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Year-round availability of fruit and vegetables through resource-efficient processing and new marketing opportunities as instruments for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa - subproject 1 (FruVaSe)
Project
Project code: 2816PROC04
Contract period: 01.05.2018
- 31.12.2022
Budget: 1,199,868 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: nutrition education, energy efficiency, fruit production, food processing, information-communicationtechnology, regional value addition, vegetable production
The Research project FruVaSe, subproject 1 is implemented by the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, the Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi and the University of Eldoret in Kenya and the Nelson-Mandela African Institution for Science and Technology in Tanzania. The project aims to counteract the lack of vitamins and minerals in human nutrition and the fruit and vegetable waste generated in the value chain in sub-Saharan Africa and to develop solutions to improve the availability of fruit and vegetables, which is otherwise often limited by seasonality and long distances between growing regions and consumption centres. In particular, the FruVaSe research project will focus on nutritionally promising species of fruit and vegetables such as cashew apples, guava, jackfruit and the green leafy vegetables of the cowpea, cassava and African nightshade plants. The project further develops the processing of fruit and vegetables for preservation and analyses the retention of micronutrients and the utilisation of by-products. The consumption behaviour of consumers regarding fruit and vegetable products is investigated. Resource-efficient and energy autonomous processing of fruit and vegetables is developed. The possibilities of marketing new fruit and vegetable products and their consumer acceptance as well as the existing market channels are also being investigated. Education and knowledge transfer activities are also undertaken, as are project management and coordination tasks.
Section overview
Subjects
- Arboriculture
- Vegetable Gardening
- Physiology of Nutrition
- Nutritional behaviour
