Southern Africa

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

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

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

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

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 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

CESSARi - Cystic Echinococcosis in sub-Saharan Africa Research Initiative (Epidemiology and clinical implications of the genetic diversity of Echinococcus spp. in eastern and southern Africa)

 

Region: North, East and Southern Africa

Countries (phase 1) Kenya, Sudan, South Africa, Uganda. Countries (phase 2): Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia. Countries (phase 3): Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Zambia

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG), Deutsch-afrikanische Kooperationsprojekte in der Infektiologie

Funding period:
2009-2018

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Parasitology

Prof. Dr. Ute Mackenstedt

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

Metagenomics identification, characterization and product development of novel microbial surfactants from Germany and South Africa as biosurfactants for commercial application

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2017-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Bioprocess Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hausmann

Secretariat contact: Anja Sander bvt@uni-hohenheim.de
bioverfahrenstechnik.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Aquaculture and the poor: improving fish production, consumption and nutrition linkages

 

Region: Southern Africa

Zambia

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2014-2017

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Nutritional Science

Prof. Dr. habil. Katrin Giller

Secretariat contact: Nilza Andrade-Binder nilza.andrade-binder@uni-hohenheim.de
molnutsci.uni-hohenheim.de/katrin-giller

PARI: Supporting dairy value chains and smallholder agricultural mechanization in Ghana, Kenya, Tunisia and Zambia: Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation

 

Region: West, North, East and Southern Africa

Ghana, Tunisia, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2015-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Nutrition and Rangeland Management in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Uta Dickhöfer

Secretariat contact: Elke Schmidt elke.schmidt@uni-hohenheim.de
aninutrop.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Agricultural development pathways for nutrition-sensitive and biodiversity-friendly landscapes in Africa

 

Region: Southern Africa

Zambia

Funding program:
Fiat Panis Foundation

Funding period:
2023-2024

Status:
Closed

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

Feodor-Lynen stipend: The interplay of large grazing ungulates, woody, and grassy vegetation in a South African savanna

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
Feodor-Lynen Foundation

Funding period:
2011-2013

Status:
Closed

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

SALLNet: South African Limpopo Landscapes Network, Subproject "Orchards, biodiversity and ecosystem services"

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

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

Funding period:
2018-2021

Status:
Closed

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

Immunoprophylaxis and molecular epidemiology of anthrax and the fate of Bacillus anthracis in living vectors and the environment of Namibia and South Africa

 

Region: Southern Africa

Namibia, South Africa

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2009-2014

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Livestock Infectiology and Environmental Hygiene

Prof. Dr. med. vet. Ludwig E. Hölzle

Secretariat contact: Ms. Bettina Pfeiffer bettina.pfeiffer@uni-hohenheim.de
umwelthygiene-tierhygiene.uni-hohenheim.de/hoelzle

Proteaceae: research and management priorities in a changing world

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

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

Funding period:
2012

Status:
Closed

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

Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

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

Funding period:
2007-2010

Status:
Closed

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

ProteaBird: Spatial determinants of animal pollination and long-term plant fecundity in South African Fynbos: the Protea-bird system

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2011-2015

Status:
Closed

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

DynNiche: Demographic, functional and macroevolutionary determinants of range dynamics and large-scale ecological niches in South African Proteaceae

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2012-2015

Status:
Closed

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

ProteaNet: Protea networks in time and space: resource-driven dynamics of interacting plant, pollinator and seed predator communities in South African Fynbos

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2017-2020

Status:
Closed

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

SURMOUNT: Structural Transformation and the Role of Women for Sustainable Intensification in Sub-Saharan African Agriculture

 

Region: West, Central, East and Southern Africa

 

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2023-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Bioeconomy

Prof. Dr. Franziska Schünemann

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

Evaluation and optimization of enzymatic cassava roots peeling

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Fiat Panis Foundation

Funding period:
2015-2017

Status:
Closed

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

Biomass Web: Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs

 

Region: Africa

 

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

Funding period:
2013-2016

Status:
Closed

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

Solar cooling solutions in the dairy value chain in Zambia

 

Region: Southern Africa

Zambia

Funding program:
German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ) & Green Innovation Centres in the Agricultural and Food Industry

Funding period:
2019-2020

Status:
Closed

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

Sowing the seeds of success: new models for selection and large-scale dissemination of best-fit varieties by Zambian smallholder farmers

 

Region: Southern Africa

Zambia

Funding program:
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA

Funding period:
2021-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Plant Breeding

Prof. Dr. Bettina I.G. Haussmann

Secretariat contact: Helga Kösling i350a@uni-hohenheim.de
plant-breeding.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Auf dem Weg zu einem besseren Verständnis der Genotyp-Resilienz einheimischer Rinder in der sich verändernden klimatischen Umgebung und in den intensivierten Nutztierproduktionssystemen in Afrika südlich der Sahara

 

Region: West, Central, East and Southern Africa

 

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2023-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Gender-dynamik in westafrikanischen familiengeführten Geflügelproduktionssystemen und Auswirkungen auf die Intensivierung

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2023-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Linking human wellbeing and ethics of sustainibility to resilient livestock managemant systems in Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

Funding period:
2021-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Linking human wellbeing and ethics of sustainibility to resilient livestock managemant systems in Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

Funding period:
2021-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Safe food, fair food: Building capacity to improve the safety of animal source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Region: West, East and Southern Africa

Ivory Coast, Ehiopioa, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2008-2011

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Innov8Health

 

Region: East and Southern Africa

Malawi, Kanya, Namibia

Funding program:
Baden-Württemberg-Foundation

Funding period:
2021-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

LEAP4FNSSA: Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
European Commission - H2020

Funding period:
2018-2022

Status:
Closed

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

Activating institutional innovations for hunger and poverty reduction: Potential of applied international agricultural research

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Funding period:
2011-2013

Status:
Closed

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

Development potential of smallholder livestock production systems in Zambia

 

Region: Southern Africa

Zambia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2015-2018

Status:
Closed

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

Mechanized Conservation Agriculture

 

Region: Southern Africa

Zambia

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2018-2021

Status:
Closed

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

PARI: Program of accompanying research for agricultural Innovation

 

Region: West, East, and Southern Africa, Asia

Benin, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, India

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2014-2022

Status:
Closed

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

Development of sustainable water and energy solutions for farms in South Africa, Subproject 2: Agro-economic evaluation

 

Region: Southern Africa

South Africa

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

Funding period:
2019-2021

Status:
Closed

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

Entwicklung von Methoden zur Bewertung der Auswirkungen des Klima- und Landnutzungswandels auf ökosystemare Dienstleistungen entlang rural-urbaner Gradienten in Afrika

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Themenkomplex Afrika der Universitäten Hohenheim und Tübingen

Funding period:
2021

Status:
Closed

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

The role of multi-actor partnerships for achieving a higher degree of sustainability in cross-border agri-food supply chains

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2019-2020

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

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

Task Force Rural Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
EU Commission

Funding period:
2018-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

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