This report covers the Feed the Future Asia Innovative Farmers Activity for the 2015-16 fiscal year (September 18, 2015-September 30, 2016).
The project has made great progress this year in developing and implementing an innovative, integrated approach that is: building awareness and excitement around the potential for new technologies to solve persistent smallholder agricultural constraints and facilitating a broad-based regional innovation community to bring regional resources and experience together for the benefit of Asian smallholder agriculture; identifying new, cutting edge agricultural technologies from South and South East Asia; facilitating the commercial expansion of new technologies into Feed the Future focal countries.
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