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Quality improvement and more efficient utilization of products derived from the baobab tree (Adasonia digitata L.) to enhance food security and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa - Teilprojekt 1
Project
Project code: 2816PROC17
Contract period: 17.06.2019
- 31.12.2022
Budget: 932,076 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: product quality, food safety, nutrition education, food processing, market, forest genetic resources, fruit production, nutrition competence, value chains, management planning
The project aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality and safety of food products made from baobab in Malawi, Kenya and Sudan, as well as to improved local processing technologies and increased resource efficiency in the production process. The project will develop a method for on-site quality assessment of baobab products, develop and help implement technological measures for retaining baobab quality along the production process, study the scope for a stronger involvement of producer associations in value chains, and investigate innovation, new product development and formalization in the baobab processing sector. The project aims to generate and co-create knowledge and locally adapted technologies and solutions with stakeholders from the academic and baobab processing sectors in the study region, thereby contributing to building and developing local capacity in the African partner institutions and the baobab processing sector at large.
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Forestry
- Process engineering
- Renewable Resources
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: Baobabbaum
- Quality improvement and more efficient utilization of products derived from the baobab tree (Adasonia digitata L.) to enhance food security and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa - Teilprojekt 2
- Quality improvement and more efficient utilization of products derived from the baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) to enhance food security and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Value Chains - subproject 3