Impact Assessment of Dry Grain Pulses CRSP Investments in research, institutional capacity building and technology dissemination for improved program efforts
TBD
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: N.D.
- Project Code: S04.1MSU
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Global
- Topic: Food Security
CRSP: Grain Legumes (Legume)
Database: Project
Adaptation for Climate Change by Livestock Smallholders in Gandaki River Basin
Nepal is experiencing rapid climate change, whose nature and implications for livestock raising, under evolving rural social and economic systems, are poorly understood. This project aims […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: City College of New York
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Climate Change, Markets
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Improving nutrition and productivity of buffaloes to adapt to the impacts of climate change in Nepal.
Michigan State University, in collaboration with NARC, AFU and the DLS in Nepal, will conduct collaborative research on forage crop cultivation, feeding, and reproduction management in […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Health and Nutrition, Productivity
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Sustainable Pastoralism on the Borana Plateau: An Innovation Systems Approach
This study will test best-bet land and livestock interventions that can move the pastoral system bacy towards sustainability through a participatory framework that creates community action […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Utah State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Trellis III: Engaging US students in international development
The Trellis Fund provides small-scale, in-country development organizations access to U.S. graduate student expertise, providing benefit to both the student and the in-country institutions. With a […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2014
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Global
- Topic: Capacity Building
CRSP: Horticulture
Database: Project
Genetic Improvement of Guatemalan Climbing Beans for Efficient Production in the Highlands
TBD
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: N.D.
- Project Code: S01.A1NDSU
- Lead University: North Dakota State University
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Innovation
CRSP: Grain Legumes (Legume)
Database: Project
Improving Genetic Yield Potential of Andean Beans with Increased Resistances to Drought and Major Foliar Diseases and Enhanced Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF)
TBD
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: N.D.
- Project Code: S01.A3MSU
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Innovation, Productivity
CRSP: Grain Legumes (Legume)
Database: Project
Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS) in Northern Region, Ghana
In Ghana’s Northern Region, smallholder farmers cultivate rainfed crops, face significant risk of weather shocks, chronically underinvest in input technologies, achieve just a fraction of potential […]
- Start Date: 2012/10/01
- End Date: 2015/12/31
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Yale University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Innovation, Productivity
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
A Multiple Interventions Approach to Increasing Technology Adoption with a View Towards Scaling-Up: Evidence from Mexico (MITA)
Crop yields in much of the developing world remain below potential partly due to low adoption of profitable technological packages (e.g. improved seeds and fertilizer). In […]
- Start Date: October 2012
- End Date: 2015/10/31
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Los Angeles
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
Farmers face enormous production risks due to unpredictable rainfall, yet most do not have any formal insurance. One explanation for this is the existence of informal […]
- Start Date: October 2012
- End Date: 2015/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Yale University
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
