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AquaFish Director Hillary Egna Honored for Contributions to Aquaculture by the World Aquaculture Society

Dr. Hillary Egna, director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on AquaFish, was recognized for her contributions to the field of aquaculture with The World Aquaculture Society’s (WAS) Honorary Life Award during the society’s triennial meeting […]

The Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Collaborative Research Council Meeting: Tanzania, March 4 – 8, 2013

The Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Collaborative Research (formerly CRSP) held their Council meeting “Examining Opportunities for Linkages in Collaborative Research, Technology Dissemination, and Human and Institutional Capacity Development” in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, Tanzania between Monday, March 4 […]

Reducing the Vulnerability of Kenya’s Pastoralists to Drought with Livestock Insurance

In the arid and semi-arid lands of northern Kenya, pastoralists’ livelihoods depend on the health of their herds. In anticipation of drought, households often avoid potentially high-return activities for safer strategies, keeping them poorer than they need to be. When […]

SANREM in Cincinnati: Researchers attend Annual Meeting

Over sixty  researchers and students from twelve  different universities, as well as other NGO partners and representatives from  USAID, convened in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 21- 22 for the Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Lab: Collaborative Research on Sustainable […]

Arresting environmental decline in Haiti: Learning about Conservation Agriculture

The farmlands of Haiti’s Central Plateau are severely degraded, limiting small-scale farmers’ ability to produce food and feed for home and market. SANREM CRSP researchers, together with NGO and government partners, are promoting better environmental stewardship by working with Haitian farmers […]

CRSP Research Increases Agricultural Productivity

Achieving increases in productivity, defined as deriving greater output per unit of input, is a central feature of USAID-funded agricultural programs and particularly the work of the Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs). Productivity gains can come from improvement in breeding, […]

Building the Technical and
Institutional Capacity to Feed the World

To solve the puzzle of sustainably producing more food and feed for tomorrow under conditions of increasing resource scarcity it is critical to build the knowledge and skills of actors in the global food system today. This task has been undertaken by the […]