Completed Research Projects
LARGE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
DAAD Cooperations
Pro-RUWA: Promoting academic capacities for sustainable agricultural resources use in West Africa (DAAD, 2021-2025) >>> Details
Biodiversity+: Collaborative capacity building for plant biodiversity research and preservation in oasis ecosystems of Pakistan (DAAD, 2021-2023)
FUM-UK: Agroecology (DAAD, 2021-2023)
SustainSAHEL - Improving Crop–Shrub–Livestock Integration in the Sahel
Focusing on the Sahel zone, the EU-funded SustainSAHEL project aims to enhance the resilience of smallholder agricultural farming systems to climate change as well as their intensification potential through scalable innovations on crop–shrub–livestock (CSL) integration. The project is working closely with existing Africa–Europe networks and programmes, establishing partnerships that could emerge as a model laboratory on CSL for the Sahel. >>> Details
H2020 (2020-2025)
Livelihood Management, Reforms and Processes of Structural Change
The interdisciplinary fellowship project "Livelihood Management, Reforms and Processes of Structural Change" is part of the Volkswagen Foundation initiative "Knowledge for Tomorrow - Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa". >>> Details
VolkswagenStiftung (2017-2024)
Research Unit FOR2432 - India
Social-Ecological Systems in the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition (FOR2432). >>> Details
DFG (2016-2022)
Phase II (2019-2022)
Sub-project A01/2: Plant growth, water quality, carbon, and nutrient flows in rural-urban cropping systems at different spatial scales.
Phase I (2016-2019)
Sub-project A01/1: Intensification effects on matter flows in rural-urban cropping systems.
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.
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(2008-2011), Zirkrullah Safi
Peri-urban crops - Pakistan
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 - 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.
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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.
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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