Tettey, Ethel Dede-Terko

• Start Date: 2009/09/01
• End Date: 2011/11/01
• University: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Productivity

Darko, Francis

• Start Date: 2009/08/01
• End Date: 2011/06/01
• University: Purdue University
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Productivity

Narh, Stephen

• Start Date: 2009/07/01
• End Date: N.D.
• University: University of Florida
• Degree: PhD

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Innovation

Enhancing the Peanut Value Chain, from Processing to Marketing of Peanuts and Peanut Products – Processing

Our goal is to enhance incomes and employment opportunities of people through a strategy of improving agricultural producers’ and processors’ access to markets and stimulating new […]

• Start Date: 2009/06/01
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: UGA127
• Lead University: University of Georgia

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Enhancing the peanut value chain, from processing to marketing peanuts and peanut products

This project’s goals include income enhancement along the peanut value chain, job creation through peanut processing, market access for producers and stimulation of new market demand, […]

• Start Date: 2009/06/01
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: UGA165
• Lead University: University of Georgia

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Enhancing the peanut value chain, from processing to marketing peanuts and peanut products – Product Development

This project seeks to enhance incomes and employment opportunities of people through a strategy of improving small agricultural producers’ access to markets and stimulating new market […]

• Start Date: 2009/06/01
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: UGA166
• Lead University: University of Georgia

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

LTRA-8: Improving soil quality and crop productivity through CAPS in West Africa

For West African countries such as Ghana and Mali, investment in agriculture is critical to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth. Improved soil quality and water […]

• Start Date: 2009
• End Date: 2014
• Project Code: LTRA-8
• Lead University: Kansas State University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Capacity Building, Natural Resource Management

West African Regional Consortium for IPM Excellence

Vegetables are a critical source of nutrition and an important cash crop in West Africa. Vegetable crop production in West Africa is subject to constraints including […]

• Start Date: 2009
• End Date: 2014
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Virginia Tech

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Health and Nutrition

Toward the Effective Integrated Pest Management of Plant Disease Caused by Viruses in Developing Countries: Detection and Diagnosis, Capacity Building and Training, and Formulation of IPM Packages

Viral diseases are one of the major constraints to vegetable production.Through this project researchers seek out new approaches to address plant virus diseases transmitted by insect […]

• Start Date: 2009
• End Date: 2014
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Virginia Tech

• Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security

Harnessing the Opportunities and Overcoming the Constraints to Widespread Adoption of Cage Aquaculture in Ghana

Part of the AquaFish Project: Improving Competitiveness of African Aquaculture Through Capacity Building, Improved Technology, and Management of Supply Chain and Natural Resources

• Start Date: 2009
• End Date: 2013/03/31
• Project Code: 09TAP04PU
• Lead University: Purdue University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Policy