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Inspiring students to help farmers in developing countries (Apply now!)

The Horticulture Innovation Lab is recruiting graduate students from four U.S. universities to take part in 15 new Trellis Fund projects in Africa and Asia.

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UH Manoa student helps with farmers’ first soil tests in Nepal

Editor’s note: Tiare Silvasy is a master’s student in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who participated in a Trellis Fund project led by th

5 ways Trellis Fund grants generate impact

As student manager of the Trellis Fund, Elyssa Lewis writes experiences and impacts from this program that matches graduate students to organizations in developing countries for short-term horticulture projects.

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Building trust in food systems – here and in Cambodia

What is the role of trust in our food system? It can be easy to forget that trust is a critical first step in many agricultural relationships. Establishing trust between actors in a food system has been critical for a project in Cambodia focused on increasing availability of safe vegetables for Cambodian consumers.

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.

Horticulture Innovation Lab sign in front of garden path with groups of people looking at demonstrations

What’s growing at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center at UC Davis

Thriving vegetable plants, new experiments in progress, visitors exploring agricultural tools, and an upcoming gardening contest have been keeping the team behind the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center busy recently.

UC Davis students selected as ‘Future Leaders’

Two UC Davis students — Elyssa Lewis and Kate Polakiewicz — were selected for a competitive student fellowship by the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD).

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.

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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.