Research Projects

CLIFOOD
The DAAD program: Bilateral SDG Graduate School funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), seeks to help achieving the new SDGs which are related to the core areas. To this purpose, the German-Ethiopian SDG Graduate School “CLIFOOD” between the University of Hohenheim (Germany) with its Food Security Center (FSC) and the Hawassa University (Ethiopia) has been established in 2016...more

BiomassWeb
The increasing global demand for food, as well as for feed and biomass-based raw materials, e.g. fuel and fiber crops, has increased the pressure on the agricultural sector in the past decade, especially in Africa. Concepts to increase food security while attending growing demands for non-food biomass and developing alternative biomass sources are still in their infant stages. BiomassWeb aims at contributing to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa ...more

NutritionSec
Njala University, offering programs in agriculture, food technology, nutrition and home economics, had to leave the campus during the rebel war. The University re-opened at the Njala Campus in 2005. Brain-drain and partial destruction of physical infrastructure will require some long term assistance. Against this background, FAO has started to assist the University in establishing a BSc Module on Food and...more

EntoNUTRI
The project's objective is to enhance food and nutritional security through the use of insects as food. The consumption of crickets (e.g. the house cricket Acheta domesticus), the longhorn grasshopper (Ruspolia differens), and a variety of saturniid caterpillars (e.g. Imbrasia zambesina and Cirina forda) is part of the food culture of some communities in Kenya and Uganda and constitutes 5-10% of protein intake...more

Early identification, prevention and treatment of child malnutrition in rural regions of West Bengal, India
On the basis of research results of two doctoral theses a dissemination workshop was held at the beginning of April 2017. It took place at the Visva Bharati University in (Department Rural Development) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sujit Kumar Paul. The newest field research results were presented by...more

SATNET Asia
The purpose of this project was to increase and accelerate the rate of adoption of sustainable and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies and improve regional trade in food products. Its aim was to strengthen South–South dialogue and intraregional learning on sustainable agriculture technologies and trade facilitation. The role of FSC was to develop a portfolio of knowledge and best practices on...more

Study: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture
The study provided an overview of the cross-cutting themes relevant to nutrition-sensitive agriculture (conceptual discussion, plant breeding, gender, production and processing, home and community gardens, urban agriculture and market integration) and presented examples from eight countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Malawi, Mongolia, the Philippines and...more

Alumni Project
The overall objective of the seminar was the preparation of Germany Alumni to contribute to the development of measures against hidden hunger using interdisciplinary approaches. Participation at the International Food Security Network Seminar qualified Germany Alumni for an active participation at the 3rd International Congress Hidden Hunger - both methodologically and scientifically. The Food Security defines...more