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Horticulture Innovation Lab research related to gender addresses ways horticulture can provide a pathway for women to improve their household's income and nutrition. Providing women equitable access to agricultural inputs and extension information can allow them to make better use of the benefits that horticultural crops can offer. The program has also purposely offered gender-focused training to its researchers, to enable them to better incorporate gender considerations into their research processes.

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Projects

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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