EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University researchers will get $24.5 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of a long-term effort to help developing nations find sustainable and secure food sources, officials said.

The East Lansing school announced Monday that funding for the USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Grain Legumes aims to increase productivity of smaller farmers and enhance diets of the poor in the U.S., Africa and Central America.