AGRO-ECO
Titre du projet Amplification de la transition agro-écologique pour des systèmes de productions céréalières et maraîchères profitables et durables dans les territoires de l’Atacora au Bénin et du Houet au Burkina Faso (AGRO-ECO) Zone d’intervention Bénin (Tanguieta, Natitingou, Boukoumbé) & Burkina-Faso (Houet) Année de démarrage du projet 2019 Coordonnateur·trice Nord Professeur Marie-Paule KESTEMONT Etablissement d’Enseignement […]
PATH
Project name: Capacity Building of African Young Scientists in Precision Agriculture Through Cross-Regional Academic Mobility for Enhanced Climate-Smart Agri-Food System Acronym PATH Type of Action NDICI-MOBAF-UN/ Intra Africa Mobility Project Key words Precision Agriculture Education project, Technologies in Agriculture, Climate Resilience and Adaptation, Youth Empowerment, Youth Employability, Food System Approach Duration January 2024 to December […]
ORPHAN
Acronym : ORPHAN Project title: Mobility for high skilled scientists and entrepreneurs on orphan crops in higher education for accelerated climate change solutions in Africa Budget : €1796820 Project duration: January 2024 to December 2027; Funding: European Union General objective: ORPHAN aims at addressing current and future challenges related to climate change and agrifood systems with […]
GENES II
Project name: Mobility for Plant Genomics Scholars to Accelerate Climate-Smart Adaptation Options and Food Security in Africa II Acronym GENES II Type of Action NDICI-MOBAF-UN/ Intra Africa Key words Capacity building, climate change, cross regional mobility, food and nutritional security, food technology, plant breeding. Duration January 2024 to December 2027 Countries for mobility Nigeria, Benin, […]
Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative (TAVI)
Project summary The TAVI (Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative) project is an international initiative that brought together four African countries partners and the World Vegetable Center to conserve and use African vegetable biodiversity to address malnutrition by increasing the production and consumption of nutritious vegetables. The African partners of the TAVI project included the Republic of […]
Seed kits Project
Title: Vegetable seed kits for food security in Madagascar and Benin (Seed kits) Abstract: Climate change in combination with increasing food prices puts up a challenge to achieve zero hunger in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to ensure that poor households can access healthy diets. The purpose of this project is to improve nutrition of vulnerable […]
Safeguarding Plant Genetic Resources of Benin for a sustainable
future use (Safe-PGR), BOLD WP4, CROP TRUST Project Summary A proper maintenance of today’s plant genetic resources is critical for a quality feeding of tomorrow’s generations and a climate-smart agriculture. Unfortunately, the lack of appropriate ex-situ conservation facilities at national levels hinders the capacities of countries to achieve this ideal in the tropics, especially in […]
Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH)
Project summary Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH) is an initiative of the One CGIAR that uses an end-to-end approach to address fruit and vegetable demand, food environments and supply issues simultaneously and in a coordinated fashion. The initiative involves research on consumer behavior, food environments, markets, production systems, and genetic diversity and […]
e-Anacarde: digitalizing the cashew nut industry in Benin
Project summary e-Anacarde is a co-constructed project by the Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Sciences Unit of the Faculty of the Agricultural Sciences of the University of Abomey-Calavi and the Namur University in Belgium with the support of several national partners to improve the overall performance of the Cashew productions and valorization systems in Benin. By […]
COWPEA ATLAS PROJECT
Project summary Cowpea is a strategic crop for income generation and food security in West Africa and exclusively grown by smallholder farmers. The crop has important potentials for value addition through diversification of derived products and utilization, which is still unexploited in the sub-region. Social, cultural and economic factors hindering or promoting cowpea production and […]