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1 Michael Reid Leader, Innovation & Special Projects Meeting Title/Date HORTICULTURE
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Michael Reid Leader, Innovation & Special Projects
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HORTICULTURE
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• Funded by USAID • Spearheaded by UCD, MSU, UH, Purdue, AVRDC • Global consultation • Synthesis of major constraints • Evaluation of research approaches • Recommendations on next steps
} Access to markets } Postharvest losses } Food safety } Germplasm } Sustainable production } Information and education } Government policy
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} “A Collaborative Research Support Program in Horticulture is proposed. This CRSP would be designed to provide research, capacity building, and knowledge extension support essential for the development of the global horticulture sector”
} Work closely with AVRDC and its CGIAR partners in the newly developed Global Horticulture Initiative
} Center for knowledge generation, capacity building, and integration
} Partner with individual, regional, and global consortia of Missions and private and public partners to design and implement projects addressing the core challenges
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} Development of phytosanitary and postharvest protocols for the small producer
} Development of small-scale agrochemical and seed supply micro-enterprises
} Establishment of a Global Horticulture Knowledge Bank and Extension System
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} One of 10 USAID funded CRSPs } UCDavis (lead), NCSU, Cornell, and UH } 5 year initial award } Focused on the entire value chain } Themes ◦ Information Accessibility ◦ Innovation ◦ Gender Equity
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} To apply research findings and technical knowledge to increase smallholders’ participation in markets
} To build local scientific and technical capacity
} To facilitate the development of policies that improve local horticultural trade
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} $75,000 to $1 mil } Africa: Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
} Latin America: Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru
} South and Southeast Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam
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} Improving Seed Systems } Tackling Issues in Production and Marketing } Testing and Transferring Innovative
Technologies } Reducing Postharvest Losses } Keeping the Food Supply Safe } Improving Household Nutrition } Delivering Information and Building Capacity
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} 4,935 rural households reached. } Over 100 new technologies under research. } Over 10,000 hectares under improved
management. } Over 108 students engaged in projects. } 18,297 people trained (51% women). ◦ Marketing strategies, seed systems, developing
businesses, postharvest technologies, food safety, rapid pathogen diagnostics, processing…
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} Demand driven. Aimed at intermediary practitioners working in developing countries
} Credible. Adds value to and builds on existing local and global information
} Focused. Practical “how to” information } http://hortkb.weebly.com
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} Establish in recognized regional institutions } Will become regional foci for Horticulture
CRSP activities ◦ Training ◦ Research ◦ Outreach ◦ Information
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} Work closely with AVRDC and its CGIAR partners in the newly developed Global Horticulture Initiative
} Center for knowledge generation, capacity building, and integration
} Partner with individual, regional, and global consortia of Missions and private and public partners to design and implement projects addressing the core challenges
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} Example projects ◦ Development of phytosanitary and
postharvest protocols for the small producer ◦ Development of small-scale agrochemical
and seed supply micro-enterprises ◦ Establishment of a Global Horticulture
Knowledge Bank and Extension System
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} Access to markets } Postharvest losses } Food safety } Germplasm } Sustainable production } Information and education } Government policy
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} Global Assessment ◦ Access to markets ◦ Postharvest losses ◦ Information and education ◦ Sustainable production ◦ Germplasm ◦ Food safety ◦ Government policy
} LAC assessment ◦ Market access ◦ Postharvest losses ◦ Inadequate extension ◦ Pests, diseases, and weeds ◦ Access to inputs ◦ Access to credit & insurance ◦ Climate change
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}Where should we focus in the future?
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} Unattended areas? ◦ Access to credit and
insurance ◦ Climate change ◦ Government policy
} Scaling ◦ Existing technologies? ◦ New technologies?
} Everything?
} Our core themes? ◦ Information, innovation,
gender } Applied to our core
programs? ◦ Access to markets ◦ Postharvest losses ◦ Information and
education ◦ Sustainable production ◦ Germplasm
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