Projects of "To enhance the tolerance of crop species to selected abiotic stresses and so increase agricultural productivity and reduce risk in unfavorable agricultural environments."
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Abiotic stress tolerant maize for increasing income and food security among the poor in eastern India and Bangladesh - Details of Abiotic stress tolerant maize for increasing income and food security among the poor in eastern India and Bangladesh
Executive Institute: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Details of
Contract period: 2008 - 2010
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Arresting the scourge of striga on sorghum in Africa by combining the strengths of marker-assisted backcrossing and farmer-participatory selection - Details of Arresting the scourge of striga on sorghum in Africa by combining the strengths of marker-assisted backcrossing and farmer-participatory selection
Executive Institute: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Details of
Contract period: 2004 - 2007
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Asco Seq: The complete sequencing of the genome of the chickpea pathogen Ascochyta rabiei and an in-depth analysis of its transcriptome - Details of Asco Seq: The complete sequencing of the genome of the chickpea pathogen Ascochyta rabiei and an in-depth analysis of its transcriptome
Executive Institute: Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main Details of Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main (Hesse)
Contract period: 2010 - 2012
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Characterization of the pathogen population structure of bacterial leaf blight of rice in West Africa as a prerequisite for the identification and deployment of durable resistance - Details of Characterization of the pathogen population structure of bacterial leaf blight of rice in West Africa as a prerequisite for the identification and deployment of durable resistance
Executive Institute: The African Rice Center (WARDA) Details of
Contract period: 2008 - 2010
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Classical biological control: mitigating consequences of the convention on biological diversity and property rights - Details of Classical biological control: mitigating consequences of the convention on biological diversity and property rights
Executive Institute: African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE) Details of
Contract period: 2007 - 2008
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Developing and disseminating stress tolerant maize for sustainable food security in eastern and central Africa - Details of Developing and disseminating stress tolerant maize for sustainable food security in eastern and central Africa
Executive Institute: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Details of
Contract period: 2007 - 2010
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Evaluation and application of advanced tools for molecular breeding for drought and salinity tolerance in chickpea - Details of Evaluation and application of advanced tools for molecular breeding for drought and salinity tolerance in chickpea
Executive Institute: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Details of
Contract period: 2009 - 2010
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Expanding biological control of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L. in Eastern and Southern Africa - Details of Expanding biological control of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L. in Eastern and Southern Africa
Executive Institute: African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE) Details of
Contract period: 2004 - 2006
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Fighting drought and aluminum toxicity: Integrating functional genomics, phenotypic screening and participatory evaluation with women and small-scale farmers to develop stress-resistant common bean and Brachiaria for the tropics - Details of Fighting drought and aluminum toxicity: Integrating functional genomics, phenotypic screening and participatory evaluation with women and small-scale farmers to develop stress-resistant common bean and Brachiaria for the tropics
Executive Institute: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Details of
Contract period: 2006 - 2010
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Food and water security under global change: Developing adaptive capacity with a foucs on rural Africa - Details of Food and water security under global change: Developing adaptive capacity with a foucs on rural Africa
Executive Institute: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Details of
Contract period: 2005 - 2008
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
From genes to farmers’ fields: enhancing and stabilizing productivity of rice in submergence prone environments - Details of From genes to farmers’ fields: enhancing and stabilizing productivity of rice in submergence prone environments
Executive Institute: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Details of
Contract period: 2004 - 2006
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Generating a framework for strategic improvement and adoption of superior dual-purpose (groundnut) cultivars in mixed crop livestock systems in drought prone areas - Details of Generating a framework for strategic improvement and adoption of superior dual-purpose (groundnut) cultivars in mixed crop livestock systems in drought prone areas
Executive Institute: International Livestock Research Institute - Kenia (ILRI) Details of
Contract period: 2010 - 2011
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Improving field resistance of wheat against Fusarium Head Blight and mitigating the amount of mycotoxin in the grain - Details of Improving field resistance of wheat against Fusarium Head Blight and mitigating the amount of mycotoxin in the grain
Executive Institute: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Details of
Contract period: 2009 - 2012
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Individual and combined effects of five quantitative trait loci on resistance to the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica in Sorghum bicolor under field conditions in Mali and Sudan - Details of Individual and combined effects of five quantitative trait loci on resistance to the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica in Sorghum bicolor under field conditions in Mali and Sudan
Executive Institute: University of Hohenheim (UH) Details of (Baden-Württemberg)
Contract period: 2009 - 2011
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Less loss, more profit, better health: reducing the losses caused by the pod borer (Maruca vitrata) on Vegetable legumes in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by refining component technologies of a sustainable management strategy - Details of Less loss, more profit, better health: reducing the losses caused by the pod borer (Maruca vitrata) on Vegetable legumes in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by refining component technologies of a sustainable management strategy
Executive Institute: The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC) Details of
Contract period: 2010 - 2013
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Mitigating the impact of climate change on rice disease resistance in East Africa - Details of Mitigating the impact of climate change on rice disease resistance in East Africa
Executive Institute: The African Rice Center (WARDA) Details of
Contract period: 2010 - 2012
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Precision phenotyping for improving drought stress tolerant maize in southern Asia and eastern Africa - Details of Precision phenotyping for improving drought stress tolerant maize in southern Asia and eastern Africa
Executive Institute: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Details of
Contract period: 2009 - 2011
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Rice and global climate change: candidate genes for preventing heat- and drought-induced yield losses due to spikelet sterility - Details of Rice and global climate change: candidate genes for preventing heat- and drought-induced yield losses due to spikelet sterility
Executive Institute: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Details of
Contract period: 2008 - 2010
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
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 - Details of 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
Executive Institute: University of Hohenheim (UH) Details of (Baden-Württemberg)
Contract period: 2010 - 2012
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)
Utilization of wild relatives of wheat in developing salinity tolerant winter wheat with improved quality for Central Asia - Details of Utilization of wild relatives of wheat in developing salinity tolerant winter wheat with improved quality for Central Asia
Executive Institute: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Details of
Contract period: 2010 - 2012
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of BMZ
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of (BEAF - GIZ)