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Horticulture Innovation Lab research on fruit and vegetable production examine field practices that improve yields, decrease drudgery, and make farming more profitable for smallholder farmers.
In the wake of the Ebola outbreak, the Horticulture Innovation Lab was asked to evaluate fruit and vegetable production in Guinea, as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s ongoing response in the region.
Amanda Crump writes about travel and meetings in the Western Highlands of Guatemala to finalize plans for an upcoming project called MásRiego (“more irrigation” in Spanish).
African indigenous vegetables and women who grow them in Zambia are the subject of two videos made by a team from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
More commonly used with field crops, this research shows that conservation agriculture practices allow vegetable farmers to improve soil health and reduce some of their labor needs.
