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HORTICULTURE CRSP IN REVIEW

 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.

Horticulture CRSP News – Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2010 is now available

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. 

 

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HortCRSP Inception Workshop

What Workshop
When 16th to 17th May 2010
Where Singapore, Singapore (SGP)
More Info http://www.hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/main/workshop.html
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Goal:
The primary goal of the workshop is to facilitate networking between land grant universities and institutions in the developing world who are potential applicants for funding from the Horticulture CRSP. It will also provide a forum for discussion of Horticulture CRSP projects' benchmarks and assessment methods. In addition, the workshop will be an opportunity for discussion of the goals and structure of the Horticulture CRSP Information Portal.

Attending:
100 invited representatives from land grant universities and other institutions working in development (click here to apply for an invitation)

Dates:
May 16-18, 2010

Location:
National Institute of Education, Singapore

Agenda:
Agenda will be finalized soon but will consist of plenary session, small group workshops, poster sessions, and opportunities to network and socialize.

Collaborative Mapping of Horticultural Projects in World's Poorer Countries now in Progress

Published on 21st Apr 2010

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:

  1. Name of organizations? Affiliation or type of organization?
  2. Project title? Please write the main idea of the project.
  3. Where is/was the project being implemented? (Cities, regions and/or countries)
  4. Which horticultural crops are/were the focus of the project?
  5. What horticultural development topics do/did your project address? (Production, postharvest handling, food safety, market access, nutrition, gender equity, finance, etc.)
  6. Is there a website, or other source of more information about the project.  If there are ongoing or final reports, or publications, can you provide access to them, or send them as electronic files? 

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

View Horticultural Projects in a larger map

Green-     Sustainable Production
Blue-       Food Safety
Pink-       Nutrition
Purple-    Germplasm
Red-       Postharvest
Turquoise-Pest Management 
Yellow-    Enabling Environment

UC Davis to Lead $15 Million Global Horticulture Project

Published 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)

Timeline

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RESOURCES

HORTCRSP Website 

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