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
Improving livelihoods of farm households in peanut based farming systems in East Africa
The overall purpose of the University of Connecticut-Peanut CRSP effort is to improve understanding of the farm level economics of peanut production and marketing in Uganda […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UCN139
- Lead University: University of Connecticut
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
Development of Methods for Establishing a Global Network for Aflatoxin Exposure
The long-term goal of this project is to enable and establish a global network for assessment of aflatoxin (AF) exposure in high-risk populations and to investigate […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA145
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
Association of Aflatoxin Biomarker Levels with Health Status and HIV Disease
Although large proportions of people worldwide are affected by HIV infection and aflatoxin exposure, there has been no investigation/documentation of the role of aflatoxin in immune […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UAB148
- Lead University: University of Alabama
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
Enterosorbent intervention therapies for populations at risk for Aflatoxin related diseases
Aflatoxins (AFs) are harmful by-products of mold growth that can be fatal to humans and animals. The problem is longstanding, unavoidable and seemingly inextricable. A recent […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: TAM149
- Lead University: Texas A&M University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
Breeding Peanut for Disease Resistance Valuable to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
The project seeks to develop rust and leaf spot resistant germplasm and cultivars and deploy the germplasm and cultivars throughout the Caribbean and the Americas where […]
- Start Date: 2008/01/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UF150
- Lead University: University of Florida
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean, US and Canada
- Topic: Productivity
