PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 18 June 2019SESASA - A Social-Ecological System Approach towards a Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa SESASA aims at developing a "system of systems (SoS)" for assessing agricultural land-use-and-management-change scenarios and provide adaptive feed-back. SESASA will connect farmer responses to social, economic...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 18 June 2019AFRICA-MILK - Promote ecological intensification and inclusive value chains forsustainable African milk sourcing Today in Africa, demand for dairy products is rising. However, dairies have difficulties to source local milk in terms of volume, regularity and quality.Sustainability of dairy production, contribution...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 18 June 2019Pest-Free-Fruit - Sustainable intensification of fruit production systems throughinnovative pest bio-control technologies In sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable intensification of fruit production is affected by pests that strongly impact food and nutrition security. The invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, is a permanent threat...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019InnovAfrica - Innovations in Technology, Institutional and Extension Approaches towards Sustainable Agriculture and enhanced Food and Nutritional Security in Africa Food and nutrition security (FNS) remains a challenge for Africa, despite efforts made in agricultural research and extension in the past, due to inefficient implementation and exchange of technologies and knowledge...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019NUTRIFOODS - Innovative approaches to value addition and commercialization of climate smart crops for enhanced food security and nutrition in Africa and beyond NUTRIFOODS seeks solutions on how to increase the use of Climate Smart Food Crops (CSFC) in baked products to provide nutritionally-rich food that meets consumer needs while...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019LEARN - Long-term Europe-Africa Research Network Sustainable intensification of livestock systems is essential to feed the rapidly growing world population. One of the key principles of sustainable intensification is "resilience to future shocks and stresses of disease...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019MUSBCEA - Multi-sectoral strategy for brucellosis control in Eastern Africa Brucellosis is a key zoonotic disease affecting the livelihoods of many poor resource people particularly Sub Saharan Africa. It’s constraining the health and productivity of livestock leading...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019ATMA4FS - Agricultural Trade and Market Access for Food Security: MicroandMacro-level Insights for Africa Agri-food markets in Africa are not well integrated at the local, region-al an international level, with trade barriers hampering exports/imports as well as the value chain development. Trade...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019SmallFishFood - Small Fish and Food Security: Towards innovative integration of fish in African food systems to improve nutrition The SmallFishFoodconsortium is a multidisciplinary research team from Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, covering the fields of fish stock assessment, processing, marketing, nutrition, risk assessment...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 17 June 2019Food4Cities - Exploring food system transformations in rapidly changing African cities Food insecurity and malnutrition, once restricted mainly to rural areas, are spreading rapidly in Africa’s expanding cities. Conventional production-based responses from the agricultural sector will...