** The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut is no longer active. However, this website remains available as a resource for accessing the lab’s past research and collaborative work aimed at improving peanut production and use, enhancing nutrition, and promoting food safety in developing countries. **
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut works to alleviate hunger by helping farmers in developing countries grow and profit from healthy peanut crops. The new program builds on the many successes of the previous Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab in developing new varieties, pre- and post-harvest management and processing. It also works in the new research areas of peanut-based nutrition, gender and youth.
Areas of Inquiry
Varietal improvement
New wild alleles to improve peanut
Enhancing genetic potential in peanut in Western Africa
Seed production and breeding needs assessment
Enhancing genetic potential in Eastern and Southern Africa
Digital data management system for breeding
SNP genotyping of African germplasm
Genotyping U.S. germplasm in Africa
Breeding for drought, leaf spot and oil
Value-added gains along the value chain
Production packages for Malawi
Optimized shrub system for peanut
Satellite image analysis for peanut
Tool to evaluate the risk of yield loss in peanut
Understanding the role of peanuts in nutrition and health
Understanding the roles of gender and youth along the peanut value chain
Gender in peanut production in Senegal
Time poverty among Ghanaian women
Youth in peanut production in Senegal
Farmer incentives for quality Ghanaian peanuts
Cross-cutting areas such as gender equality, impacts of climate change, capacity building, and human nutrition and health featured prominently in all research.