Bushula, Vuyiswa

• Start Date: 2009/01/01
• End Date: 2014/12/31
• University: Kansas State University
• Degree: PhD

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Innovation

Hydrology, Water Harvesting, and Watershed Management for Food Security, Income, and Health: Small Impoundments for Aquaculture and Other Community Uses

Our vision is to provide research results that increase the knowledge base on water resource uses that work in the African context. The studies identify best […]

• Start Date: 2009
• End Date: 2013/03/31
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Auburn University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Natural Resource Management

Effects of Watershed-Water Quality-Aquaculture Interactions on Quantity and Quality of Water from Small Catchments in South Africa and Uganda

Part of the AquaFish Project: Hydrology, Water Harvesting, and Watershed Management for Food Security, Income, and Health: Small Impoundments for Aquaculture and Other Community Uses

• Start Date: 2009
• End Date: 2013/03/31
• Project Code: 09WIZ01AU
• Lead University: Auburn University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Natural Resource Management

vanRooyen, Danelle

• Start Date: 2008/01/01
• End Date: 2009/12/31
• University: University of the Free State
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Innovation

Jacobs, Helen

• Start Date: 2008/01/01
• End Date: 2010/12/31
• University: University of Pretoria
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Innovation

Ecological-Based Management of Sorghum and Pearl Millet Insect Pests in Africa and the United States

Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, and pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum, are uniquely suited for production with limited inputs of water, fertilizer, and pesticides in Africa and the U.S. […]

• Start Date: 2008
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: WTAMU 101
• Lead University: West Texas A&M University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Natural Resource Management

Breeding Sorghum for Improved Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses and Enhanced End

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is grown in Africa primarily as a subsistence food crop by small-holder farmers. Uniquely adapted to many indigenous cropping systems sorghum […]

• Start Date: 2008
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: TAM 102
• Lead University: Not Available

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Innovation

Product and Market Development for Sorghum and Millet in Southern Africa and Central America

This project is integrated with food science, plant improvement, and marketing projects in East Africa, West Africa and Central America to improve components of the supply […]

• Start Date: 2008
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: TAM 103
• Lead University: Texas A&M University

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Markets

Grain Molds, Mycotoxins and Stalk Rots of Sorghum and Millet

Fusarium diseases that cause grain mold and stalk rot of sorghum and millet are the most important, but as yet unmanaged diseases, of these crops on […]

• Start Date: 2008
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: KSU 101
• Lead University: Kansas State University

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

Product and Market Development for Sorghum and Pearl Millet in West Africa

The principal goal of this project is to expand markets in West Africa for sorghum and millet through working with NARS scientists/technologists on processing of the […]

• Start Date: 2008
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: PRF 102
• Lead University: Purdue University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets