Research project

Duration: 01 August 2017 to 01 July 2020 Project information Aim: The benefits of sowing quality seed is tremendous. Low seeding rates help farmers save time, money and labor. Fast uniform emergence, more vigorous seedlings, high uniformity in the field, high return per unit area, high quality of the harvest, and high market value are valuable to smallholder farmers. »

Duration: 19 June 2017 to 15 June 2020 Project information Aim: Dye sorghum varieties have the distinct advantages to produce bio-colorants-containing leaf sheaths, while producing at the same time grain, which at present is not yet fully valorised in Benin for human consumption. This project “Promoting dye sorghum cultivation to improve livelihoods in rural Benin in a context of »

Duration: 01 August 2017 to 31 July 2020 Project information Aim: The polders in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta were constructed for rice cultivation but due to salinization caused by sea-level rise and climate change impact, rice is progressively replaced by shrimp. Mangroves enhance coastal protection, biodiversity and aquaculture productivity. This project supports the option of enhancing shrimp cultivation »

Duration: 01 August 2017 to 31 July 2020 Project information Aim: Among cultivated plants, banana and plantain are the rare species identified to benefit from global warming because both productivity and suitable lands are expected to increase. Initiatives around plantain are very rare in Benin. The aim of this project “Strategic diffusion and marketing of promising varieties of »

During the annual review meeting of the ARF project “Cassava Applied Research for Food Security in Northern Uganda”, the research consortium managed to do a gender and power analysis for the project, especially looking at roles between women and men along the cassava value chain, control and access to resources, decision making and needs. »

The project “Horticultural food systems in Chile and Uruguay (HortEco)” was awarded funds in the third Call of the Global Challenges Porgramme. Consortium partners came together for a kick-off workshop from December 19 till 21, 2016, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso in Quillota, Chile. »