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German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) has the legal status of a company of limited liability (GmbH) operating on a non-profit basis. Major shareholders are the University of Kassel, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal State of Hessen. In accordance with her statutes DITSL fosters sustainable rural development in the Third World and countries in the process of industrialisation.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: Decentralised processing of rarely used plant and animal raw materials into innovative products with high added value to improve the nutritional situation in West Africa. Subproject 3
- Conservation and rural development: opportunities and risks of different development paths of smallholder farming systems (ECOL C)
- Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands - Subproject 1
- GlobE: RELOAD - Minimizing post yield losses - value creation in East African´s food supply chains, Partner D
- GlobE: Trans-Sec - Innovation strategies for health safety by technology and knowledge transfer - subproject F
- Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas
Involved in research projects
- Developing and initiating the implementation of AVRDC's organic vegetable program
- Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists to climatic change in West and Southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- Sustainable development of semi-arid grassland utilsation through optimised management of stock densities, recovery periods and carring capacity of organic cattle and sheep farming on the example of Springbockvley, Namibia
Contact
German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture
(DITSL)
Steinstraße 19
37213 Witzenhausen
Hesse
Germany
Phone: + 49 (0) 5542 / 607-0
Fax: + 49 (0) 5542 / 607-39
Email: info(@)ditsl.org