Kansas State University has awarded nearly $6 million to projects that will help improve food securities in six countries.

The money is directed through the university’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable intensification, which was funded for $50 million in 2014.

Feed the Future innovation labs are part of the U. S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, and are administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Twenty-five such labs are hosted by universities across the United States, with four of those labs at Kansas State University.