Projects

Peanut consumption and human weight management

The goals of this project are to extend the work conducted during previous cycles of support through the Peanut CRSP. We have demonstrated that peanuts pose […]

  • Start Date: 2008/01/01
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: PUR151
  • Lead University:

CRSP:

Database:

The Development of the Peanut Sector for Guyana and Selected Caribbean Countries

The goal of this project is to address the limitations in peanut production in Guyana and selected Caribbean countries. In Guyana, the goal in the Rupununi […]

CRSP:

Database:

Systems Approaches to Enhance Peanut Production under Resource Limitation

The goal of this project is to conduct field research on resource limitations to peanut production in Ghana and Burkina Faso, and to test new technologies […]

CRSP:

Database:

Innovative Procedures to Protect Therapeutic Foods from Aflatoxins in Developing Nations

At the completion of this project we will have the information we need to implement and evaluate educational and food preparation procedures which remove aflatoxin as […]

  • Start Date: 2008/01/01
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: COR158
  • Lead University:

CRSP:

Database:

Adaptation of Transgenic Peanuts with Resistance Against Aflatoxin for Production in West Africa

Peanut is a dietary staple in much of West Africa, and is also an important cash crop. Production is limited by disease and insects. Further, access […]

CRSP:

Database:

Aflatoxin financial and health risks along the peanut marketing chain in Ghana

Staples such as maize and groundnut are contaminated with levels of AF that far exceed those considered safe by the World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization. […]

  • Start Date: 2008/01/01
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: AUB163
  • Lead University:

CRSP:

Database:

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 […]

CRSP:

Database:

Using Improved Pulse Crop Productivity to Reinvigorate Smallholder Mixed Farming Systems in Western Kenya

Many rural households in the East African highlands are no longer self-sufficient in beans, a critical source of food and income. Farmers’ inability to afford fertilizer […]

  • Start Date: 2008
  • End Date: 2012/12/31
  • Project Code: CU-1
  • Lead University:

CRSP:

Database:

Enhancing Nutritional Value and Marketability of Beans through Research and Strengthening Key Value Chain Stakeholders in Uganda and Rwanda

Agriculture in East Africa is characterized by women and men working in small scale, rainfed production, averaging 2 hectares per household (FAO 2006). Erratic bimodal rainfall […]

CRSP:

Database:

Combining Conventional, Molecular and Farmer Participatory Breeding Approaches to Improve Andean Beans for Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Ecuador and Rwanda

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important grain legume (pulse) consumed in Ecuador, and the most important protein source in Rwandan diets. Around 120,000 […]

CRSP:

Database: