The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has announced that Kansas State University is the recipient of a $13.7 million grant from the agency to help end poverty and increase food supplies in semiarid Africa. The award was made under Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
The five-year grant establishes the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet at Kansas State University. With it, the university will serve as the nation’s leading center for international sorghum and millet research, as well as a key component in Feed the Future’s mission to advance solutions to hunger, poverty and undernutrition in developing countries.