness and proper postharvest handling of various vegetable crops after harvest.

Opening a regional postharvest training center in Tanzania

Led by Diane Barrett, University of California, Davis
A year of training for postharvest experts from Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Gabon culminates in the establishment of a model Postharvest and Training Services Center in Tanzania--which the new experts emulate in their home countries.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Gabon