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The University of Hohenheim in Africa

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Research training group “Water - People - Agriculture”
	Funding program: Anton & Petra Ehrmann Foundation: Funding period: 2013-2025	Contact: Hans Ruthenberg Institute (490g) Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch Dr. Marcus Giese M.Sc. Alexandra Schappert Additional information

Developing methodologies to assess the impacts of climate and land use change on ecosystem services along rural-urban gradients in Africa
	Funding program: Africa as a Topic at the Universities of Hohenheim and Tübingen Cooperation partner(s): University of Tübingen Funding period: 2021	Contact: Hans Ruthenberg Institute (490g) Dr. Marc Cotter

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
	Funding program: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Cooperation partner(s): ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute)	Contact: Hans Ruthenberg Institute (490h) Prof. Dr. Anne Valle Zárate

Promotion of solar refrigeration for agricultural value-chains
	Funding program: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Funding period: 2018-2019	Contact: Dept. of Food Chemistry (170b) Farah Mrabet Ana Alejandra Salvatierra-Rojas

Task Force Rural Africa
	Funding program: EU Commission Cooperation partner(s): African Union Funding period: 05/2018-03/2019	Contact: Dept. of Agricultural and Food Policy (420a) Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck Additional information

Evaluation and optimization of enzymatic cassava roots peeling
	Funding program: fiat panis Foundation Funding period: 2015-2017	Contact: Dept. of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics (440e) Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller Dr. Sajid Latif


Overnutrition and Obesity in Africa
	Funding program: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Funding period: 2017	Contact: Hans Ruthenberg Institute (420a and 420b) Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban

GlobE: Biomass Web – Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs (WP 5.1)
	Funding program: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Cooperation partner(s): Research Center Jülich Institute for Plant Science, University of Bonn Center for Development Research (ZEF), Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Science Bonn (INRES-CSB) Consideo, Lübe Funding period: 1 July 2013 - 30 July 2016	Contact: Dept. of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics (440e) M.Sc. Bilhate Chala M.Sc. Kiatkamjon Intani Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller Dr. Sajid Latif

Activating institutional innovations for hunger and poverty reduction: Potential of applied international agricultural research
	Funding program: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Funding period: 2011-2013	Contact: Hans Ruthenberg Institute (490c) Dr. Josey Kamanda Prof. Dr. Regina Birner

Fe-Tox-WARDA – Screening of lowland rice varieties for iron toxicity responses
	Funding program: The Africa Rice Center Cooperation partner(s): The Africa Rice Center – WARDA Funding period: 2009-2010	Contact: Hans Ruthenberg Institute (490g) Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch

Contact

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda
Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics (490h)
+49 711 459 24210
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Hohenheim Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems
Carolin Callenius
0711 459 23543
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