USAID’s Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC IL) is working closely with PlantVillage, a trusted partner, to transform food systems and thus reduce food loss and waste to assist the world in the fight against... Read full article

PlantVillage, in collaboration with Dream Team Agro Consultancy Limited in Kenya, has completed training for 30 farmers from seven counties to serve as parasitoid agents. This initiative empowers farmers to become informed sales... Read full article

Tracyline Jayo, PlantVillage’s research associate lead, has been collecting data from 40 experimental fields across four counties in Kenya to evaluate the effectiveness of lignocellulose banana paper in managing soil-borne pathogens and enhancing... Read full article

In a promising stride towards enhancing food security and advancing agricultural practices, PlantVillage has joined hands with NemAfrica to establish a sweet potato experimental plot at Pwani University in Kilifi County. The... Read full article

In a groundbreaking demonstration of the potential of research and development in the agricultural sector, CETC IL and PlantVillage, operating through Dream Team Agro Consultancy Limited in Kenya, is taking... Read full article

As we mark the 2023 International Youth Day under the banner "Green Skills for Youth: Towards a Sustainable World", Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops takes pride in showcasing one of... Read full article

Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD), caused by the banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), poses a significant threat to banana production in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease, first reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the... Read full article

Fall armyworm is a destructive and invasive pest that continues to spread rapidly to new countries and territories, causing serious damage to food production and affecting millions of farmers across the globe. The pest feasts on vital crops like maize,... Read full article

PlantVillage's groundbreaking carbon capture initiative presents a robust plan to combat the escalating atmospheric carbon levels that pose a significant threat to food production, particularly in Africa and other... Read full article

Scientists from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)have announced groundbreakingadvancements in predicting extreme droughts, and with CETC IL innovative ways of scaling out these findings to farmers... Read full article

PlantVillage scientists had the privilege of participating in the Global Forum on Biological Control, an esteemed event organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Centre for... Read full article

The planet has been ablaze with unprecedented heat, pushing temperatures to record highs according to unofficial data from the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer (Fig 1). This startling revelation serves as a bleak milestone in the... Read full article

The fight against fall armyworms on farms in sub-Saharan Africa has received a major boost after PlantVillage, through the support of USAID’s Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab,... Read full article

A popular TV program aired on Citizen television in Kenya, known as Shamba Shape Up, is helping farmers adopt biocontrol agents against fall armyworm. In an integrated pest management project led by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for... Read full article

The use of biochar in farming is a revolutionary pollution-free solution currently adopted by farmersas one of the conservation agriculture practicesadvocated by USAID’s Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC IL). Much research... Read full article

Dream Team Agro Consultancy Limited is engaging in mass production of parasitoids through its parasitoid rearing facility at Alupe University in collaboration with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE). This initiative aims to help farmers produce more... Read full article

Last week, Zamorano University hosted a closing workshop at the Los Pinos hotel in La esperanza to conclude the farmer field school program with potato growers in Honduras. In a project funded by... Read full article

Burkina Faso like many Sahelian countries is experiencing the worst drought and famine in a decade. To top it off, destructive pests on the country’s important food crops leave Burkinabe households vulnerable to food insecurity. Pests... Read full article

Mrs. Annette Orinyo from Alupe in Busia County has been farming for at least 5 years. In her farming experience, she grows maize, cassava, groundnuts, and vegetables and keeps cows to feed her family of five. Farming is especially difficult in Kenya,... Read full article

Kenyan farmers have acknowledged how organic fertilizer under the initiative of USAID's Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC IL) came in handy for them after inorganic fertilizer prices skyrocketed during... Read full article