Completed Research Projects
LARGE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
UrbanFoodPlus - West Africa
African-German partnership to enhance resource use efficiency and improve food security in urban and peri-urban agriculture of West African cities
BMBF GlobE (2013-2018)
Watercope - China/Mongolei
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
SuLaMa - Madagaskar
Participatory research to support sustainable land management on the Mahafaly Plateau in south-western Madagascar
Sub-project: Agronomy >>> Details
BMBF (2011-2015), Dr. Katja Brinkmann
URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURE
Urban Food - Africa/Asia
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
Peri-urban agricultural systems - Niger
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
Peri-urban agricultural systems - Sudan
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
Urban agriculture - Afghanistan
Nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency in urban agriculture of Kabul, Afghanistan.
>>> Details
(2008-2011), Zirkrullah Safi
Peri-urban crops - Pakistan
Nutrient fluxes and production efficiency in urban and periurban crops of Faisalabad, Pakistan.
>>> Details
Pakistan (2009-2012), Shoaib Ur Rehman
Produce certification - Indien
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
SUSTAINABLE LAND USE SYSTEM
Musa Schaderreger - Deutschland
Musa-Schaderreger-Interaktionen - Phenylphenalenone in Bananen. >>> Details
DFG (2009-2012), Dr. Dirk Hölscher
Dates production - Pakistan
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
Millet production - Niger
Tackling abiotic production constraints in pearl millet and sorghum-based agricultural systems
of the West African Sahel. >>> Details
BMZ/ICRISAT (2010-2014), Francesca Beggi
Banana cultivation - Oman
Effects of manure application on yield and quality attributes of banana in Oman.
>>> Details
Omani government (2010-2013), Khair Tuwair Said Al Busaidi
Jubraka agroforestry systems - Sudan
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
Coltan environmental management - Rwanda
Sustainable restitution/recultivation of artisanal tantalum mining wasteland in Central Africa.
>>> Details
Volkswagen-Stiftung (2010-2013), Dr. Rodrigue Diogo
DAAD (2011-2014), Dora Neina
Environmental Protection - Yemen
Traditional land use and reconsideration of environmental zoning in the Hawf Protected Area, south-eastern Yemen. >>> Details
UNDP, Diana Quiroz
Landuse at Lake Inle - Myanmar
Landuse changes around Lake Inle. >>> Details
DAAD (2011-2014), Thin Nwe Htwe
Conservation tillage - Mexico
Nutrient Cycling in wheat under different fertilizer and tillage regimes. >>> Details
DAAD/CIMMYT (2011-2014), Kathrin Grahmann
RTG 1397: Regulation of soil organic matter and nutrient turnover in agriculture
Soil quality management - Oman
Sub-project: 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