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Humidtropics seeks to transform the lives of the rural poor in the humid lowlands, moist savannas, and tropical highlands in tropical Americas, Asia, and Africa. The program provides a new integrated agricultural systems approach, a single research-for- development plan, and unique partnerships platform for better impact on poverty and ecosystems integrity. Vision: Our innovative integrated systems research in the humid tropics will help poor farm families, most of which are led by women, boost their income from agriculture while preserving the land for future generations. The humid and subhumid tropics, with 2.9 billion people on about 3 billion hectares of land, are critical to global food supplies, central to the maintenance of global biodiversity, and vital to the mitigation of greenhouse gasses. Agricultural systems intensification in these areas offers the best potential for poverty reduction, especially for women and other vulnerable groups, and meeting world food demand.
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Major Partners
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Bioversity, CIAT, CIP, FARA, icipe, IITA, ILRI, IWMI, World Agroforestry Centre, Wageningen University, AVRDC -The World Vegetable Center |