Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab

The activity will design, lead, and implement an applied research program focused on the control of current and emerging biotic threats to food security crops that the poor depend on.

The program will also strengthen local research partners through capacity development while benefiting smallholder farmers and other beneficiaries of USAID assistance.

The Innovation Lab will serve as a resource to USAID Missions and their implementing partners in their efforts to overcome critical crop pest, weed and disease constraints facing their national food systems.

The Innovation Lab is broadly expected to help recognize, build on and influence impact pathways from crop biotic threat protection research to development outcomes through partnerships with USAID Mission-supported programs, national partners, private companies, community-based organizations, and other donors and their programs.