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SFB 564: E3.1 - Market potential of high-value agricultural products as a determinant for rural development in Northern Thailand and Vietnam (Project)

The objective of this project is to evaluate markets and marketing systems relevant for assessing the potential of specific agricultural products in the rapidly changing rural environment of northern Thailand and Vietnam. The project aims (1) to evaluate the market potential of high value fruit products (mango, lychee, longan which are the subject of research in subproject D1), (2) to assess the...


Funding period: 2000 - 2003

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Research into the sensitivity of fragmentation metrics (Project)

Overall objective of this study is to research into the sensitivity of fragmentation metrics to the factors described above and to contribute to a more focused and more differentiated interpretation of fragmentation metrics. While this study takes forest and forest fragmentation as an example, it is a general methodological study and the results can immediately be applied to the fragmentation...


Funding period: 2008 - 2010

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Recurrent selection for increased outcrossing rates of barley (Hordeum vulgare) from semi-arid regions of Syria and Jordan (Project)

In a recently completed DFG-project, the scientific basis of the variation of outcrossing rates of cultivated and wild barley populations from semi-arid regions of the Near East has been determined as well as the inheritance of outcrossing related flowering characteristics of barley. In the present project, the outcrossing rate of cultivated barley adapted to semi-arid regions will be increased...


Funding period: 2005 - 2010

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Regeneration, Maintenance, and Sustainable Use of Pristine Forests in Ethiopia (Project)

This proposal is part of an ecosystem study that aims at a scientific basis for a sustainable management of the Munessa-Shashemene forest as a model for other semi-deciduous forests in Ethiopia. With the enlargement of the project in the second phase, coordinative tasks increased drastically with respect to scientific coordination, management of the field work, and collaboration with Ethiopian...


Funding period: 2005 - 2010

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Regeneration in an Ethiopian montane forest with special emphasis on tree biology and nurse-tree functions (Project)

In the Munessa-Sheshamene region (Ethiopia) several plots of moderately disturbed natural forest and of exotic tree plantations have been investigated with respect to water relations and photosynthetic capcity of selected indigenous and exotic trees. This ongoing work is part of an ecosystem study conducted by soil scientists, geobotanists and plant ecophysiologists that aims at a scientific...


Funding period: 2004 - 2010