Global Horticulture Initiative is very happy to see the long-awaited announcement of the USAID Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Horticulture CRSP or HortCRSP).
GlobalHort and the GlobalHort Information Portal have been in place for over 2 years. It is now hoped that we can work collaboratively with HORTCRSP in order to effectively reduce poverty and improve human health through R4D.
Published on 3rd Jul 2010
Horticulture CRSP News – Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2010 is now available:
html format: http://hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/main/newsletter01_02.html
This issue includes details on Horticulture CRSPs efforts to create partners and fund projects.
| What | Workshop |
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| When | 16th to 17th May 2010 |
| Where | Singapore, Singapore (SGP) |
| More Info | http://www.hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/main/workshop.html |
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Horticultural CRSP and GlobalHort are working together to catalog past and ongoing horticultural projects in the world’s poorer countries. Over 600 horticultural projects have thus far been gathered and mapped http://hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/main/worldprojects.html. If your organization has or has had horticultural development projects we would like to hear from you. Please take the time to fill out a short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TPNZFJC for each of your horticultural projects, or answer the questions listed below and send the file back by email to Peter Shapland. Answer the following questions for each of your horticultural projects:
The mapping of horticultural development projects is being done in order to populate an online resource that enables funding agencies and project creators to learn about existing projects, find potential linkages and identify areas of need.
The plan is to create two interactive web-based maps, one for ongoing projects and one for completed projects. The map of current projects will enable donors, researchers and development workers to find out who is active in order to build collaborations and create complementary projects. The map of completed projects will provide a better understanding of what work has been done in a given country or region. The intent is not only to provide an overview, but also to enable visitors to access detailed information on individual projects, seek out past project implementers and learn about what worked and what did not.
In the near future this data will be made more uniform in order to be able to enter it into a relational database and post the maps in GIS format. In GIS a larger amount and more types of data can be entered and the user will have more power to conform the data to his or her need. An input form will be supplied that will enable users to directly upload projects onto the map and provide feedback about what kinds of information they would like to see on the map.
Peter Shapland,Horticulture CRSP
Jerry Miner, Global Horticulture Initiative
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Green- Sustainable ProductionBlue- Food SafetyPink- NutritionPurple- GermplasmRed- PostharvestTurquoise-Pest Management Yellow- Enabling EnvironmentPublished on 30th Oct 2009
Intent on helping the world’s poorest people break out of a persistent cycle of poverty by producing and marketing high-value crops, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected the University of California, Davis, to lead a new $15 million, five-year global Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program.
The new program will select and support U.S. and international partners as they undertake research, training, curriculum-development and outreach activities in the neediest countries, most located in sub-Saharan Africa, southern Asia and Latin America.
The collaborative research effort will be responsible for developing and leading a broad range of activities that demonstrate how horticulture can help reduce hunger and malnutrition, and raise the incomes of the rural poor. (,,,more)