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Information Services and Analyses to Address the Global Food Security Crisis (Project)
Goal: To provide timely information and cutting-edge analysis on policy actions for food and nutrition security. Information will include a range of topics including (1) smallholder agriculture; (2) hunger and the role of NGOs; (3) risks and vulnerability assessments for the poor, and (4) national and international policy responses and an evaluation of these responses. Purpose: To contribute...
Funding period: 2009 - 2012
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The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought: Towards an integrated global assessment of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (Project)
Goal: To assess the current best knowledge and state of the art of the analytical approaches related to: DLDD, their causes and driving forces, their effects on land productivity incl. changes in the provision of terrestrial ecosystem services, the social and economic costs of these effects, the costs of enhancing land productivity and (re-) establishing ecosystem services; and to recommend a...
Funding period: 2010 - 2010
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Re2alko - Optimization of the regional production of bioalcohol from biogenic residues, Subproject A (Project)
The goal of the project is the optimization of processes to develop and use biogenic residues for the production of innovative biofuels of the second generation with high climate protection potential. An applicable concept will be developed for the gradual shift to decentralized bioethanol plants in plants for the fermentation of regional residues and waste from agricultural plants as well as for...
Funding period: 2009 - 2012
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Rice and global climate change: candidate genes for preventing heat- and drought-induced yield losses due to spikelet sterility (Project)
The major goal of this project is the alleviation of global food insecurity, poverty, and malnutrition in potentially highly food- and climate-insecure regions of the world. The purpose is the development of rice cultivars that are tolerant of heat, drought, and combined heat and drought stress through the introgression of validated tolerance genes into rice mega-varieties by marker-assisted...
Funding period: 2008 - 2010
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Farmers‘ Rice Fields under Water-Saving Strategies in the Philippines (Project)
The overarching goal of the project is the regional up-scaling of CH4 and N2O emissions under different water-saving/management characteristics. The specific goals are to 1. Assess temporal variability of CH4 and N2O emissions in farmers‘ fields practicing watersaving techniques. 2. Study the spatial variability of emissions as affected by distinct water-saving practices of different farmers. 3....
Funding period: 2009 - 2012
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Development of fast screening methods for developing countries to improve quantity and quality of carbohydrates in potato, sweetpotato and yambean (Project)
The goal of this study will be to develop a fast and inexpensive near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) screening method for predicting quantity and quality of plant carbohydrates (CHO), on the basis of investigation into the quantity and quality of plant CHO in potato (modern and Andean Solanum groups), sweetpotato and Andean yambean grown in Peru. The new developed method will be applied...
Funding period: 2009 - 2010
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Development of a practical method for determining the total bacterial count of colony forming units in various substrates, can be used on-site (Project)
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Funding period: 2013 - 2015
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Development of carbon market and conservation financing mechanisms for multifunctional landscape bio-corridors in the Upper Mekong (Project)
Goal: To support enhanced and connected multifunctional landscape corridors with both positive livelihood and environmental benefits, managed by smallholder farmers through integrated management and financial mechanisms; and hence contribute to sustainable land-use policies and practices Purpose: To identify and develop landscape corridors, stepping stones, and framework species within secondary...
Funding period: 2009 - 2012
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Enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change impacts through well-managed water use for aquaculture integrated with small-scale irrigation in the Chinyanja Triangle in Africa (Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia) (Project)
Goal: To contribute toward improving food security and well-being of sub-Saharan rural households trapped in a cycle of poverty and vulnerability exacerbated by climatic vagaries and climate change impacts, through well-managed water use for aquaculture integrated with small-scale irrigation Purpose: To enhance the benefits of integrating aquaculture and small-scale irrigation by reducing...
Funding period: 2010 - 2013
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What futures for fisheries production systems in West Africa? Development of scenarios for adaptation to climate change (Project)
Goal: 1. Identify the key features of fisheries productions systems in West Africa as well as drivers of change with a focus on Senegal, Mauritania and Ghana 2.Identify the impact of climate variability and change on these systems 3. Identify how fisheries productions systems are likely to respond to future changes under different climate change, population change, trade patterns, economic and...
Funding period: 2009 - 2010
