Livestock, Livelihoods and Climate Change Interaction: Collaborative Research in the Mountains of Nepal
This project seeks to identify key vulnerabilities of livestock-based livelihoods to climate change in the Solukhumbu and Humla districts of the Mountain region of Nepal. This […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: LLCCI
- Lead University: Arizona State University
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Climate Change, Markets
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Capacity-building and Strengthening of Livestock Production Systems While Adapting to Climate Change in Nepal
Rapid land use changes, forest degradation, soil erosion, climate change, policy deficits, and community inability to handle these challenges have caused a downward spiral of the […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: SLPS
- Lead University: University of Louisiana - Lafayette
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Capacity Building, Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Coolrooms and Cool Transport for Small-Scale Farmers
Temperature management is the key tool for reducing temperature losses in the developing world. Very few smallholder farmers have access to cooling or cool storage facilities, […]
- Start Date: 2010/01/01
- End Date: 2011/09/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Innovation
CRSP: Horticulture
Database: Project
Enhancing biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) of leguminous crops grown on degraded soils in Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania
Common beans are the most important legume crop in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania occupying a very large proportion of land devoted to legumes. For example, over […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2012/12/31
- Project Code: ISU-2
- Lead University: Iowa State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Productivity
CRSP: Dry Grain Pulses (Pulse)
Database: Project
Improving Nutritional Status and CD4 Counts in HIV-Infected Children through Nutritional Support
The overall goal of the research is to determine if eating beans or cowpeas will improve the immune status of children that are not being treated […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2012/12/31
- Project Code: MSU-3
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Health and Nutrition
CRSP: Dry Grain Pulses (Pulse)
Database: Project
Impact assessment of Bean/Cowpea and Dry Grain Pulses CRSP investments in research, institutional capacity building, and technology dissemination in Africa, Latin America and the U.S.
Impact assessments are widely recognized to perform two functions–accountability and learning. Greater accountability (and strategic validation) is seen as a prerequisite for continued support for development […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2012/12/31
- Project Code: MSU-4
- Lead University: Michigan State University
CRSP: Dry Grain Pulses (Pulse)
Database: Project
Increasing Utilization of Cowpeas to Promote Health and Food Security in Africa
Many poor families in Sub Saharan Africa suffer high rates of malnutrition, especially among children, while diet-related chronic diseases have become a common phenomenon among urban […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2012/12/31
- Project Code: TAMU-1
- Lead University: Texas A&M University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Health and Nutrition
CRSP: Dry Grain Pulses (Pulse)
Database: Project
Insuring Against the Weather: Addressing the Challenges of Basis Risk in Index Insurance using Gap Insurance
This research considers the following question: how can generic weather index products be designed and combined with network based savings, gifts and loans to insure some […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Colorado
- Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Adaptation and Innovations for Ethiopia
The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Ethiopia pilot project builds on lessons learned from a highly innovative pilot venture underway in northern Kenya, adapting that pilot to […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2014/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Cornell University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Interlinking weather index insurance with credit to alleviate market failures and improve agricultural productivity in rural Ethiopia
Smallholder farmers are beset by an interlocking set of market failures. Credit, insurance, and therefore the very use of costly inputs such as fertilizer can remain […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - San Diego
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
