At 29, Fatoumata Cissoko dries pineapple for her business in West Africa and has already spent three years trying out different drying methods on her parents’ farm in Guinea. She is confident of the entrepreneurial opportunities that are found after harvest — and she is working to share her knowledge with more farmers.

Leaning into her tuktuk, Eang Chakriya opens a cooler and takes out fresh vegetables that have been carefully packed and chilled, showing them to a group of neighbors to purchase.

A small-scale American farmer invented the CoolBot for low-cost cooling with an air conditioner, which the Horticulture Innovation Lab is using with farmers and researchers around the world.