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
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 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
Global Valencia Peanut Niche Market Development Program
This project’s long term goal is to identify diverse germplasm with beneficial traits from Arachis hypogaea L. subsp. fastigiata var. fastigiata (Valencia) and markers associated with […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: NMS172
- Lead University: New Mexico State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
Aflatoxin free Peanut-based Recovery and Functional Food
The goal is to develop an intervention food that will easily be distributed among malnourished and vulnerable people. The product is a peanut based highly nutritious […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA122
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
A Peanut Information Network and Train-the-Trainer Program
The overall goal of this project is to develop an information network and training program to address the basic principles of peanut production, harvesting, postharvest handling, […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA124
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Global
- Topic: Capacity Building
Improved West African peanut production for enhanced health and socioeconomic status through the delivery of research-based production systems in Ghana
The overall goal is more efficient peanut production. In the U.S. this equates to maintaining yields while reducing inputs. This has been attained in recent years […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: NCS131
- Lead University: North Carolina State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition, Markets
Improving the health and livelihood of people of East Africa by addressing aflatoxin and gender-related constraints in peanut production, processing and marketing
This project links science directly to pressing development challenges. It increases food security and nutritional value for families producing one of Africa’s key crops, peanut. Building […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: VT134
- Lead University: Virginia Tech
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Gender, Health and Nutrition
Strategies for Controlling Groundnut Rosette Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Breeding for Disease Resistance, Seed Dissemination, Disease Management Education, and Generation of Transgenic Groundnut with Resistance to Groundnut Rosette Disease
The goals of the project are to develop and disseminate highly desirable groundnut cultivars with resistance to groundnut rosette disease (GRD) and drought tolerance to groundnut […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA136
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Productivity
Overcoming Abiotic and Biotic Constraints to Yield, and Production of High-Quality Peanuts in West Africa and Texas
A successful outcome will result in being able to develop peanut varieties that are higher in quality and oil content, are tolerant to drought and foliar […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: TAM137
- Lead University: Texas A&M University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Productivity
