Genetic Characterization of Adaptive Root Traits in the Common Bean, Phaseolus vulagaris
Coming soon
- Start Date: 2002
- End Date: 2007
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Florida
- Region: US and Canada
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: Soil Management
Database: Project
Rural Markets, Natural Capital, and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa
This project focused on poverty traps and their agroecological consequences and origins to address global constraints that trap poor households in cycles of poverty and vulnerability […]
- Start Date: 2001/10/01
- End Date: 2004/09/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Cornell University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
Building Assets for Sustainable Recovery and Food Security
This project is initiating new field research, building on existing studies and databases, and extending the comparative work in areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Honduras. The […]
- Start Date: 2001/10/01
- End Date: 2006/09/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Kentucky
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security
Promoting Equitable Access to Water Resources
In response to the decentralization of water management and other land and water reforms in Malawi this research aimed to study how these reforms affected disadvantaged […]
- Start Date: 2001/10/01
- End Date: 2002/09/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Impact of Joint Titling on Gender Equity
Addressing the systematic differences between men’s and women’s land tenure rights and how these differences contributes to structural inequality and poverty for women, this project sought […]
- Start Date: 2001/09/01
- End Date: 2002/06/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Gender
Sustainable Enterosorbent Strategies for the Protection of African Populations from Aflatoxin
We are in a unique position to test a novel, clay-based technology that could achieve major advances in human health for populations exposed to high levels […]
- Start Date: 2001/08/01
- End Date: 2007/10/31
- Project Code: TAM50
- Lead University: Texas A&M University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
Biochemical and Molecular Responses of Peanut to Drought Stress and Their Role in Aflatoxin Contamination
Drought stress severely affects yield and predisposes peanut to preharvest aflatoxin contamination. Due to the carcinogenic nature of aflatoxins, elimination of aflatoxin production is the area […]
- Start Date: 2001/08/01
- End Date: 2007/10/31
- Project Code: FAM51
- Lead University: Not Available
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
Development of Sustainable Peanut Production Technologies for Amerindian Villages in the Rupununi Region of Guyana
The Rupununi region of Guyana contains 22,313 square miles (27% of the total land area of Guyana) of mostly undeveloped land. Nearly 99% of the population […]
- Start Date: 2001/08/01
- End Date: 2007/10/31
- Project Code: UFL52
- Lead University: University of Florida
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Productivity
Valencia Peanut Breeding for High Yield, Early Maturity, and Resistance to Fungal Diseases, and Good Quality
Since 1989, and the collapse of the large-scale system, Bulgarian agriculture has been undergoing contradictory reforms. The result has been a dramatic drop in agricultural production […]
- Start Date: 2001/08/01
- End Date: 2007/10/31
- Project Code: NMX53
- Lead University: New Mexico State University
- Region: Europe and Eurasia
- Topic: Productivity
Gender Issues in Aflatoxin Incidence and Control in Groundnut Production Systems of West Africa
Aflatoxin contamination of groundnut production in West Africa poses severe health problems for the populations of the region and is becoming an increasingly important constraint to […]
- Start Date: 2001/08/01
- End Date: 2007/10/31
- Project Code: VT54
- Lead University: Virginia Tech
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Gender, Health and Nutrition
