Integrated Soil, Water, Nutrient and Crop Management Strategies for Improving Productivity in Sorghum and Millet Based Cropping Systems
The goal of this project is to improve and intensify cropping systems to help transform sorghum and millet from subsistence to cash crop status, generate more […]
- Start Date: 2008
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: KSU 104
- Lead University: Kansas State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Productivity
CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)
Database: Project
Breeding Sorghum for Improved Grain, Forage Quality and Yield for Central America
Sorghum is an important feed grain, food grain and forage in Central America. In this region it is produced by a range of groups, from subsistence […]
- Start Date: 2008
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: TAM 101
- Lead University: Texas A&M University
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Innovation, Productivity
CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)
Database: Project
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
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
Development of the Input and Product Markets in West Africa for Sorghum and Millet
Over the next two years the focus will be on documenting the technology-marketing project effects and scaling them up principally in Mali and Niger. The project […]
- Start Date: 2008
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: PRF 103
- Lead University: Purdue University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)
Database: Project
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
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 […]
- Start Date: 2008
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: OSU 101
- Lead University: Ohio State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)
Database: Project
Building a Sustainable Infrastructure for the Product Development and Food Entrepreneur/ Industry Technical Support: A Strategy to promote increased use of Sorghum and Millet in East Africa
Sorghum and millet are ideal crops for many parts of Africa. Maize, however, is favored by many as a food source; farmers thus grow Maize even […]
- Start Date: 2008
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UNL 102
- Lead University: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Productivity
CRSP: Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains (SMOG / INTSORMIL)
Database: Project
