West 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

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

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

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

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

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

Food Security Center

 

Region: West and East Africa

West and East Africa

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation

Funding period:
2009-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Food Security Center

Dr. Nicole Schönleber

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

BiomassWeb: Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs - WP 6.3 Global Utilization of Biomass, Locally adapted solutions

 

Region: West and East Africa

West and East Africa

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

Funding period:
2013-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Food Security Center

Dr. Nicole Schönleber

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

NutritionSec: Food and Nutrition Security and Right to Food

 

Region: West and East Africa

West and East Africa

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2017-2020

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Food Security Center

Dr. Nicole Schönleber

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

Nutritional status and dietary intake of macro-and micronutrients by season: cross sectional studies among farmer pairs and their children (6 to 24 months) in Southern Sierra Leone

 

Region: West Africa

Sierra Leone

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2018-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Food Biofunctionality

Prof. Dr. Jan Frank

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

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

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

Funding period:
2013-2018

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

Underutilized or unprotected? New methods for analyzing diverging perspectives on the large-scale conversion of tropical grassland ecosystems

 

Region: West Africa

Guinea

Funding program:
Ellrichshausen Foundation

Funding period:
2016-2018

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

Field evaluation of high- and low-tech tissue culture media derived plantain seedlings (Musa AAB) in grower’s community

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

Funding period:
2012

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

Understanding the present distribution of parasitic weeds of the genus Striga and predicting its potential future geographic distribution in the light of climate and land use change

 

Region: West Africa

Mali, Niger

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

Funding period:
2010-2012

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

Achieving sustainable Striga control for poor farmers in Africa. Biocontrol using Fusarium oxysporum sp strigaea.

 

Region: West and East Africa

Nigeria, Kenya

Funding program:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Funding period:
2011-2014

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

Simulations and Techno-Economic Assessment for Thermochemical Conversions of Some Tropical Lignocellulosic Biomass

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2018-2021

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources

Prof. Dr. Andrea Kruse

Secretariat contact: Veronika Ege V.Ege@uni-hohenheim.de
konversionstechnologie.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeiter

Development of Carbon Materials for Microbial Fuel Cells

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2018-2021

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources

Prof. Dr. Andrea Kruse

Secretariat contact: Veronika Ege V.Ege@uni-hohenheim.de
konversionstechnologie.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeiter

Critical periods for weed control in maize

 

Region: West Africa

Benin

Funding program:
German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ)

Funding period:
2010-2014

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Weed Science

Prof. Dr. Roland Gerhards

Secretariat contact: phytomedizin.uni-hohenheim.de/en/69561

Biopesticides: botanicals and microorganisms for improving agriculture and human health (Book Project)

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

Funding period:
2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Phytopathology

Prof. Dr. Ralf. T. Vögele

Secretariat contact: Sarkar Monika monika.sarkar@uni-hohenheim.de
phytomedizin.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeiter-phytopathologie2

Molecular identification of Nigerian rice for mycotoxigenic fungi

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

Funding period:
2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Phytopathology

Prof. Dr. Ralf. T. Vögele

Secretariat contact: Sarkar Monika monika.sarkar@uni-hohenheim.de
phytomedizin.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeiter-phytopathologie2

Spatial and temporal variability of root exudate effects on rhizosphere soil microbial community of Nigerian maize

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

Funding period:
2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Phytopathology

Prof. Dr. Ralf. T. Vögele

Secretariat contact: Sarkar Monika monika.sarkar@uni-hohenheim.de
phytomedizin.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeiter-phytopathologie2

Innovative Propagation Techniques in Banana and Plantain

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

Funding period:
2013-2016

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Specialty Crops

Dr. Michael Hagemann

Secretariat contact: Barbara Krause fg340f@uni-hohenheim.de
horticulture.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Banana weevil borer (Cosmopolites sordidus): Plant defense responses and Control options

 

Region: West and East Africa

Ghana, Uganda

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

Funding period:
2013-2017

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Specialty Crops

Dr. Michael Hagemann

Secretariat contact: Barbara Krause fg340f@uni-hohenheim.de
horticulture.uni-hohenheim.de/team

BiomassWeb: Verbesserung der Ernährungssicherheit in Afrika durch erhöhte Systemproduktivität von biomassebasierten Wertschöpfungsnetzen

 

Region: West and East Africa

Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia

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

Funding period:
2013-2018

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Specialty Crops

Dr. Michael Hagemann

Secretariat contact: Barbara Krause fg340f@uni-hohenheim.de
horticulture.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Eco-physiological studies on False Horn plantain

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
Self funded PhD project

Funding period:
2016-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Specialty Crops

Dr. Michael Hagemann

Secretariat contact: Barbara Krause fg340f@uni-hohenheim.de
horticulture.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Restoration of degraded mined sites for agricultural production in Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

Funding period:
2015-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Specialty Crops

Dr. Michael Hagemann

Secretariat contact: Barbara Krause fg340f@uni-hohenheim.de
horticulture.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Mercury - AMF: Phytoremediation of Mercury-contaminated Mining Sites in Ghana and Burkina Faso Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana, Burkina Faso

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

Funding period:
2019-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Specialty Crops

Dr. Michael Hagemann

Secretariat contact: Barbara Krause fg340f@uni-hohenheim.de
horticulture.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Phytochemical characterization, antioxidant properties and the mechanism of actions of extracts of three Nigerian grown S medicinal plants used in the management of Type 2 diabet

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

Funding period:
2019-2020

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Plant Product Quality

Prof. Dr. Christian Zörb

Secretariat contact: Lilit Manukyan lilit.manukyan@uni-hohenheim.de
fg-qualitaet-pflanzlicher-erzeugnisse.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

Assessing the impact of improved rice-based technology adoption on household food security in The Gambia

 

Region: West Africa

Gambia

Funding program:
Global Rice Science Partnership - GRiSP, led by the International Rice Research Institute

Funding period:
2012-2015

Status:
Closed

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

Impact of fertilizer subsidy program on farm level productivity and food security: A case study of rice producers in northern Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
Global Rice Science Partnership - GRiSP, led by the International Rice Research Institute

Funding period:
2012-2015

Status:
Closed

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

BiomassWeb: Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs - WP 6.3 Global Utilization of Biomass, Locally adapted solutions

 

Region: West and East Africa

Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria

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

Funding period:
2013-2018

Status:
Closed

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

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

LANDYN: Land and labour dynamics in the future of African transformation

 

Region: West and East Africa

Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2020-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Bioeconomy

Prof. Dr. Franziska Schünemann

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

FP cold room tomatoes: Development and testing of a humidity control system for the storage of tomatoes in a solar cold room in Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria

Funding program:
Fiat Panis Foundation

Funding period:
2022-2023

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

soCo-Westafrika: Application of solar cooling devices for a better quality and safety management of perishable foods in West Afrika

 

Region: West Africa

Benin

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2023-2024

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

Performance optimization of a solar press for the productive extraction of sesame oil in Burkina Faso

 

Region: West Africa

Burkina Faso

Funding program:
German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ)

Funding period:
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

Leistungsoptimierung einer Solarpresse für die produktive Extraktion von Sesamöl in Burkina Faso

 

Region: West Africa

Burkina Faso

Funding program:
German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ)

Funding period:
2016-2018

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

Strengthening post-harvest processes in Africa using improved solar drying

 

Region: West and East Africa

Ghana, Kenya, Burkina Faso

Funding program:
German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ)

Funding period:
2017-2018

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

Solare Milchkühlung

 

Region: West and East Africa

Kenya, Mali

Funding program:
German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ)

Funding period:
2018-2019

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

SMIL- Seedball: Enhancing the yield effect in pearl millet and sorghum and disseminating the technology in West Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Niger

Funding program:
United States Agency for International Development - USAID, Kansas State University

Funding period:
2019-2021

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

SERVInnov: Strengthening innovation support services to enhance innovations for sustainable food production, ensuring well-being of rural populations and reducing environmental degradation and resource depletion

 

Region: West, Central and East Africa

Cameroon, Madagascar, Burkina Faso

Funding program:
Long-term EU – Africa Partnership in Sustainable Agriculture - LEAP-Agri

Funding period:
2018-2021

Status:
Closed

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

Seedball – SMIL: The seed ball technology - a transdisciplinary approach to its development and implementation into Sahelian pearl millet production systems

 

Region: West Africa

Niger

Funding program:
United States Agency for International Development - USAID

Funding period:
2019-2022

Status:
Closed

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

Seedball – SMIL: The seed ball technology - a transdisciplinary approach to its development and implementation into Sahelian pearl millet production systems

 

Region: West Africa

Niger, Senegal

Funding program:
United States Agency for International Development - USAID

Funding period:
2014-2017 & 2019-2022

Status:
Closed

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

Mobilizing regional diversity for creating new potential for pearl millet and sorghum farmers in West and Central Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal

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

Funding period:
2006-2010

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

Tackling abiotic production constraints in pearl millet and sorghum-based agricultural systems of the West African Sahel

 

Region: West Africa

Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal

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

Funding period:
2010-2013

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

Easy molecular breeding tools for accelerating sorghum improvement in West Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Mali, Nigeria

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

Funding period:
2014-2016

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

Bringing the benefits of heterosis to smallholder sorghum and pearl millet farmers in West Africa: Establishing a solid foundation for hybrid development

 

Region: West Africa

Niger, Senegal

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

Funding period:
2014-2017

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

Building a Community of Practice to foster agroecological transformation of sorghum and pearl millet based production systems in West Africa

 

Region: West Africa

Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali

Funding program:
Collaborative Crop Research Program of the McKnight Foundation

Funding period:
2011-2022

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

Contribution of local cattle breeds to household income and food security in southern Mali

 

Region: West Africa

Mali

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
-

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

Mercury-AMF: Phytoremediation of mercury contaminated mining sites in Ghana and Burkina Faso with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana, Burkina Faso

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

Funding period:
2019-2022

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

Improving the micronutrient status of children 12 to 24 months of age

 

Region: West Africa

Sierra Leone

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Foundation Fiat Panis

Funding period:
2010

Status:
Closed

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

Restoration of degraded mined sites for agricultural production in Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Foundation Fiat Panis

Funding period:
2015

Status:
Closed

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

Achieving sustainable Striga control for poor farmers in Africa. Biocontrol using Fusarium oxysporum sp strigaea

 

Region: West and East Africa

Nigeria, Kenya

Funding program:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Funding period:
2011-2014

Status:
Closed

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

CONNEcting knowledge, scales and actors; An integrated framework for adaptive organic resource management, targeting soil aggradation and agroeco-systems’ resilience in Sub Saharan Africa”. 2014-2017

 

Region: West and East Africa

Kenya, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and German Aerospace Center (DLR) Conessa EU-ERAfrica

Funding period:
2014-2017

Status:
Closed

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

Mercury-AMF: Phytoremediation of mercury contaminated mining sites in Ghana and Burkina Faso with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Subproject 1: Genetic characterization of potential AMF candidates in Ghana and Burkina Faso; Subproject 3: Evaluation of AMF plant systems in Burkina Faso

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana, Burkina Faso

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

Funding period:
2019-2022

Status:
Closed

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

Deforestation, cocoa production and food security in Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

Intra-household resource allocation and cooperation

 

Region: West Africa

Burkina Faso

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2017-2021

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

Investigating the institutional environment that influences the linkages between cocoa farming and artisanal small-scale mining in Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA - Research Network on Sustainable Global Supply Chains)

Funding period:
2020-2023

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

ICT applications in livestock production

 

Region: West and East Africa

Kenya, Nigeria

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2020-2023

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

Options for mechanizing smallholder production systems in Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
John Deere Company

Funding period:
2014

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

PEBAP: Promoting participatory and evidence-based agricultural policy processes in Africa

 

Region: West and East Africa

Ghana, Senegal, Uganda

Funding program:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Funding period:
2014-2017

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

Governance of emerging biomass-based value webs in Africa: Case Studies from Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

Funding period:
2014-2017

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

Governance and institutional challenges of an emerging agrobiomass sector in Ghana

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

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

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

AMF-Mercury: Phytoremediation of Mercury-contaminated Mining Sites in Ghana and Burkina Faso Using Arbuscular

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana, Burkina Faso

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

Funding period:
2019-2022

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

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

Fe-Tox-WARDA: Screening of lowland rice varieties for iron toxicity responses

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana

Funding program:
The Africa Rice Center

Funding period:
2009-2010

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

RISOCAS: Developing rice and sorghum crop adaptation strategies for climate change in vulnerable environments in Africa

 

Region: West and East Africa

Senegal, Mali, Madagascar

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

Funding period:
2009-2011

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

Hynovation: Hydroponie als innovativer Ansatz für nachhaltiges Land - und Ressourcenmanagement in der urbanen Nahrungsmittelproduktion

 

Region: West Africa and Middle East

Ghana, Jordan

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

Funding period:
2018-2019

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

Fonds for Agricultural Policy and Innovation: Mapping agricultural trade within the ECOWAS Region: structure and flow of agricultural products, barriers to trade, financing gaps and policy options

 

Region: West Africa

 

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and German Agency for International Collaboration (GIZ)

Funding period:
2020-2021

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

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

The impact of different poultry trade policies on chicken meat value chains in African countries: Insights from Ghana and Senegal

 

Region: West Africa

Ghana, Senegal

Funding program:

Funding period:
2020-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

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

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

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

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