CLIFOOD: German-Ethiopian SDG Graduate School: Climate Change Effects on Food Security

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange service (DAAD), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Business Management

Prof. Dr. Enno Bahrs

Secretariat contact: Petra Blanke petra.blanke@uni-hohenheim.de 
landwirtschaftliche-betriebslehre.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

QuiPack: Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Research Center for Health Sciences – One Health

Irene Huber

Secretariat contact: Katrin Braun katrin.braun@uni-hohenheim.de
health.uni-hohenheim.de/geschaeftsstelle

SAFARI: Successful Advances in Fiscal Architecture – Evidence from a new tax in Zanzibar

 

Region: East Africa

Tanzania

Funding program:
Research Council of Norway

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Public Economics

Prof. Dr. Nadja Dwenger

Secretariat contact: Verena Christl verena.christl@uni-hohenheim.de
fiwi.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Transmission ecology and risk factors for cystic echinococcosis in sub-Saharan Africa

 

Region: West, East, and Southern Africa

Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2022-Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Parasitology

Prof. Dr. Ute Mackenstedt

Secretariat contact: Simone Gayer s.gayer@uni-hohenheim.de
parasitologie.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Integrated Chia and Oyster Mushroom System for Sustainable Food Value Chain in Africa (CHIAM)

 

Region: North and East Africa, Europe

Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Hungary

Funding program:
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Process Analytics and Cereal Science

Dr. Viktoria Zettel

Secretariat contact: Melina Effner melina.effner@uni-hohenheim.de
process-analytics.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

Assessment of dietary intake and nutritional- and micronutrient status during pregnancy and its impact on birth outcomes in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Fiat Panis Foundation

Funding period:
2021 - Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Food Biofunctionality

Prof. Dr. Jan Frank

Secretariat contact: Simone Lendl s.lendl@uni-hohenheim.de
nutres.uni-hohenheim.de/team_de

Research Grants - Doctoral Programmes in Germany (Combination of the enantioselective formation of furan-2-yl carbinols and their laccase-catalyzed Achmatowicz reactions)

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2019-Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry

Dr. Urs Gellrich

Secretariat contact: Franziska Häberle franziska.haeberle@uni-hohenheim.de
organische-chemie.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Advanced seasonal forecasts for the horn of Africa by optimized initialization and perturbation with satellite data

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Physics and Meteorology

Prof. Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer

Secretariat contact: Elisabeth Ott elisabeth.ott@uni-hohenheim.de
physik-meteorologie.uni-hohenheim.de/_mitarbeiter

BRIGHT-Futures: Bright Spots in Agriculture - Learning from today's role models for a sustainable future

 

Region: East Africa, North America, Asia, Europe

Mexico, India, Kenya, Germany

Funding program:
Anton and Petra Ehrmann-Foundation

Funding period:
2024-2031

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems

Prof. Dr. Ingo Grass

Secretariat contact: Eva Schmidt eschmidt@uni-hohenheim.de
agroecology.uni-hohenheim.de/uebersicht-team

Validating the potentials of unconventional feeds on meat and egg production and qualities of poultry for enhanced food security through supply of high value protein

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange service (DAAD), Bilateral SDG Graduate Schools

Funding period:
2022-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Animal Nutrition

Prof. Dr. Markus Rodehutscord

Secretariat contact: Birgit Sprott birgit.sprott@uni-hohenheim.de
ani-nut.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

QuiPack: Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Yield Stability

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sandra M. Schmöckel

Secretariat contact: Lilit Manukyan lilit.manukyan@uni-hohenheim.de
crop-physiology.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

Quinoa as a climate-smart crop diversification option for higher income generation from marginal lands in the Mediterranean

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

Funding period:
2022-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Yield Stability

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sandra M. Schmöckel

Secretariat contact: Lilit Manukyan lilit.manukyan@uni-hohenheim.de
crop-physiology.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

Climate change, cattle herd vulnerability and food insecurity: Adaptation through livestock diversification in the Borana pastoral system of Ethiopia

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange service (DAAD), Fiat Panis Foundation

Funding period:
2015-Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Nutritional Crop Physiology

Prof. Dr. Uwe Ludewig

Secretariat contact: Ursula Berghammer ursula.berghammer@uni-hohenheim.de
phys.uni-hohenheim.de/members-of-staff

Grain quality characteristics of Ethiopian barley genotypes as affected by climate change

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2017- Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Plant Ecology

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Schweiger

Secretariat contact: Patricia Schick patricia.schick@uni-hohenheim.de
ecology.uni-hohenheim.de/106475

Use of plant growth models and seasonal weather forecast for yield stabilization under vulnerable crop cultivation conditions

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Biogeophysics

Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck

Secretariat contact: Sibylle Schulz s_schulz@uni-hohenheim.de
biogeophysik.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeitende-a-z

Minding women’s time: Does time-saving and behavioral interventions change the margins?

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
Baden-Württemberg Elite Program for Postdoctoral Researchers

Funding period:
2022-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Rural Development Theory and Policy

Prof. Dr. Manfred Zeller

Secretariat contact: Katharina Mayer katharina.mayer@uni-hohenheim.de
entwicklungspolitik.uni-hohenheim.de/team-490a

Long-term changes in agricultural technology, food security and rural development in Madagascar

 

Region: East Africa

Madagascar

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG) and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Rural Development Theory and Policy

Prof. Dr. Manfred Zeller

Secretariat contact: Katharina Mayer katharina.mayer@uni-hohenheim.de
entwicklungspolitik.uni-hohenheim.de/team-490a

ProteaChange: Analysis and near-term forecasts of the dynamics of plant communities and plant-animal networks in the South African Fynbos biome

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science

Prof. Dr. Frank Schurr

Secretariat contact: Kristina Mäurle kristina.maeurle@uni-hohenheim.de
ecology.uni-hohenheim.de/105688

InterNiche: The importance of biotic interactions for demography, niches and geographical ranges of South African Proteaceae

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2021 - Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science

Prof. Dr. Frank Schurr

Secretariat contact: Kristina Mäurle kristina.maeurle@uni-hohenheim.de
ecology.uni-hohenheim.de/105688

NetCDA: European Academic Network for Capacity Development in Climate Change Adaptations in Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Funding period:
2024-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Bioeconomy

Prof. Dr. Franziska Schünemann

Secretariat contact: Alina Rossa alina.rossa@uni-hohenheim.de
bioecon.uni-hohenheim.de/fs

Ecological interactions of cereals with root-associated microorganisms with crop health promoting features

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Plant Production in the Tropics and Subtropics

PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Secretariat contact: Gabriele Kircher gabriele_kircher@uni-hohenheim.de
490e.uni-hohenheim.de/team-490e

Stiftung Lengerich: Strengthening farmer cooperatives in Rwanda through participatory development of PV-powered postharvest processing of maize

 

Region: East Africa

Rwanda

Funding program:
Seedling the Future Foundation

Funding period:
2024-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

Biostar-Cirad: Sustainable bioenergy for small agri-food businesses in rural West Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Burkina Faso, Senegal

Funding program:
French Development Agency - AFD, European Union

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

CLIFOOD: German-Ethiopian SDG Graduate School: Climate Change Effects on Food Security - Subproject: Phase 2

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange service (DAAD), Bilateral SDG Graduate Schools

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

Bilateral SDG Graduate School “Climate Change Effects on Food Security” (CLIFOOD)

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

COINS - Collaborative Project Land Management Sub-Saharan Africa: Joint Development of Innovations for Sustainable Land Management in Smallholder Farms in West Africa - Subproject 5: Knowledge Systems to Support SI Measures in Agricultural Reality

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana, Senegal

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Funding period:
2022-2026

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Communication and Advisory Services in Rural Areas

Prof. Dr. Andrea Knierim

Secretariat contact: Regina Jungreitmeier regina.jungreitmeier@uni-hohenheim.de
430a.uni-hohenheim.de/team

CANALLS: Driving agroecological transitions in the humid tropics of Central and Eastern Africa through transdisciplinary Agroecology Living Labs

 

Region: Central and East Africa

Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda

Funding program:
European Union

Funding period:
2023-2026

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Communication and Advisory Services in Rural Areas

Prof. Dr. Andrea Knierim

Secretariat contact: Regina Jungreitmeier regina.jungreitmeier@uni-hohenheim.de
430a.uni-hohenheim.de/team

QuiPack: Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
PRIMA

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Research Center for Health Sciences – One Health

Dr. Irene Huber

Secretariat contact: Katrin Braun katrin.braun@uni-hohenheim.de
health.uni-hohenheim.de/geschaeftsstelle

DecLaRe: Fostering land evaluation and decision making in West Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Benin, Ghana

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Funding period:
2022-2026

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Soil Science and Pedology

Prof. Dr. Ludger Herrmann

Secretariat contact: Nadine Brunsmann nadine.brunsmann@uni-hohenheim.de
bodenchemie-pedologie.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeitende-a-z

Exploring new pathways of agro-ecological intensification of millet-based subsistence-oriented agriculture in Niger

 

Region: West Africa

Niger

Funding program:
McKnight Foundation

Funding period:
2019-2026

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Soil Science and Pedology

Prof. Dr. Ludger Herrmann

Secretariat contact: Nadine Brunsmann nadine.brunsmann@uni-hohenheim.de
bodenchemie-pedologie.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeitende-a-z

CANALLS: Driving agroecological transitions in the humid tropics of Central and Eastern Africa through transdisciplinary Agroecology Living Labs

 

Region: Central and East Africa

Congo, Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda

Funding program:
European Union

Funding period:
2023-2026

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems (GFE)

Dr. Hycenth Tim Ndah

Secretariat contact: Susanne Braunschweiger susanne.braunschweiger-fink@uni-hohenheim.de
gfe.uni-hohenheim.de/en/staff

INCrease: Indigenous and neglected crops (INC) promotion for resilient food systems in Southern Africa

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

Funding period:
2023-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems (GFE)

Dr. Hycenth Tim Ndah

Secretariat contact: Susanne Braunschweiger susanne.braunschweiger-fink@uni-hohenheim.de
gfe.uni-hohenheim.de/en/staff

Leg4Dev: Legume-based agroecological intensification of maize and cassava cropping systems in Sub-Saharan Africa for water-food-energy nexus sustainability, nutritional security & livelihood resilience in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia & Malawi.

 

Region: Southern and East Africa

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi

Funding program:
European Union and Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)

Funding period:
2020-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. George Cadisch

Secretariat contact: Gabriele Kircher gabriele_kircher@uni-hohenheim.de
490e.uni-hohenheim.de/team-490e

SustainSAHEL: Synergetic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel. WP7 Scenario modelling of CSL systems

 

Region: West Africa

Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal

Funding program:
European Union Horizon 2020

Funding period:
2020-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. George Cadisch

Secretariat contact: Gabriele Kircher gabriele_kircher@uni-hohenheim.de
490e.uni-hohenheim.de/team-490e

Impact of Agricultural Mechanization Services on Sustainable Pesticide Use: A Case Study of Smallholder Potato Farmers in Tanzania

 

Region: East Africa

Tanzania

Funding program:

Funding period:
2023-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. Regina Birner

Secretariat contact: Linn Doppler linn.doppler@uni-hohenheim.de
490c.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Institutional analysis of rangeland carbon projects in Sout Africa and Kenya

 

Region: Southern and East Africa

South Africa, Kenya

Funding program:

Funding period:
2023-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. Regina Birner

Secretariat contact: Linn Doppler linn.doppler@uni-hohenheim.de
490c.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Performance evaluation of medium horsepower tractors and planters used for small-scale conservation tillage and crop protection systems in Eastern Africa

 

Region: East Africa

Kenya, Ethiopia

Funding program:

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. Regina Birner

Secretariat contact: Linn Doppler linn.doppler@uni-hohenheim.de
490c.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Sustainable livestock production: The case of smallholder Agricultural Carbon Projects in Kenya

 

Region: East Africa

Kenya

Funding program:

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. Regina Birner

Secretariat contact: Linn Doppler linn.doppler@uni-hohenheim.de
490c.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Climate change and intergenerational persistence of poverty and malnutrition

 

Region: East Africa

Ethiopia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) / CLIFOOD Phase 2: German-Ethiopian SDG Graduate School "Climate Change Effects on Food Security (CLIFOOD)"

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Land Use Economics in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger

Secretariat contact: Diana Veit d.veit@uni-hohenheim.de
landuse-economics.uni-hohenheim.de/our-team

Anton & Petra Ehrmann-Stiftung Graduierten Kolleg "Wasser - Menschen - Landwirtschaft"

 

Region: Europe, Asia, Africa, Southern America

 

Funding program:
Anton and Petra Ehrmann-Foundation

Funding period:
2013-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Management of Crop Water Stress in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch

Secretary contact: office490g@uni-hohenheim.de
cwsm.uni-hohenheim.de/en

Sustainable production of biomass for industrial purposes in Africa

 

Region: Central Africa

Congo

Funding program:
Heidelberg Cement

Funding period:
2020-Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Management of Crop Water Stress in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch

Secretary contact: office490g@uni-hohenheim.de
cwsm.uni-hohenheim.de/en

Sustainable food production in Namibia: Definitions, status quo and internationalisation

 

Region: Southern Africa

Namibia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2022-2026

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

Assistant: Beate Hammer beate.hammer@uni-hohenheim.de
apo.uni-hohenheim.de

INCrease: Indigenous and neglected crops (INC) promotion for resilient food systems in Southern Africa

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

Funding period:
2023-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

Assistant: Beate Hammer beate.hammer@uni-hohenheim.de
apo.uni-hohenheim.de