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Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems (NutriHAF-Africa)
Project
Project code: 2813FSNU03
Contract period: 16.03.2015
- 31.12.2018
Budget: 1,157,694 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: Ethiopia, Madagascar, global food security, secondary crop ingredients, nutrients, integrated production systems, food security, fruit production, human nutrition, vegetable production, knowledge transfer, networking
The research project investigates and integrates suitable fruit and vegetables into multi-level production systems with the aim of improving the (micro-) nutrient supply to the local population and at the same time diversifying and intensifying local agricultural production. This approach facilitates the reduction of pressure on protected areas or regions in biodiversity hotspots. The use of a gender-sensitive participatory action research approach increases the adoption potential of the research results by the local male and female smallholder farmers as their needs and ideas are included from the beginning. The three-year inter- and transdisciplinary project in Ethiopia and Madagascar consists of 6 work packages, including two research and one advisory component: i) multistorey cultivation systems with fruit and vegetables; ii) socio-economic aspects of these cultivation systems and those using them; iii) a capacity building and knowledge transfer component which, through practical training and learning events institutionalises the application of the research results. A seventh work package comprises the coordination of the overall project and in particular inter- and transdisciplinary 'feedback and learning workshops'. Partners in this project are three institutions of the University of Bonn (ZEF, GlobalHort and KoGa), the International Centre for Sustainable Development - IZNE of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences as well as private companies from the horticultural cultivation and processing sector. Main partners in Africa are Ethiopian and Madegascan research and development organisations as well as two African regional organisations (FANRPAN and ASARECA). Other partners are the World Vegetable Centre AVRDC and the USAID-financed Horticulture Innovation Lab.
Section overview
Subjects
- Arboriculture
- Vegetable Gardening
- Agricultural Sociology
- Physiology of Nutrition
- Agroeconomics
- Nutritional behaviour
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Participating institutions
- German Agro Action (WHHD)
- The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)
- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
- Horticulture Centre (KOGA)
- Global Horticulture Initiative
- International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE)
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
- Center for Gender Studies (CGS)
- National Centre of Applied Research for Rural Development (FOFIFA)
- Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
- Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF)
- Horticulture Innovation Lab
