Research project

The podcast “Hope in Kisumu” is a story from the Women Food Entrepreneurs project in Kenya and Burkina Faso. The project aims to build inclusive business models for food security in the city slums of Kisumu and Ouagadougou. »

In the framework of the GCP project “Allotment gardens and food security in urban Africa” two allotment pilots are being developed to assess their impact on food security of urban poor. After a long search with the support of local authorities, two sites have been found in Benin, at Calavi and Porto-Novo. »

Duration: October 1, 2017 – April 30, 2020 Project information Summary: This research project “Inclusive and climate smart business models in Ethiopian and Kenyan dairy value chains (CSDEK)” is connected to the CCAFS project “Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA)” for Dairy Development in Kenya. NAMA supports stakeholders in Kenya to design/pilot activities to reduce GHG »

Duration: October 1, 2017 – October 1, 2020 Project information Summary: This project “Organising business models for SMAllholder REsilience (OSMARE) in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe” aims to define how the organizational structures of thirteen selected business models in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania stimulate smallholder resilience to market, social and environmental shocks »

Duration: October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2020  Project information Summary: This project “CSA/SuPER – Upscaling CSA with small-scale food producers organised via VSLAs: Financing for adoption, behavioural change and resilience in rural Iringa Region, Tanzania” will provide practical and conceptual insight in the appropriate combinations of business training (through Farmer Field & Business Schools – »

Duration: October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2020 Project information Summary: This research project “Multiple pathways and inclusive low emission development: navigating towards leverage points in the East-African dairy sector” identifies and analyses institutional conditions for scaling low-emission development dairy interventions in an inclusive manner. The formulation and implementation of inclusive low-emission intervention strategies is complicated by asymmetric power »