Research project

Duration: 01 January 2017 to 31 December 2019 Project information Aim: Tomatoes serve as a source of livelihood for many rural farmers in Uganda, mainly produced by all gender groups and has potential for increasing income, improving living standards and employment creation. Its production and productivity in Uganda has been limited by Bacterial wilt. This project “Improved Resilience Through »

Duration: 01 January 2017 to 30 June 2019 Project information Aim: This applied research “Enabling Access to Sustainable Irrigation: Pay-per-harvest Irrigation Service for Barsha pumps in Indonesia (EASI-Pay)” addresses the barrier to pay for the upfront costs of the Barsha pump in Sumba, one of the driest islands in Indonesia. Agriculture is limited to some valleys next to rivers, »

Duration: 05 December 2016 to 05 December 2019 Project information Aim: This project “Developing and promoting efficient fish feeds to enable emergence of catfish breeding in Benin (ProfishBenin)” aims at developing and promoting affordable, nutritive, floating, and easy to use fish feeds based on locally available feed ingredients in Benin. This is an applied research to be carried »

Duration: 08 January 2017 to 07 January 2020 Project information Aim: This multidisciplinary research “Improving and promoting the use of Moringa oleifera leaves for a better maternal and early childhood nutrition in Benin (FortiMoringa)” will seek scientific evidence to enable scaling up the activities of THP-B and its partners in promoting Moringa Oleifera as a valuable »

This Global Challenges Programme project aims to increase the production of fish and vegetables while saving scarce natural resources, through the transfer of prototype aquaponics systems to rural households in Ethiopia. In March 2016 eight aquaponics systems were constructed and in November 2016 another thirty were finished.  »

In September 2016, all beneficiaries of the Global Challenges Programme project “Sustainable integrated fish-vegetable production in Ethiopia” attended the Aquaponics trainings. The project aims at increasing nutrition security of rural households in Ethiopia. »