Lead University: Washington State University

This Innovation Lab is developing animal health interventions, such as improved vaccines and diagnostic tests, to improve the control of East Coast Fever, a lethal, tick-borne disease of cattle in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa

Research Focus: Kenya

Lead University: Kansas State University

This Innovation Lab is developing heat-tolerant, high yielding, farmer accepted wheat varieties through local characterization and breeding networks, using the most advanced genomic tools.

Research Focus: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan

Lead University: The Pennsylvania State University 

This Innovation Lab aims to lead country and regional efforts to diagnose, manage, prevent and forecast biotic threats (pests, diseases, weeds) to food crops to improve crop production, reduce farmer loss and risk, increase household income and incentivize on-farm investment while mitigating potential negative environmental and climate change consequences 

Research Focus: TBD 

Lead University: Mississippi State University 

This Innovation Lab is researching technologies and practices that lead to sustainable increases in fish production, reduction and mitigation of risks to fish production systems while increasing household nutrition and economic opportunities. 

Research Focus: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia 

Lead University: Purdue University 

This Innovation Lab aims to design, lead, and implement a food safety research and capacity building program that addresses food safety opportunities and challenges, serving as a resource for development partners converging on the role of food safety in inclusive economic growth, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, gender-sensitive and youth-inclusive development, and resilience. 

Research Focus: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda 

Lead University: Tufts University 

This Innovation Lab aims to conduct nutrition-sensitive food systems research to guide partner country programming and policy to improve diets and nutrition; increase country capacity to generate and transfer knowledge, technologies and practices; and produce needed empirical evidence of food system interventions that protect healthy diets and nutrition in the face of shocks and stresses. 

Research Focus: TBD 

Lead University: University of California, Davis 

This Innovation Lab aims to design, lead and implement horticulture research and capacity building to address opportunities and challenges of production, post-harvest, enterprise development and commercialization while promoting resilient climate-smart systems, inclusive of women and youth. 

Research Focus: TBD 

Lead University: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 

This Innovation Lab is supporting improved, environmentally sustainable yields for smallholder farmers through the implementation of participatory, integrated pest management (IPM) programs in horticultural, grain and legume crops using centers of excellence for dissemination of best IPM practices and scalable solutions. 

Research Focus: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania, Vietnam 

Lead University: University of Florida 

This Innovation Lab is working to improve livestock systems by addressing key issues of livestock value chains, including quality feed supply, disease management, food safety, market access and enabling policies that drive sustainable increases in animal source food consumption to combat undernutrition and poverty. 

Research Focus: Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda 

Lead University: University of California, Davis 

This Innovation Lab will study the root causes of persistent poverty and food insecurity, and how best to improve the resilience of individuals, households, communities, and systems, particularly in the face of recurrent crisis. 

Research Focus: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia 

Lead University: Michigan State University 

This Innovation Lab is building capacity of local agricultural policy research organizations to strengthen their capacity to carry out rigorous research on food security policy, contributing to a global research agenda, and to engage directly with their countries’ policy makers, to bring insights from the research into better policy-making that improves food security. 

Research Focus: Cambodia, Ghana, India, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Thailand, Timor L’este, Uganda, Zambia 

Lead University: Kansas State University 

This Innovation Lab works to reduce post-harvest loss of stored product crops (grains, oilseeds, legumes, root crops, nuts, spices, seeds) and related processed products by enabling smallholder farmers, cooperatives, agribusinesses, NGOs and other partners to improve moisture measurement, drying/storage techniques, insect and mycotoxin prevention, and market-based value chain access. 

Research Focus: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nepal 

Lead University: Kansas State University 

This Innovation Lab is advancing biophysical and social sciences that contribute technologies and knowledge toward the enhancement of adaptation, resilience and profitability of sorghum- and millet-based production systems and value chains. 

Research Focus: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mali, Niger, Senegal 

Lead University: University of Illinois 

This Innovation Lab focuses on African farmers and companies for whom soybean can serve as an economic driver that reduces poverty and hunger. The team is composed of technical soybean experts that provide evidence-based innovations, tools, and technologies across the value chain to enable sustainable livelihoods through profitable soybean production and utilization. 

Research Focus: Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia