Ethiopia

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Projects with partners - Ethiopia (50)

• A New Molecular Approach for Determining Hymenopteran Key Parasitoids of Lepidopteran Pests in Cabbage Crops

  A New Molecular Approach for Determining Hymenopteran Key Parasitoids of Lepidopteran Pests in Cabbage Crops

• African Grassroots Innovations for Livehood and Environment (AGILE)

  The Government of Italy annually finances this programme as part of its support to the CGIAR centres. The budget indicated is for 2007. The programme is managed by ICRAF in collaboration with the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). The main objective is to establish and test an approach for the sustainable use of soil, encoraging collective actions for natural resources management and for improving living conditions. The programme is active in selected areas of East Africa and Horn of Africa and involves rural communities.

• African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE)

  The African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) is a network of 127 educational institutions in Africa whose objective is to strengthen the teaching of multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. The ANAFE Coordination Unit is hosted at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi. This provides a vantage for network management, linkages with the research and development activities of ICRAF and its partners, and convenient communication facilities.

• Analysis of Environmental Changes and Hydrogeochemistry in Lake Ashengie, Ethiopia

  Analysis of Environmental Changes and Hydrogeochemistry in Lake Ashengie, Ethiopia

• Animal source foods and nutrition during early life

  The overall aim of this study is to improve our understanding of the role that animal source foods (ASF:s) play in the nutritional status of young children in Ethiopia. The importance of ASF:s as sources of energy, high quality protein and bioavailable micronutrients in infants and young children consuming complementary foods will be evaluated and pathways by which livestock keeping influences their availability will be characterized. Families with 6 month old infants are currently recruited into the study. To target lower income families, only households with small livestock (sheep, goats, chickens) and without livestock are included in the study.

• Aquatic Pollution and its Effect on Fissome Rivers and Lakes of Ethiopia

  Aquatic Pollution and its Effect on Fissome Rivers and Lakes of Ethiopia

• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in an Ethiopian montane forest with special emphasis on nurse-tree effect

  Preliminary results from the ongoing work of a multidisciplinary study that aims at a scientific basis for a sustainable management of the Munessa-Shashemene forest as a model for other semi-decidouous forests of Ethiopia, reported the so-called nurse-tree effect. They documented higher density of regenerating native species under canopies of introduced Eucalyptus saligna, and E. globulus as compared to regeneration density in a natural forest. In such forest ecosystems, where seeds are dispersed without their mycorrhizal symbiont, tree species acquire a symbiont at the time of germination and the effectiveness of the existing AMF community is one important component of seedling establishment and growth. To get a better knowledge of the functioning of this particular ecosystem the work shall be complimented by investigation of the mycorrhizal status and the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) communities colonizing the nurse trees and the regeneratin indigenous tree seedlings.

• Biotopic status of the Russian Wheat Aphid in correlation to resistant barley lines in Ethiopia

  The Russian Wheat Aphid RWA, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko), is an insect pest on barley, Hordeum vulgare, and bred wheat, Triticum aestivum, in the Highlands of Ethiopia. Estimated yield losses of barley caused by RWA ranged between 41 to 79% in the last years. s local subsistence farmers mainly cultivate barley, control of the pest is achieved predominantly through the use of resistant barley lines. A number of barley lines with resitance to RWA were identified and released to farmers in Ethiopia. However, biotypic variability of RWA can render control with host-plant resistance. Such RWA biotypes can develop as a result of selection from the parent population in response to exposure to resistant cultivars.

• Bridging the Rural Land Information Gap in Ethiopia: Remote Sensing Based Solutions and Some Technical Optimization Tools for Emerging Problems

  Bridging the Rural Land Information Gap in Ethiopia: Remote Sensing Based Solutions and Some Technical Optimization Tools for Emerging Problems

• CoCE- Conservation and use of the wild populations of Coffea arabica in the montane rainforests of Ethiopia

  The aim of the research project is to assess the diversity and the economic value of the Ethiopian coffee gene pool and to develop concepts of model character for conservation and use of the genetic resources of Coffea arabica in its center of diversity in Ethiopia. The concepts are to be based on the conservation of the montane rain forests as the natural habitat of the wild coffee populations, and the forest coffee systems as the traditional use of the wild coffee populations.

• Collective Action and Property Rights (system-wide program)

  To contribute to poverty reduction by identifying effective policies and practices that enhance the ways that collective action and property rights are used to build secure assets and income streams for and by the poor.To provide policymarkers, NGOs, and community groups with knowledge of the factores that strengthen rights of the poor to land and water resource and lead to more effective collective action by the poor

• Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction

  To contribute to poverty reduction by identifying effective policies and practices that enhance the ways that collective action and property rights are used to build secure assets and income streams for and by the poor To provide policymarkers, NGOs, and community groups with knowledge of the factores that strengthen rights of the poor to land and water resource and lead to more effective collective action by the poor

• Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Rural Poor: Survival Strategies and Environmental Implications

  Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Rural Poor: Survival Strategies and Environmental Implications

• Designing community-based breeding strategies fo indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia

  The project develops community-based breeding strategies for sheep in Ethiopia. Communities will be actively involved in the project, from the definition of breeding goals and selection criteria to the identification of the most appropriate and acceptable strategy. Strategies will be designed to take advantage of existing institutions and already available information. An important element of the project will be the understanding of institutional issues that can underpin successful arrangements, from the production through to markets. Capacity building to improve the ability of communities to manage the breeding programs will be embedded in the project. Plans will be designed according to local arrangements and the communities’ capacity to manage the scheme. Based on the information, different scenarios for selection programes will be developed. These will vary in terms of complexity and requirements of data. The results of these different simulations will be presented to the community pointing out advantages and disadvantages. The community will then have to make a decision. Finally, the community will take the first steps of implementation of the new breeding scheme.

• Equitable use of Transboundary Waters: the status quo in the Nile Basin and Ethiopia`s Rights under International Law

  Equitable use of Transboundary Waters: the status quo in the Nile Basin and Ethiopia`s Rights under International Law

• Kartierung von lokalen Futterpflanzen

  The highlands of Ethiopia cover 45 % of the country's landmass, and comprise 95 % of the cropland and 70 % of the livestock population (Mohamed and Abate, 1995; CSO, 1988). It is also estimated that 88 % of the human population settle in the highlands at an average density of 64 persons/km2. Soil fertility depletion and shortages of animal feed are priority problems in the highlands (Seyoum et al. 2001; ICRAF, 1990; Aregawi, 1989 ). As a result of feed shortages, animals die at their early age, supply low milk yield, marketed at low price and provide weak draft power (Kindu, 2001). Similarly, crop production is affected due to decline of soil fertility. Continuous cultivation, soil erosion and continued removal of nutrients in crop harvests are attributed for depletion of soil fertility in the highlands (Kindu and Taye, 1997).

• Evaluation of Common Indigenous Trees and Shrubs for Soil Fertility Improvement and Fodder Production in Highland Areas of Northern Gondar, Ethiopia

  Evaluation of Common Indigenous Trees and Shrubs for Soil Fertility Improvement and Fodder Production in Highland Areas of Northern Gondar, Ethiopia

• Evaluation of Common Indogenous Trees and Shrubs for Soil Fertility Improvement and Fodder Production in Highland Areas of Nothern Gondar, Ethiopia

  Evaluation of Common Indogenous Trees and Shrubs for Soil Fertility Improvement and Fodder Production in Highland Areas of Nothern Gondar, Ethiopia

• Expanding biological control of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L. in Eastern and Southern Africa

  Major Research Domain: diamond back moth, Plutella xylostella, biological control, Diadegma semiclausum, parasitoids Goal: Enhance food security and reduce poverty through sustainable vegetable production.

• Fighting desertification in the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia: analysis of the successes and failures of measures aimed at controlling soil erosion

  The aim of the project is to maintain the soil in Ethiopia using efficient anti-erosion techniques and to offer sustainable support for the management of the landscape and of the water in the sub-humid and semi-arid altitude regions of Ethiopia. Promotor: J. Poesen

• Food and water security under global change: Developing adaptive capacity with a foucs on rural Africa

  Major Research Domain: food and water, policy analysis, adaptive capacity Goal: Development of capacity to adapt to global change for vulnerable rural areas in developing countries

• Forest rehabilitation through natural regeneration in Tigray, Ethiopia

  The objective of the project is to strengthen forest research capacity in Tigray by initiating fundamental forest regeneration experiments, by training Mekelle University staff and by providing better research facilities in order to contribute to the development of sustainable management plans for Ethiopia’s forest resources, in particular in Tigray. Promotor: B. Muys

• Genotype and Chemotype Studies of Purple Wheat and Black Barleys: 'New' Cereals for a Healthy Nutrition

  Genotype and Chemotype Studies of Purple Wheat and Black Barleys: 'New' Cereals for a Healthy Nutrition

• Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) based Landslide Hazard Appraisal and Risk Analysis in the Norther Highlands of Ethiopia

  Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) based Landslide Hazard Appraisal and Risk Analysis in the Norther Highlands of Ethiopia

• Growth and Yield Studies of Cupressus Lusitanica at Munesa Shashemene Forest

  Growth and Yield Studies of Cupressus Lusitanica at Munesa Shashemene Forest

• Impact of E. Globulus and E. camaldulensis small scale plantations on chemical and physical soil properties and soil hydrolgical parameters in the highland of Ethiopia

  The results of this study clearly demonstrate that growing Eucalyptus plantations has paramount importance in the highlands of Ethiopia. Although application of mineral fertilizer increases yields in arable farming, mineral fertilzier alone cannot sustain crop yields in the long run. Retention of crop residues in agricultural fields plays important roles in nutrient cycling, erosion control and the maintenance of appropriate soil physical and chemical properties. However, retention of crop residues in the farming system for the purpose of recycling nutrients and improvement of soil organic matter is unthinkable in the current status of unbalanced demand and supply of livestock fodder.

• Improving the value of maize as livestock feed and to enhance the livelihoods of maize-livestock farmers in East Africa

  Major Research Domain: maize, livestock feed, dual-purpose maize Goal: To investigate the potential of dual-purpose maize to enhance the livelihoods of resource poor crop-livestock farmers of East Africa

• Improving Water Productivity of Crop-Livestock Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa

  Goal: The goal of this project is to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers in mixed croplivestock systems, and mitigate land degradation of the semi-arid of Sub-Saharan Africa through increased productivity o fwater and improved governance of water resources. This coincides with IWMI´s mission to improve water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature, and IWMI, ICRISAT and ILRI´s commitment to the CGIAR priorities to develop livestock related options to improve management, conservation and use of water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Purpose: The project´s purpose is to develop and promote options for enhancing water productivity in the semi arid areas based on improved management options for livestock in mixed farming systems.

• Integration of multipurpose trees in mixed crop-livestock watershed systems for feed production and soil conservation

  Major Research Domain: Integrated watershed management, multipurpose trees, soil fertility, improved crop-livestock systems Priority: 3 Goal: Improved natural resource management on watershed level through livestock oriented agroforestry, soil conservation and nutrient management Purpose: Develop sustainable livestock-cropping systems for small scale farmers

• Investigation on the anti-methanogenic potential of foliage from African multipurpose trees used as supplements to improve livestock productivity

  eyond the merits of multi-purpose trees (MPT’s) as manipulators of microbial activity, which was observed in single stomached animals, results suggest that tropical plants have extensive effects. However, in the rumen, their effects on inherently inefficient fermentation processes such as methanogenesis and proteolysis still needs to be investigated since so far only very few studies were carried out actually measuring effects of MPT products on methane emission and on ruminal methanogenic population. The overall aim of the present project will be to identify natural and safe rumen manipulating agents from the widely present multipurpose trees in Africa. Therefore, various African MPTs will be investigated in different in vitro and in vivo experiments for their anti-protozoal and anti-methanogenic effects to develop feeding strategies to mitigate methane emissions from domestic ruminants for improved production efficiency. Additionally, undesired side-effects on the animal, for instance caused by detrimental concentrations of adverse plant secondary constituents of the MPT’s have to be studied carefully.

• Large-scale deployment of improved sweetpotatoes in sub-Saharan Africa

  Goal: To strengthen and extend a platform for partnerships that will deliver new sweetpotato production technologies to large numbers of farmers quickly and efficiently

• Nutritional Improvement of Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus)

  The present work focuses on eliminating human lathyrism by improving the nutritional quality of grass pea and increasing its economic value. A first approach is in progress by selection of somaclones and study of the stability of the nutritional properties of somaclones (ODAP and sulfur amino acid content). The regeneration of fertile plants from callus derived from several genotypes has been optimised. The metabolic pathway of the Lathyrus toxins will be studied for species differences and for potential grasspea specific metabolic steps and metabolites. This will allow to produces varieties with improved nutritional quality through pathway engineering. Grass pea can be considered a model plant for drought resistance and salt tolerance in legumes. The genomics of these properties may prove of crucial importance for the agro-economy of marginal lands and its growing population. Promotor: Prof. G. Gheysen Contact Prof. F. Lambein: Fernand.Lambein@UGent.be

• On-Farm Conservation of Dorum Wheat in the highlands of Arsi and Bale zones of Oromia Region

  Within the wider Arsi Bale Project, a multi-disciplinary component is implemented for the conservation and explitation of existing genetic resources of dorum wheat. Strengthening laboratory research capacibilities (electrophoresis for gliadin and glutenin reserve protein, assessment of quality parameters of wheat flours for industrial utilisation), improving seeds production. Furniture of equipment, training, R&D. The preparatory and transitory phases have been developed and currently a full fledged project is being prepared.

• Participatory development and testing of strategies to reduce climate vulnerability of poor farm households in East Africa through innovations in potato and sweet potato technologies and enabling policies

  Goal: Reduce climate vulnerability of poor farm households in East Africa through adoption of potato- and sweet potato-based technologies and enabling policies that increase the resilience and sustainability of agricultural systems Purpose: Adaptation strategies for poor farm households in East Africa based on new potato and sweet potato technologies and enabling policies are adopted by farmers and other stakeholders

• POST HARVEST LOSS INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR BETTER ESTIMATES OF FOOD AVAILABILITY

  Crop production figures are normally adjusted for post harvest (PH) loss in order to obtain the estimates of food availability on which any relief actions are based. To date, the origin and justification of figures used to make adjustments for PH losses have not been well founded. To remedy this situation, MARS-Food Sec, in association with AIDCO and FAO, has commissioned a project to obtain more realistic figures for the PH losses of cereal grains.

• Poverty and the Environment in Rural Ethiopia: a Household Level Analysis of Their Nexuws

  Poverty and the Environment in Rural Ethiopia: a Household Level Analysis of Their Nexuws

• Re-thinking water storage for climate change adaptation for sub-Saharan Africa

  Goal: To improve livelihoods and increase resilience of rural poor in SSA vulnerable to climate change risks through better water storage mechanisms, improved investments and institutional support Purpose: To guide policy and investment decisions of international development agencies, state bodies, NGOs, private funding institutions and local authorities towards storage options and strategies that ensure optimal adaptation to CC-induced impacts on water availability in SSA

• Safe food, fair food: Building capacity to improve the safety of animal-source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in sub Saharan Africa

  Goal: The goal of the project is to contribute to poverty alleviation by protecting both the health of low-income consumers and livestock-based livelihoods of the poor through improved food safety of livestock products in domestic markets in east, west and southern Africa. Purpose: The purpose of the project is to establish capacity for the sustained promotion of risk-based approaches thus improving food safety and participation of the poor in informal markets for livestock products in sub Saharan Africa.

• Strengthening Education and Training of the Graduate Programs in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering and Soil Sciences at Alemaya University

  Strengthening Education and Training of the Graduate Programs in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering and Soil Sciences at Alemaya University

• Studies on Homestead Fruit Tree Agroforestry Farming Systems, Farmers' Ecological Knowledge and Propagation Techniques of Indogenous Fruit Trees in the Debark and Adiarkay Districts of North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia

  Agroforestry Farming Systems, Farmers' Ecological Knowledge and Propagation Techniques of Indogenous Fruit Trees in the Debark and Adiarkay Districts of North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia

• Gestion durable de la ressource en eau dans le système du Rift Est-africain

  L'Ethiopie, le Kenya et Djibouti sont trois pays régulièrement confrontés à des problèmes d'approvisionnement en eau. La précarité de leur situation est accentuée par l'urbanisation et par les risques de pollution des nappes d'eau en relation avec les activités anthropiques. La gestion durable des ressources en eau est un enjeu majeur pour ces trois pays, qui partagent les mêmes ressources contrôlées par un système géologique commun : le Rift Est-africain. Le projet se propose de faire avancer les connaissances scientifiques du cycle de l'eau de la région du Rift Est-africain, pour une gestion intégrée des ressources. Il s'adresse aux universités et instituts spécialisés de ces trois pays auxquels il sera demandé de travailler en commun sur les thèmes fondamentaux des problématiques régionales de l'eau.

• The Dynamics of Rural-Urban Migration in Ethiopia: The Case of Adama (Nazret) Town

  The Dynamics of Rural-Urban Migration in Ethiopia: The Case of Adama (Nazret) Town

• The Potential, Constraints and Sustainable Strategies of Forest Development in Ethiopia

  The Potential, Constraints and Sustainable Strategies of Forest Development in Ethiopia

• VLIR-IUC Partnership MU: Appropriate farm technology for Vertisol management

  Farm technology - appropriate farm technology for Vertisol management under coordination of Prof. H. Verplancke (UGent) and Mr. Mekonnen Gebreselasie.

• VLIR-IUC Partnership MU: Ecological integrity and sustainable management of standing waters

  Aquatic ecology - ecological integrity and sustainable management of standing waters. Mekelle University will be a leading center in aquatic ecology of reservoirs and other standing waters; this includes expertise and capacity to study abiotic conditions, the biota and ecological relationships, parasite occurrence and nature value in standing waters as well as to assess the impact of management practices on the ecological structure and functioning of standing waters. Guidelines and recommendations (for the reduction of health risks associated with the use of water of the microdams, and for sustainable management of mcirodams) are available for policy makers and extension people (governmental and non-governmental organizations). A practical summary will be available in the local language for the local residents.

• VLIR-IUC Partnership MU: Hydrogeology for water resources management

  Hydrogeology for water resources management under coordination of Prof. F. De Smedt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Mr. Tesfamichael Gebreyohannes.

• VLIR-IUC Partnership MU: Land degradation and rehabilitation at the scale of the Geba catchment

  Land degradation and rehabilitation at the scale of the Geba catchment under coordination of Prof. J. Poesen and Mr. Amanuel Zenebe.

• VLIR-IUC Partnership MU: More crop per drop

  Enhanced crop production through improved irrigation water management and water-saving techniques under coordination of Prof. D. Raes and Dr. Fekadu Wondimagegnehu.

• VLIR-IUC Partnership MU: Socio-economic research for sustainable rural livelihoods

  Socio-economy - socio-economic research for sustainable rural livelihoods under coordination of Prof. E. Tollens (KULeuven) and Mr. Feredu Nega (MU).

• VLIR-IUC Partnership with Mekelle University (MU)

  This Partnership programme runs for 10 years (2003-2012) under coordination of Prof. J. Deckers (K.U.Leuven)and Dr. Mintesinot Behailu (MU). This programme consists of following activities: ICT and library development; institutional development; Collaborative training and research in following projects: More crop per drop - enhanced crop production through improved irrigation water management and water-saving techniques, Socio-economy - socio-economic research for sustainable rural livelihoods, Geo-hydrology - Hydrogeology for water resources management, Aquatic ecology - ecological integrity and sustainable management of standing waters, Land degradation - Land degradation and rehabilitation at the scale of the Geba catchment, Farm technology - appropriate farm technology for Vertisol management.