# Presentation: 725847

## USAID Small Banana Farmer Support Programs

- L. George Wilson
- USAID/Washington
- North Carolina State University
- “No End to the Banana” Forum
- National Agricultural Library
- 21 March 2008

## USAID Colombia

***Support for small banana farmers:***
- MIDAS (Sustainable Alternative Development Program)
- 	60 families, 300 people
- ADAM (Municipal-Level Alternative Development Program)
- 	2,709 families

## CRSPsCollaborative Research Support Programs

***Support for small banana farmers:***
- IPM CRSP
- SANREM CRSP
- Horticulture CRSP

## IPM CRSPIntegrated Pest ManagementCollaborative Research Support Program

***Support for small banana farmers:***
- East Africa: Biotech - Xanthomonas
- Ecuador: Pathogens in plantain/cocoa

## CGIAR/USAID

***Support for small banana farmers:***
- Core Support - includes banana research
- IITA: Banana breeding, including
- 	Banana Xanthomonas Wilt resistance
- Bioversity/INIBAP:
- 		Banana and plantain research

## USAID

***Support for small banana farmers:***
- Agric. Biotech. Support Program II (ABSP II)
- Insect and fungus resistant East African Highland bananas; Research, new greenhouse, and confined transgenic plant field trials (Uganda Mission, $2.6m)
- Management: Cornell U.
- Partners: NARO, KUL, U. Leeds

## PFIDPartnerships for Food Industry Development

***Support for small banana farmers:***
***PFID assists developing & transition countries cope with the emerging requirements for international food trade***
- Mobilizes private and public expertise to **add value** and **meet** **safety and quality standards** in the production and distribution of food products for domestic and international markets

## PFIDPartnerships for Food Industry Development

***Support for small banana farmers:***
***PFID assists developing & transition countries cope with the emerging requirements for international food trade***
**Assembles partnerships** among universities, business associations and individual firms that become "centers of excellence"
**PFID** **applies science**

## FHIA Fundacion Hondurena de Investigaciones Agricola

- USAID provided grant for creation
- USAID an honorary founder
- USAID continues to serve on Board of Directors
- “FHIA is one of the best examples of 	institutional stability
- 	that we have in Honduras”

## FHIA Fundacion Hondurena de Investigaciones Agricola

- FHIA continues to address small farmers’ issues as one of it’s core principles
- Research on bananas & plantains
- Technical assistance & training
- Specialized laboratory services

## FHIA Fundacion Hondurena de Investigaciones Agricola

- With USAID support - FHIA .....
- Released Black Sigatoka resistant
- Plantains: FHIA 20, FHIA 21
- Bananas: FHIA 1, FHIA 2
- Multiplies plantain & banana plants

## FHIA Fundacion Hondurena de Investigaciones Agricola

- After Hurricane Mitch .....
- USAID Emergency Grant enabled FHIA to provide corms of traditional plantains for 500+ poor farmers -- to plant 1,000 Ha ..... plus technical assistance & training

## Support for Small Banana Farmers

*Thank you!*
- LGW

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