Completed research projects

Research Network Projects targeting Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia. >>> Details
Sub-project: Challenges and Opportunities for Nutrient Efficient Agriculture in West African Cities (Mali, Burkina Faso and Nigeria).
Volkswagen-Foundation (2007-2013), Prof. Dr. A. Bürkert

Nutrient flows and production efficiencies in urban and peri-urban agriculture in a West African city.  >>> Details (in German)
DFG (2006-2009), Dr. M. Predotova, Dr. R. Diogo

Nutrient flows and resource use efficiencies in urban and peri-urbanagriculture in the capital Khartoum, Sudan.   >>> Details
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (2006-2009),
Sahar Abdalla / Ishtiag Abdalla / Moiez Fadul

Nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency in urban agriculture of Kabul, Afghanistan 
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(2008-2011), Zirkrullah Safi

Nutrient fluxes and production efficiency in urban and periurban crops of Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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Pakistan (2009-2012), Shoaib Ur Rehman

Produce certification to strengthen consumers' health interests and farmers' income from urban vegetable production in Mumbai, India    >>> Details
ICDD PhD scholarship (2011-2013), Prem Jose Vazhacharickal

Supporting national research capacity and policy development to cope with dwindling water resources and intensifying land use in the transborder Altay-Dzungarian region of Mongolia
and China. >>> Details
IFAD (2012-2017), Dr. Sven Gönster

Partizipative Forschung für nachhaltiges Landmanagement auf dem Mahafaly Plateau
in Südwest-Madagaskar
Teilvorhaben: Verbesserung der Bodenfruchtbarkeit >>> Details
BMBF (2011-2015), Dr. Katja Brinkmann

Musa-Schaderreger-Interaktionen - Phenylphenalenone in Bananen >>> Details
DFG (2009-2012), Dr. Dirk Hölscher 

Diversity and Nutritional Variation in Pakistani Dates: Implications for Sustainable Value Chain and Decent Living Perspectives of Rural Households.   >>> Details
ICDD PhD scholarship (2012-2015), Fatima Ghayoor
Project leader: Prof. Dr. A. Bürkert, Prof. Dr. Iqrar A. Khan

Tackling abiotic production constraints in pearl millet and sorghum-based agricultural systems
of the West African Sahel.  >>> Details
BMZ/ICRISAT (2010-2014), Francesca Beggi

Effects of manure application on yield and quality attributes of banana in Oman.  
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Omani government (2010-2013), Khair Tuwair Said Al Busaidi

Effects of transformation processes in 'jubraka' agroforestry systems of the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, on plant diversity and nutrient fluxes.   >>> Details
DFG (2009-2012), Sven Gönster & Martin Wiehle

Sustainable restitution/recultivation of artisanal tantalum mining wasteland in Central Africa
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Volkswagen-Stiftung (2010-2013), Dr. Rodrigue Diogo
DAAD (2011-2014), Dora Neina

Traditional land use and reconsideration of environmental zoning in the Hawf Protected Area, south-eastern Yemen    >>> Details
UNDP, Diana Quiroz

Landuse changes around Lake Inle >>> Details
DAAD (2011-2014), Thin Nwe Htwe

Nutrient Cycling in wheat under different fertilizer and tillage regimes >>> Details
DAAD/CIMMYT (2011-2014), Kathrin Grahmann

Teilvorhaben: Gaseous and leachate losses of C and N from fertilized and irrigated soils of a subtropical coastal oasis   >>> GRAKO1397
DFG-Gaduiertenkolleg

(1. Phase 2006-2010), Konrad Siegfried & Mohammed al Rawahi
(2. Phase 2009-2012) Mariko Ingold & Melanie Willich