International Agricultural Research List of bmz-funded projects
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Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch, Institute of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Uzbek Research Institute of Plant Industry, Uzbekistan; Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Uzbekistan; National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan; Institute of Soil & Environmental Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Region: Central Asia and the Caucasus, South Asia Country: Pakistan, Uzbekistan Consortium Research Program: Integrated agricultural production systems for dry areas Major Research Domain: Mungbean, genetic diversity, abiotic stress tolerance, sustainability, gender equity, agricultural diversification, soil fertility improvement Budget: 1,200,000 € Goal (as per proposal): Given declining soil fertility and the predominating monoculture practice in the target countries, there is a need for appropriate legume crops for rotation to achieve more sustainable production systems and to raise and/or stabilize income. Mungbean is a successful catch crop in the cereal production systems of South Asia. The goal is to improve farmer income and increase the sustainability of dryland production systems in South and Central Asia.
Smallholder farmers adopt improved mungbean varieties as a catch crop in dryland production systems in the target countries. 'More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas', by providing a rotation crop that mitigates natural resource degradation and reduces farmers' dependence on one or a few crops for income, and 'More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households', by providing improved intensification options generating additional farm income. Outputs (as per proposal): 1. Breeders have better access to mungbean trait diversity from genebanks; 2. Improved farmer-preferred mungbean lines with increased resistance to viruses and bruchid pests, and resilience to environmental stresses available; 3: Mungbean production technologies increasing soil fertility and crop productivity in marginal areas and under salt stress developed; 4: Uptake pathway for improved mungbean varieties and technologies strengthened; 5: Research and development capacity of project staff and extension personnel and farmers enhanced. Major Results Achieved: State of project implementation as of: 02/25/2016: Mungbean accessions from the AVRDC genebank and from other genetic resources were screened to identify tolerant and resistant germplasm. Resistance to yellow mosaic disease was mapped at a position responsible for almost 50% of the variation in resistance observed. A nucleotide marker tightly associated with the resistance locus was converted to a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based marker and made available for breeders. Thirteen PCR-based markers to select for the three loci have been forwarded to breeders for marker-assisted selection of bruchid resistant genotypes. 30 bruchid resistant lines have been selected for distribution to partners in two target countries. Additionally, 30 lines with resistance to powdery mildew and potential resistance to yellow mosaic disease were identified for distribution to partners. A floating hydroponic screening system for salt stress tolerance has been developed. The AVRDC mungbean mini-core collection was used in screening. Two accessions showed no reduction in germination and a further eight accessions showed more than 90% germination under salt stress conditions. In Pakistan, the first ever mungbean learning alliance has been established, consisting of researchers, farmers, input suppliers, processors, and extension workers. For the first time, a comprehensive study on mungbean has been conducted in Uzbekistan with a series of field trials. Identification of technologies for increasing soil fertility and crop productivity are currently being developed. Publications: - Chun-Yu Shen, Andreas Ebert and Jessica Chang. Screening of mungbean germplasm for salt tolerance in a hydroponic system. Report, AVRDC, 2015. AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center Contract No.: 81182263 02/2015 - 01/2017 Project Title: Wild Relatives to Fight Blight: Using wild tomato to enhance the resistance of tropical tomato cultivars against late blight Project Coordinator: Dr. Andreas Ebert, Genebank Manager, AVRDC Project Coordinator email: andreas.ebert@worldveg.org. Partner Institutes: Humboldt University Berlin (HUB), Germany Region: East Africa Country: Tanzania
Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics
Vegetable breeding, disease resistance, wild species, adoption constraints, profitability, tomato Budget: 80,000 €
Improved farmer income and more environmentally sustainable tomato production.
Additional late blight resistance genes from the wild species S. habrochaites are made available to the global tomato breeding community for tomato improvement and farmers and other actors along the tomato value chain adopt tomato cultivars with enhanced late blight resistance. Outputs (as per proposal): 1. Interspecific populations produced from targeted S. habrochaites accessions for use as mapping populations and to transfer resistance into cultivated tomato for use by global tomato breeders to develop new cultivars 2. Late blight resistance genes mapped in targeted S. habrochaites accessions and markers designed for gene introgression for use by global tomato breeders 3. Constraints to the diffusion of available late blight-resistant cultivars identified and potential effect of late blight resistance on farmer profits quantified in Tanzania as a case study. Major Results Achieved: State of project implementation as of: 02/25/2016: Development of 8 interspecific populations for late blight mapping is finished and late blight screening with a highly aggressive pathogen isolate is completed for one population and ongoing for a second. Passport data were collected about self-incompatibility and other traits. Accessions were also evaluated for trichome types and densities which are related to resistance against insect pest attack. Late blight resistant F2 plants were transplanted to allow production of F3 seed. The project has developed one gene-based marker for the Ph-3 resistance gene. Publications: - Hoffmann, A. & al. (2016): Evaluation of the Ph-3 gene-specific marker developed for marker-assisted selection of late blight resistant tomato' submitted for publication in the journal 'Plant Breeding'. AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center Contract No.: 81194998 03/2016 - 02/2018 Project Title: Nutrition-Sensitive Promotion of Vegetables (NutriSenseProm) – increasing vegetable consumption through public and private partnerships efficiently delivering effective nutrition messages in the vegetable value chain Project Coordinator: Dr. Andreas Gramzow - AVRDC Tanzania Project Coordinator email: andreas.gramzow@worldveg.org Partner Institutes: Georg-August University Göttingen - Germany; GIZ Program: Food Security through improved agricultural productivity in western Kenya; Simlaw Seeds Company Limited - Kenya Region: East Africa Country: Kenya
Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics
Nutrition, crop and dietary diversity, vegetables, agricultural extension, private-public partnership, value chains Budget: 100,000 € Goal (as per proposal): To increase consumption of diverse nutrient-rich foods by poor rural and urban households in sub-Saharan Africa. Purpose (as per proposal): Smallholder farmers produce a wider range of high quality nutrient-rich vegetables, which traders supply to consumers with less nutrient losses along the value chain and consumers become more aware of the importance of nutrition. Outputs (as per proposal): 1) Strategic approach formulated for the design and testing of nutrition messages and message delivery systems to influence producers, traders and consumers towards more and diverse vegetables leading to more nutritious diets. 2) Key message delivery systems identified that motivate value chain actors to make decisions that lead to positive nutrition outcomes. 3) Training manual developed to put the strategic approach into practice. Major Results Achieved: not yet available Publications: none so far - new project Bioversity International Contract No.: 81194988 02/2016 - 01/2019 Project Title: Strengthening cultivar diversity of barley and durum wheat to manage climate related risks and foster productivity in marginal areas of Ethiopia Project Coordinator: Carlo Fadda - Bioversity Addis Ababa Project Coordinator email: c.fadda@cgiar.org Partner Institutes: Hohenheim University - Germany; Mekelle University; Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI); Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI); Ethiopian Institute Agricultural Research (EIAR); Scuola Superiore S. Anna - Italy Region: East Africa Country: Ethiopia
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Germplasm, breeding, climate change adaptation, Seeds for Needs program, seed systems, wheat Budget: 1,200,000 € Goal (as per proposal): By cultivating useful, adapted and diverse barley and wheat varieties, poor farm households in marginalized areas in Tigray, Amhara and Oromyia, Ethiopia, are more food secure in the face of climate change and other shocks. This goal relates to all SLOs of the CGIAR, with emphasis on increasing food security and decreasing rural poverty. Farmers will have access to superior varieties at the right time and the right quantities and will be empowered over the use of genetic diversity for adaptation to climate change through the community-based approach and the evolutionary breeding which will be a constantly evolving (and adapting) source of seeds for breeders and farmers. Purpose (as per proposal): Ethiopian men and women farmers have access to and adopt a diversity of superior, high-quality barley and durum wheat seeds developed from robust, more nutrient-dense landraces or improved materials, to sustainably increase yields. This relates to CCAFS IDOs on (3) 'Adaptive capacity'; (1) Food security'; (2) 'Gender and social differentiation' and, and, to a lesser extent (4) Policies and institutions' (in particular seed system policies). Outputs (as per proposal): 1) Representative sets of Ethiopian barley and durum wheat germplasm characterized for genetic diversity, agro-morphological, diseases reaction and grain nutrient density traits 2) Participatory breeding strategies developed involving women and men for barley and durum wheat adaptation to variable climate conditions and acid soils 3) Women and men farmers' access to barley and durum wheat cultivar diversity enhanced and cultivars with specific adaptation to farmers' contexts identified and released ('Matching seeds to needs') 4) Role and capacity of local farmer- and community-based seed production schemes reinforced at target sites 5) Capacity of Ethiopian women and men scientists in participatory breeding and seed systems work strengthened Major Results Achieved: not yet available Publications: none so far - new project Bioversity International Contract No.: 81194999 03/2016 - 02/2018 Project Title: Innovative, participatory tools for dietary assessment and nutrition education considering local agrobiodiversity in Turkana County, Kenya Project Coordinator: Julia Boedecker - CIM Expert Bioversity Kenya Project Coordinator email: j.boedecker@cgiar.org Partner Institutes: University of Goettingen - Germany; University of Hohenheim - Germany; Ministry of Health Kenya; GIZ Kenya: Food Security & Drought Resilience Programme Region: East Africa Country: Kenya
Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health
Dietary diversity, nutrition, education, biodiversity, participatory approach, improved food and nutrition security Budget: 100,000 € Goal (as per proposal): To improve the dietary quality for women of reproductive age and small children aged 6 to 23 months in Turkana County. Purpose (as per proposal): Health workers, extensionists, project implementers, researchers and MoH use tools developed within this project to increase knowledge on healthy diets for women and children (6-23 months of age) and diversification strategies by considering local food biodiversity (leading to increased dietary quality and diversity). Outputs (as per proposal): 1) Available food biodiversity, dietary patterns for women of reproductive age and feeding practices for children aged 6 to 23 months in Turkana documented 2) A novel self-administered 24-hour recall tool, adaptable to any region, designed and tested 3) Open-access paper on validation of the self-administered 24h recall tool published 4) Cost of Diet tool refined and adapted for use in Turkana/drylands areas to assess the cost of a nutritious diet with and without One World - No Hunger intervention 5) Distribution-ready nutrition education and training material built on results of BEAF funded INULA project (Apr 2012-Oct 2014) (Bioversity International, 2015) developed with MoH Turkana, GIZ and other partners, and the Food and Nutrition Linkages Working Group of the MoH National Nutrition and Dietetics Unit, Nairobi. Major Results Achieved: not yet available Publications: none so far - new project CIAT Contract No.: 81180342 05/2015 - 04/2018 Project Title: Hands and Minds connected to boost Eco-efficiency on Smallholder Livestock-Crop Systems Participatory approaches towards eco-efficient livestock-crop systems for smallholder farmers in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Project Coordinator: Dr. Adrian Bolliger – CIAT Project Coordinator email: a.bolliger@cgiar.org Partner Institutes: University of Göttingen (UGOE), DE; GIZ-Regional Program ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (Biocontrol); Tay Nguyen University, Dak Lak, Vietnam; Western Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute (WASI) Region: Southeast Asia and Pacific Country: Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam Consortium Research Program: Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics Major Research Domain: Farming system, eco-efficiency, climate change, innovation platforms, learning alliances, knowledge sharing, Mekong Subregion (GMS), livestock, smallholder, crop Budget: 1,200,000 € Goal (as per proposal): To develop eco-efficient smallholder livestock-crop farms in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) that reduce rural poverty, improve food security and respect natural resource integrity. Purpose (as per proposal): To increase innovation capacity within the agricultural sector to generate eco-efficient smallholder livestock-crop systems. Outputs (as per proposal): 1. Site-specific contexts analysed; 2. Characterization of integrated smallholder livestock-crop farm systems; 3. Impacts of policies and climate change on smallholder livestock-crop systems analysed; 4. Practices and approaches to increase on-farm eco-efficiency defined; 5. Participatory learning and knowledge sharing on eco-efficient farming established. Major Results Achieved: State of project implementation as of: 03/03/2016: In Laos and Vietnam, project staff members selected 21 villages within the target sites. The selected villages represent a spectrum of remote locations at the forest margin, where traditional forms of semi-subsistence agriculture are common, to sites served better by infrastructure and markets, where farming systems have become more specialized, intensified and market-orientated. The project developed a multiple indicator questionnaire for use on tablets to survey 711 smallholder farmer households in Vietnam and Laos, representing a preliminary step to farm systems characterization and, through statistical test and correlations, answering questions on how intensification, specialization and commercial-orientation are affecting different facets of smallholder livelihoods in the region. Mainly in the Vietnamese target sites the project has already started some visible on-farm demonstrations of model systems, as well as launching learning alliances on topics related to the farm demonstrations. In Cambodia, the project has forged a multi-stakeholder platform to guide the village selection and all future research and capacity building processes. Publications: - None so far - CIAT Contract No.: 81195000 02/2016 - 07/2017 Project Title: Impact of soil conservation practices on soil health and performance of smallholder farms in Western Kenya Project Coordinator: Dr. Rolf Sommer - CIAT at ICIPE Kenya Project Coordinator email: r.sommer@cgiar.org Partner Institutes: Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO); Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives - Siaya, Bungoma and Kakamega in Kenya; GIZ Kenya; GIZ Kenya: Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security Program, Kisumu Region: East Africa Country: Kenya
Durable Solutions for Water Scarcity and Land Degradation
Soil protection and rehabilitation, soil health, carbon sequestration, acid soils, sustainable intensification, farming systems, adoption, sustainability, climate smart agriculture Budget: 100,000 € Goal (as per proposal): To provide in-depth research on the impact of best-bet conservation practices on soil health, climate smartness and performance of smallholder farming systems in Western Kenya. Purpose (as per proposal): Provide scientific backup to GIZ in their efforts to out-scale sustainable ways of intensifying agriculture in Western Kenya thru in-depth research on the impact of best-bet conservation practices on soil health, climate smartness and performance of smallholder farming systems. Outputs (as per proposal): 1) GIZ Soil Protection and Rehabilitation country initiatives have knowledge (and sensitive indicators) about the impact of best-bet soil conservation practices on productivity, soil organic matter and soil organic carbon build up (time, amount), farm household performance and tradeoffs, and, if applicable, required incentives 2) Importance of biological soil health ('living soils') in terms of sustainability and productivity of production systems is better understood, and results published in at least one peer-reviewed journal article 3) Climate smart agricultural indicators established, climate footprint of tested best-bet management practices quantified and results and conclusions communicated in the form of 'best-bet briefs' to higher-level decision making entities (e.g. government climate change offices, Africa CSA Major Results Achieved: not yet available Publications: none so far - new project CIAT Contract No.: 81182264 03/2015 - 12/2016 Project Title: Potential farm to landscape impact and adoption of forage technologies in smallholder dairy production systems in Tanzania Project Coordinator: Birthe Paul - CIAT Project Coordinator email: b.paul@cgiar.org Partner Institutes: ZALF (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research), Germany Region: East Africa Country: Tanzania
Sustainable staple food productivity increase for global food security: Livestock and Fish
Farming systems research, tropical forages, tradeoffs, field and farm and landscape scale modeling, adoption potential, innovation platforms, ex-ante impact assessment Budget: 80,000 €
To improve productivity and livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers with minimum tradeoffs for the environment through increased adoption of improved forage technologies. The project aims more specifically at raising awareness among farmers and other stakeholders (development organizations, policy makers) about potential impacts of forage technologies on productivity, environment, and livelihoods and adoption potential and barriers so that they can better target their interventions.
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1. To classify the crop-livestock systems with special regard to feeding system, using existing household datasets, feeding system assessment and newly collected data. Gender variables will be considered in the typology construction.The aim is to quantify feeding baskets and feeding gaps, thereby identifying bottlenecks and entry points, and providing necessary input data for modeling efforts. 2. Environmental effects of forage technologies will be assessed at farm to landscape level. 3. This output will especially focus on the adoption potential of forage technologies, delivered by ZALF. 4. To build livestock feeding capacity of smallholder farmers and raise awareness about potential impacts and adoption potential among stakeholders (development actors, policy makers, researchers, farmers) so that they can better target their interventions. Major Results Achieved: State of project implementation as of: 03/29/2016: For improved forage establishment in farmers' fields farmers received Napier grass, a Brachiaria hybrid and mulberry trees. Demonstration plots were installed at Innovation Platform members' fields. An inventory was started to locate all farmers who have received improved forage planting material throughout the last four years, and their experiences were recorded including acreage planted, integration into cropping system, and challenges encountered. Two replicated trials in farmers' fields were continued, and agronomic data collected to reveal differences in performance of different forages as monocrops and intercrops, and under different fertilization regimes. A mini-landscape of 20 farmers in Ubiri village, Lushoto, was sampled to evaluate the potential impact of growing Napier grass on homestead fields on labor, profitability, nutrient balances and soil organic matter. Publications: - Carlson, B., Sommer, R., Paul, B.K., Muli, M., Stoeckle, C. (2016). Enhancing CropSyst for intercropping modeling. 15-17 March 2016. Presentation at iCrop conference, Berlin. - Heemskerk, S., Nzogela, B., Paul, B.K. (2016). CIAT & TALIRI feedback and scenario workshop report. 22nd of January 2016. Lushoto, Tanzania - Lissu, C., Paul, B.K., Carlson, B., Stoeckle, C., Mwendia, S., Sommer, R. (2015) Napier Grass Productivity under Different Cropping and Fertilisation Systems in Lushoto Highlands, Tanzania. Tropentag conference, Berlin - Mwendia, S., Paul, B.K., Koge, J. (2015). Forage training report. 11th of August 2015. Lushoto, Tanzania - Paul, B.K., Koge, J. (2015). CIAT and TALIRI project meeting report. 29th of October 2015. Arusha, Tanzania - Paul, B.K., Notenbaert, A., Pfeifer, C., Morris, J., Bwire, J., Omore, J. (2015). Productivity, environmental impacts and tradeoffs of livestock intensification options in Tanga region, Tanzania. Presentation at the 3rd Tanzania Dairy Stakeholders Platform meeting. 10th of December 2015. Tanga, Tanzania - Paul, B.K., Sommer, R., Mangesho, W.E., Bwire, J., Schuler, J., Ndah, H.T., Groot, J.C. (2015). Potential farm to landscape scale impact and adoption of forage technologies in smallholder dairy production systems in Tanga, Tanzania. Tropentag conference, Berlin CIAT Contract No.: 81194989 03/2016 - 02/2019 Project Title: Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in East Africa Project Coordinator: Matthias Jäger – CIAT Project Coordinator email: m.jager@cgiar.org Download 276.56 Kb. Share with your friends:
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