The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences a $49 million, five-year grant to help feed the world and end hunger. The grant, which will be used to establish the […]

Virginia Tech has won a new $18 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for a research program that will work to raise the standard of living of people around the world through environmentally sound agricultural […]

Rangaswamy “Muni” Muniappan works to save the papaya industry in southern India. He connects researchers in developing countries. He has discovered an invasive species in Senegal and Nepal. Because of these accomplishments and more, the Virginia Tech entomologist caught the […]

University of California, Davis graduate student Kelsey Barale was honored today in Des Moines, Iowa, at a public meeting of a U.S. government advisory board in advance of World Food Prize activities. The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development, […]

Dr. Robert Bertram, an agriculture expert with nearly 30 years of experience at USAID, has been named Chief Scientist in USAID’s Bureau for Food Security. Bertram will serve as a key adviser on a range of technical and program issues […]

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Nutrition – Africa Associate Director William Masters and co-author IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Margaret McMillan recently won the prestigious 2014 Agriculture and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) “Publication of Enduring Quality” award for […]

The 10-minute participatory documentary “Maasai Voices on Climate Change (And other changes, too),” funded by the Livestock Innovation Lab, received the Jean Rouch Award for Collaborative Filmmaking by the Society for Visual Anthropology, a division of the American Anthropological Association. […]

The US Agency for International Development awarded the University of California, Davis-based BASIS Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab a Grand Prize in its Science and Technology Pioneers competition.  The Davis group, in conjunction with partners at Cornell University and […]

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah recently announced the launch of 10 new Feed the Future Innovation Labs to increase global food security and help smallholder farmers boost incomes and improve nutrition during The George Washington University’s […]

A $10 million grant was recently awarded for the new Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy.  The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy will be led by a consortium including Michigan State University, the […]