Countries Tanzania : CRSPs

Improving Bean Production in Drought-Prone, Low Fertility Soils of Africa and Latin America

Drought and low soil fertility are principal, pervasive constraints to bean production in Latin America and Africa. The vast majority of bean producers in poor countries […]

Start Date: 2008
End Date: 2012/12/31
Project Code: PSU-1
Lead University: Penn State University

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Productivity

CRSP: Dry Grain Pulses (Pulse)

Database: Project

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

CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)

Database: Project

Breeding Sorghum for Improved Resistance to Striga and Drought in Africa

The goal of research in this project is to develop, deploy, and promote the use of second generation sorghum cultivars with drought and Striga resistance using […]

Start Date: 2008
End Date: 2012
Project Code: PRF 101
Lead University: Purdue University

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Innovation

CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)

Database: Project

Crop, Soil and Water management to optimize Grain Yield and Quality for Value- Added Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa

The goal of this project is to improve food security and market development of sorghum and pearl millet in ESA through research, institutional capacity building and […]

Start Date: 2008
End Date: 2012
Project Code: UNL 101
Lead University: University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Natural Resource Management, Productivity

CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)

Database: Project

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

CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)

Database: Project

Market Development in Support of Sorghum and Millet Farmers in Tanzania and Zambia

Improving the income and food security of small-scale sorghum and millet farmers in Zambia and Tanzania through the identification of new market opportunities and related constraints […]