Find a Collaborator

Listed below are people who are interested in finding a collaborator to work on horticulture research or other horticulture-related projects. In order to provide a more expansive, global list of potential collaborators, the list below includes many individuals who have not worked with the Horticulture Innovation Lab in the past, in addition to some researchers who have indeed worked with our network.

The Horticulture Innovation Lab provides this tool for information only and does not intend to endorse the individuals listed. If you would like to consider working with individuals on this list, please contact them directly via email.

We invite you to submit your information to be added to this list, as a potential collaborator. (If you are already listed and would like your information removed, send an email to horticulture@ucdavis.edu.)

Haiti

Samantha Rachel Brody - Haiti

Email: srbrody@earth.ac.cr

Project Idea: Creating data from real farmer's farm in developed country like, with collaboration of international and national researcher, student and volunteer around the world related to the climate change effect.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: All region. Agriculture (Horticulture, irrigation, plant nutrition), Write proposal, teamwork

Cameroon

Aminatou Oumarou - Cameroon

Email: amina2oum@gmail.com

Project Idea: To build a greenhouse on our farmland in the far north region of Cameroon in order grow tomato and other vegetables for the growing population that is displaced people running away from insecurity and neighbouring countries market that is Chad and Nigeria and provide employment to people of the area as well as teaching them new farming techniques.

Expertise: Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are are looking for a partner or an NGO that can fund the project , that can provide agricultural experience , that can give advices on the project, etc...

Dr. Klaus Fleissner - Cameroon

AVRDC - World Vegetable Center

Email: klaus.fleissner@worldveg.org

Project Idea: Integrated agroforestry - vegetable systems for the subtropical and tropical agro-ecological zones of Cameroon

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Light intensity measurements under tree canopies, collaborator can be any university working on the topic and should have the necessary technical equipment and be able to bring it and work with it in Cameroon

Nkemboh jerry wozineboye - Cameroon

MIFACIG

Email: jerrico04@yahoo.com

Project Idea: i am interested in the cultivation of agroforestry tress in my country so as to mitigate climate change which can serve lifes and livelihood

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: An acquired knowledge in agriculture

Nepal

Srijana Joshi - Nepal

Email: siru_jr@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Promotion of organic farming for sustainable development

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We have already established a farm in Nepal and need technical and financial support to take it forward

Dikshit Poudel - Nepal

Agriculture and Forestry University and Central Agricultural Laboratory, Nepal

Email: dikshit.pdl@gmail.com

Project Idea: Research in traditional food preservation and post-harvest loss reduction in developing countries, packaging and drying methods, providing rural farming community with high-value cropping strategies and linking them with the market, launching Farmer Market Schools

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post-Harvest loss reduction, feasibility study, lab experiment in horticultural storage pests, market system linkages and analysis, the economics of loss, agricultural engineering, projects dealing with high-value sustainable cropping

Bharat P. Upadhyay - Nepal

Center for Environment and Agricultural Research, Extension and Development (CEAPRED)

Email: bharat.upadhyay@ceapred.org.np

Project Idea: 1. Social mobilization, community capacity building and local institution building for poverty reduction through income generating activities
2. Participatory research in collaboration with farmers to generate technologies. Focus is on agrobiodiversity, indegenous knowledge and climate change adaptation.

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Can provide expertise in the areas of social mobilization, training, institution building, problem-based action research and policy analysis for enabling environment.

Madan Poudel - Nepal

Kings College

Email: mdnpoudel@outlook.com

Project Idea: Intensive Organic Farming techniques, Farmers Market, Community Supported Agriculture, Market Gardening, No Dig Gardening, Permaculture

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Landscape design, marketing of organic vegetables, DIY low cost farm tools and machineries

Dr. Tek P Gotame - Nepal

Nepal Agricultural Research Council

Email: gotame@gmail.com

Project Idea: "Action research on livestock and horticulture integration for sustainable food and nutrition security in the hills of Nepal
Integration of horticulture crops and animals is a typical agricultural practice among smallholder farmers in Nepal. There are trade-offs in productivity, socio-economic status and unemployment. Horticulture and animal products such as high value fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat are highly demanded in city centre and in return stallholders earn income which is used to cater household needs. It is necessary to evaluate how mixed farming of both animal species and horticulture crops improve food and nutrition security, sustainable soil-environment management, socio-economic changes and poverty reduction in Nepal.
Activities
• Baseline survey on socio-economic status before project intervention
• Development of sustainable horti-pastoral technology (e.g., kiwifruit, banana, papaya, pomegranate and intercropping with legume forage such as alfalfa, berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)
 Effect on soil fertility, milk production (cow/buffaloes), meat production (goat and meat)
• Development of sustainable vegetable-goat integration technology (legume vegetables such as bean, cowpea, asparagus bean production and goat farming)
• Farm Yard Manure (FYM) improvement techniques for sustainable fruit and vegetable production for smallholders
• Micro-enterprise in value addition and horti-animal product processing
• Capacity building and training
• Impact assessment"

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Integrated Animal-Horticulture System

Naresh Shahi - Nepal

Nepali Technical Assistance Group (NTAG)

Email: nepalnaresh07@gmail.com

Project Idea: Good Agriculture Practices and decontamination of fresh fruits and vegetables at household levels

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Dipendra Pokharel - Nepal

Regional Agricultral Training Center, Kaski, Nepal

Email: ratcpok@gmail.com

Project Idea: Human Capital Development in Nepal for Horticulture Development

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: I need a PI from this university.

Sabitri Dahal - Nepal

SADP Nepal

Email: sabitri@sadpnepal.org

Project Idea: Introducing new technologies for postharvest and market system of the organic vegetables for the socio-economic development of indigenous community of Tanahu district

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: New technologies to be introduce for postharvest from developed and developing countris

Raj Adhikari - Nepal

SECARD Nepal

Email: rka.npl@gmail.com

Project Idea: Strengthening Market System for Organic Fruits and Vegetables.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Sundar Tiwari - Nepal

Tribhubhan University /Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Rampur Campus

Email: tiwari_sundar@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Sustainable production of crops through Integrated Pest Management in Nepal

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Capacity building on IPM, Predator and Parasitoids Identification, Biopesticides, Cultural, Mechanical, Physical, Biological Pest Management, Food Safety etc

Amit Khanal - Nepal

Tribhuvan University

Email: agstdamit@gmail.com

Project Idea: Assessing the postharvest loss in perishable and non perishable, Design and develop different postharvest technologies to protect postharvest loss and helps in food security and nutrition

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Egypt

Dr Atef Elansari - Egypt

Abt associates Egypt USAID contractor

Email: Atef_Elansari@abtassoc.com

Project Idea: Capacity building on postharvest and the development of infrastructure of cold chain

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest and cold chain skills. Egypt

Hussein Al-Amier - Egypt

Al-Azhar University

Email: halamier66@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Effective and better utilization of native plant genetic resources
Improving of medicinal plants for environmental stress

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA, South Sudan

Mohamed El-Mogy - Egypt

Cairo University

Email: elmogymmm75@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Using some novel natural edible coating material extracting from local plants for extending storage ability of fruits and vegetables

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Mohamed M. El-mogy - Egypt

Cairo University

Email: elmogy@agr.cu.edu.eg

Project Idea: Reduce loss and waste of vegetables crops such as strawberry, tomatoes, green bean, potato, onion, melon, and pepper. This reduce in loss could be several techniques such as:
1- Non-chemical control of postharvest diseases.
2- Develop new packages.
3- Train the labors for good postharvest operations.
4- Enhance low cost facility for cooling.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Yehia Salah Mostafa Ahmed - Egypt

Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University

Email: yehia_pomology@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Reduction of postharvest losses of fruit crops - assessment of on-farm and handling losses on the different fruit crops - identify the cusses of losses - help to establish a strategy to overcome the deterioration factors and use of applicable postharvest practices under small scale conditions.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building

Hamdino M. I. Ahmed - Egypt

Horticulture Research Institute

Email: hamdino@yahoo.com

Project Idea: 1- Vegetable crops seed systems and germplasm conservation.
2- Sustainable production of vegetables.
3- Underutilized crops.
4- Promotion of horticultural export.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: 1.Proposal writing skills
2.Experience Sustainable Production Systems

United Arab Emirates

Noura - United Arab Emirates

Abudhabi Food Control Authority

Email: noura.alnuaimi@adfca.ae

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.), Nutrition and human health

Burundi

NDAYISENGA Oscar - Burundi

ACTION SOLIDAIRE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT COMMUNAUTAIRE

Email: osclanda@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: 1/training farm for famers
2/banking seeds in village
3/woman empowement and youth in sustainable development
4/malnutrition development handicap
5/village field demonstration
TWEREKE TWITEZIMBERE

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: any where

Mali

Simana KONE - Mali

ADECOR Mali

Email: konesimana@yahoo.fr

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Ousmane SANOGO - Mali

AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center

Email: ouzbi777@gmail.com

Project Idea: Gender and Hortiucltural Production, germplasm conservation, nutrtion and poverty reduction, rdution of pesticide uses, and postharvest systems

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Modern technologies from both developed and developing countries

Pascal Adams THERA - Mali

CECOZ

Email: Lova_Consult9@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Training youth in sustinable production systems and Market systems to unable them create sustainable agricultural enterprises.

Expertise: Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Funding opportunities - Capacity building - USA, Canada and Autralia

TOGOLA Abou - Mali

NGO: ASF-Mali

Email: ongasf@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Pilot project to improve horticultural post harvest technologies, Income and food Supply in Mali

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We need a Principal Investigator from any US University.

Sokona Dagnoko - Mali

Polytechnical Rural Institute of training and Applied Research

Email: sokona.dagnoko@gmail.com

Project Idea: Sorghum and vegetable crops genetic improvement (yield, quality traits, nutritional content, market value added traits, abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, climate change adaptation), food security, human and animal nutrition

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant breeding and genetics, stress tolerance, disease and pest resistance, post harvest issues, sustainable animal production and climate change, improvement of extension services and technologies.

Jean Baptiste De la Salle Tignegre - Mali

World Vegetable Center

Email: jean-baptiste.tignegre@worldVeg.org

Project Idea: My project aims at developing hybrid onion programme for WorldVeg based in Mali from local onion varieties in West Africa. The use or development of short days' Cyoplasmic Male Sterile (CMS) onion lines will help development F1 hybrids whith resilience regarding seasonal climate fluctuations for poor household farmers in West and central Africa. We seks for resource onion expert and available CMS to develop this programme.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: The Partner is suitable as onion breeder or biotechnologist, genebbank manager based in Netherland, India and working on short day onion hybrid program.

Kenya

Tabby Karanja-Lumumba - Kenya

Adopt4Impact International

Email: tkaranja@adopt4impact.org

Project Idea: Engendered Sustainable Agribusiness

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Raphael Otakwa - Kenya

African PRIDE Centre

Email: raphael.makokha@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Kitchen Gardening and its Role in the Promotion of Agribusiness and Eco-tourism in Western Kenya

Expertise: Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Marketing (including web and social media-based), Fundraising Tactics, Cultural valoration

Martin Kimani - Kenya

CABI Africa

Email: M.Kimani@cabi.org

Project Idea: Seed systems – Improving Access of Quality Seed to Smallholder; Postharvest - Impediments to Adoption and Benefits of Improved Practices; Orange-fleshed Sweet potato – Improved Supply Chain and Consumer Acceptance

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Related to postharvest, seed systems and orange fresh supply chain analysis

Richard Musebe - Kenya

CABI Africa

Email: R.Musebe@cabi.org

Project Idea: Seed systems – Improving Access of Quality Seed to Smallholder; Postharvest - Impediments to Adoption and Benefits of Improved Practices

Expertise: Market systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Seed systems and Postharvest systems

Daniel Kimani Karanja - Kenya

CABI Africa

Email: D.Karanja@cabi.org

Project Idea: Seed systems – Improving Access of Quality Seed to Smallholder

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Seed systems for developing countries

Noah Anthony Phiri - Kenya

CABI Africa

Email: N.Phiri@cabi.org

Project Idea: 1. Seed systems – Improving Access of Quality Seed to Smallholder - currently supporting NERICA Seed production in Uganda and Southern Sudan
2.Postharvest - Impediments to Adoption and Benefits of Improved Practices.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Somebody specialized in Seed Systems or post harvest, both in relation to developing countries. The location should be United States (preferably working for a University)

Margaret Akinyi Wagah - Kenya

Development Concern International in Kenya

Email: wagamargaret@gmail.com

Project Idea: Nutrition and its Synergies with Agriculture to ensure optimal nutrition outcomes

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: technical assignments on multisectoral approaches to nutrition. I have worked on international assignments; subSaharan Africa; Eastern and Southern African region

Prof. D. K. Isutsa - Kenya

Egerton University

Email: dorcaski@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Development of formal value chains for under-utilized fruit and vegetable crops in Kenya, East Africa or sub-Saharan Africa

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Market systems, postharvest systems and food safety, nutrition and human health

Paul Kilelu - Kenya

Enkusero Sampu Conservancy

Email: enkuserosampu@gmail.com

Project Idea: Kitchen Garden Project

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Funding

Paul Kilelu - Kenya

Enkusero Sampu Conservancy

Email: paulkilelu@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Kitchen Garden Development

Expertise: Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Peninah Mutuku - Kenya

EXODUS FARM LIMITED

Email: peninah@exodusfarm.co.ke

Project Idea: Create market linkage for small scale grain farmers in Kenya. This includes providing intensive training on post harvest systems and food safety, smaller farmer economic empowerment and production of simple farming technology like use of planting dibbler, 10hp engine tractor and fruit processing machine.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Capacity building, Mechanical Engineering expertise.

John Bosco Wambugu - Kenya

Fama Center

Email: famacenterkenya@gmail.com

Project Idea: We are enhancing food security through making available the necessary technologies and training to support sustainable agriculture production and reduction of post-harvest loss. We have key interests in ending water poverty and post-harvest storage for perishables

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are looking for a partner(s) or a researcher(s) interested in food security technologies especially Post harvest storage & packaging for perishables and Water. We don’t care where you are based we only care our enthusiasm. Reach to us anytime

Njeri Luvonga - Kenya

Fanaka Growers and Produce Ltd

Email: Fanakagrowers@gmail.com

Project Idea: Demystifying profitability in French Beans farming

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Fundraising, Networking. Expertise on alternative high value rotational crops /Market systems /capacity buiding are also ideal

NEHEMIAH GITONGA MBAYA - Kenya

Farmsoft

Email: nehemsrich@hotmail.co.uk

Project Idea: Farmsoft is fresh produce software for medium-large businesses. It aims for less waste, more traceability, accurate inventory & shipping.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: African Market

FLORENCE MASIA - Kenya

Horticultural Crops Development Authority (HCDA)

Email: flomasia@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Post harvest handling systems for small scale flower growers

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post harvest systems and Enabling environment

Eric G. Mworia - Kenya

Horticultural Crops Development Authority (HCDA)

Email: ericngiri@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Improvement of postharvest handling practices and technology for food security, nutritional enhancement and sustainable development

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Market systems, Enabling Environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc), Nutrition and Human Health

David Maina - Kenya

Intergrated off-grid power solutions int

Email: dkariega@gmail.com

Project Idea: Integration of renewable energy systems in sustainable agriculture for wealth creation and livelihood improvement

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: renewable energy technologies, research methods and methodology

Prof. Arnold O. Watako - Kenya

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Agriculture and Technology (JOOUST)

Email: arnoldwatako@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Integrating horticulture crops ( fruits and vegetables) into other agricultural enterprises in smallholder units in the Lake region areas of Kenya.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post harvest specialist and Socio - economist

Dr. Michael Wawire - Kenya

Jomo-Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Email: wawiremm@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Value addition of bananas in rural Kenya (Kisii)

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Caroline Agamala Kundu - Kenya

KALRO

Email: carolinekundu@gmail.com

Project Idea: Managing soil for enhanced crop nutrition

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Exploiting the 4R nutrient stewardship in Kenya

Naomi Ndembei - Kenya

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization

Email: Mugechi2012@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing Agribusiness skills/capacity among the youth especially in Orange fleshed sweet potato in Kenya

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Nutrition and Human health, Post handling and food security

Rahab Magoti - Kenya

Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization(KALRO)

Email: rahabmagoti@gmail.com

Project Idea: Capacity building on Horticultural commodities in Kenya. I have a great passion on flower farming and seed supply systems in Kenya and linking farmers to international flower markets. Kenya is endowed with good climate where small scale farmers can be assisted with marketable flowers for international markets to for income generating. Currently very few small scale farmers are in the flower business unlike 10 years ago due to shortage of flower seeds

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticulture value chain
Capacity building
Seed systems and post harvest handling of vegetables

Ndembei Naomi - Kenya

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute

Email: mugechi@gmail.com

Project Idea: Promotion of production and utilization of orange fleshed sweet potato in marginal areas of Kenya

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Capacity building
Post harvest systems

Margaret Muchui - Kenya

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)

Email: margaretmuchui@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Postharvest handling and value addition of horticultural crops (Fruits and vegetables)to reduce losses and increase incomes of youth and women in rural Kenya

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest physiology, cottage level processing of horticultural crops (fruits and vegetables)

Mary Anyango Oyunga - Kenya

Kenya Agriculture Research Institute

Email: oyungam2010@gmail.com

Project Idea: Research on Linking Agriculture, Health and Nutrition using orange fleshed sweepotato

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Should be a nutritionist from a US public University

Richard Karori - Kenya

Kenya Association for Maternal & Neonatal Health -KAMANEH

Email: kamanehk@gmail.com

Project Idea: Promoting community-level food, nutrition and health outcomes for poor mothers and children in Kenya.

Expertise: Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Interested in partnering with interested principal investigators/fundraisers in maternal and child nutrition research and promotion in Kenya.Also writing project proposals and fund raising online is considered.

Nancy M. Laibuni - Kenya

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

Email: nmunyiva@gmail.com

Project Idea: Contributing to the dissemination of gender responsive technologies and innovations to increase agricultural productivity and reduce post-harvest losses.

Expertise: Market systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: PI- land grant University USA preferable in Agriculture Economics
Post harvest physiologist
Horticulture Agronomist
Expert in innovation systems
Sociologist/ Gender expert

Nicholas Korir - Kenya

Kenyatta University, KU

Email: korir.nicholas@ku.ac.ke

Project Idea: Conservation Agriculture in Vegetable systems; Application of Biotechnology; Optimized nutrition for vegetables and fruits; Indigenous vegetables and fruits

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Joram Kirira - Kenya

Kiini Sustainable Initiative

Email: jkirira@kiiniinitiative.org

Project Idea: To enhance the capacity of rural farming communities to efficiently and sustainably utilize both human and natural resources for increased productivity and adoption of climate smart agriculture mitigation strategies.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Fundraising and resources mobilization:Kenya

Joseph N. Gichoni - Kenya

Megabridge Foundation

Email: megabridgefoundation@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Community Based Horticulture Promotion Project
Megabridge Foundation is a Kenyan Non Governmental working in Eastern province of Kenya. The main objective of the foundation is to improve livelihood opportunities for the through providing skills and support resources for self reliance.

The project will be implemented within Embu, Meru and Tharaka-Nithi Counties. Majority of the residents in this region which has a total population of over 2.2 million (source 2009 census) people are poor peasant farmers with thousands of orphaned and children made vulnerable by HIV AIDS – currently under care of elderly grandparents or relatives who are unable adequately take care of them. Majority of the residents in this region are poor peasant farmers. Due to the high prices of different certified seeds they continue using low quality seeds. This leads to low quality and quantity production. This is the main cause of perennial hunger and malnourishment in this region. Majority of this rural populations survive on less than one dollar per day; they are the most severely affected by the food crisis and the increase in basic food prices, with fruits and vegetables being like a privilege that majority go without.

Thus the main constrains in the region are:-
1) Poor quality seeds
2) Lack of knowledge on modern farming techniques
3) Over dependence on expensive inorganic fertilizers and chemicals
4) Lack of market information and adequate markets – products going into waste due to lack of market and preservation technology.
5) Lack of business techniques and skills
6) Over dependence on rain water for farming

Our program focuses on promoting access to horticultural seeds, traditional food products and increasing the population’s ability to produce food and generate income through the sale of part of this production, as well as promoting a healthy and varied diet among residents and an opportunity for extra income through local or export markets.

The project goals are to:
a) Increase incomes and reduce poverty among poor rural households and the unemployed and underemployed in areas with medium-to high farming potential and where horticulture is perceived to be a an important possible source of livelihood; and
b) Improve the health and welfare of Kenyans by increasing the quality and quantity of horticultural produce consumed within the country or exported.
c) Promote utilization of neglected tradition food crops like sweet potatoes which are draught resistant by promoting fast maturing varieties unlike the traditional varieties which usually take over one year to mature.
d) Establishing demonstration and training centers within the three counties
e) Promote African Indigenous Vegetables like; Managu, Amaranth, Cowpea, Eggplant (Garden Egg) - To give some idea of their potential to help solve the great central issues of local humanitarian and economic development, by highlighting their relevance to four local biggest needs for human survival and social serenity: 1) nutrition, 2) food security, 3) rural prosperity, and 4) general land care.
f) To enable local communities make use of world trade agreements like AGOA which allow export of some quality horticultural products to US

These goals will be achieved through:
i) Increasing the output of – and the net margins per unit of land earned by – resource-poor smallholders from horticultural production for the domestic to export market;
ii) Increasing employment in the production, processing and marketing of horticultural produce; and
iii) Reducing the cost to consumers and increase the quality of horticultural products consumed domestically or exported.
iv) Capacity building by providing quality seeds, training and extension services to the farmers
v) Promoting quality production and providing linkages with, cold storage facilities, drying technologies and markets to prevent postharvest losses.
vi) Assist in diversification of local resources by encouraging organic production methods.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Proposal writer
To assist in compiling this proposal to the required standards

Horticultural Crops Extension Specialist
For coordination and assistance for the on-farm grower trials
Collaborations with researchers and growers on open fields & high tunnel production issues

Vegetable and Small Fruit Crops Specialist
Extended season production of small fruits and vegetables on open fields & high tunnels

Development of material related to open fields high tunnel farmers education.
Management practices for sustainable soil fertility
Disease & pests suppression
Soil quality management

Horticulture Training Specialist,
Development of material related to high tunnel education.
Agrochemicals and pest control specialists
Horticultural products quality assurance

Horticulture production Specialist,
Microclimate Modification including
Low cost drip irrigation systems
Building low cost Greenhouses
Cropping systems
Extended season production of warm season crops

Marketing specialists
Horticulture product marketing

JOEL MUKANDA PEKA - Kenya

Ministry of Agriculture

Email: pekajoe2000@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Value chains development for smallholder farmers. smallholder Entrepreneurial agriculture.

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Successful developing of value chains. Denmark, U.S.A

Violet K. Mugalavai - Kenya

Moi University, Chepkoilel University College

Email: violet.mugalavai@gmail.com

Project Idea: Using the small scale cluster development model for sustainable livelihoods for food and nutrition security for poverty alleviation.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA partners, Kenyans and Ugandans with good ideas and proposal writing skills.

Denis nyamu - Kenya

mwea fruits and vegetables farmers association

Email: denisnyamu@yahoo.com

Project Idea: bringing market gap towards farmer earning more

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: marketing platform

Susan Kanguha - Kenya

Ngando Universal Centre

Email: ngandounice@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Running a support programme for poor farmers to enhance their production through support in all areas of food production at farm level and post harvest. This is what what most farmers need.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skills in
-Horticultural and general farming.
-Food safety systems
-Sustainable agricultural systems.
-Skills in agriculture
-Creating conducive production environment
-Women in food production
-Food and health

JJ WACHIRA - Kenya

nyukiagribusiness

Email: jjwachira@yahoo.com

Project Idea: To bridge the existing knowledge gap through capacity building the rural youths and women in sustainable agriculture practices for improved livelihood and wealth creation

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: knowledge in horticulture production, natural resource management, fund raising and community development

john mundia - Kenya

postgraduate student in crop sciences

Email: mrefujohnie@gmail.com

Project Idea: response of common food crops to allelopathic effects of tobacco in major growing areas in Africa

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Dr. Bonface Manono - Kenya

School of Environment and Natural Resources Management, South Eastern Kenya University

Email: bmanono@seku.ac.ke

Project Idea: High percentage of food harvest goes to waste in Kenya because of handling, transportation and storage. For sustainability, efficient ways should be sort to minimise this and also use the waste in the supply of nutrients back to the farms.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Sustainable production systems, capacity building, post harvest technologies, enabling environment for food production.

THOMAS MUTUNGA - Kenya

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (SACDEP-KENYA).

Email: tkmutunga@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Sustainable agro production, agro processing, marketing.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: sustainable agriculture, fundraising, community development.

Martin Nyongesa - Kenya

Sustainable Agriculture Programmes Community Education and Development (SAP-CED Kenya)

Email: sapcedkenya@yahoo.com

Project Idea: African Indigenous Vegetables – Nutritional value and Enhanced Supply Chain and
Consumer Acceptance in Kenya and Southern Sudan

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: SKILLS
A. Baseline household income/nutrition survey
B. Varity evaluation
a. Productivity
b. Postharvest performance
c. Nutritional value
C. Production system
a. Seed availability
b. Irrigation systems
c. Fertilization
D. Postharvest handling
a. Fresh - Cooling, packaging, transportation, marketing
b. Dried – solar, drying beads, packaging, storage
E. Market systems
F. Nutritional value
a. Variety
b. Postharvest and processing effects
G. Changes in household income and nutrition

Location: USA

mary mwangi - Kenya

the marisons community network

Email: mwanjera@gmail.com

Project Idea: to promote moringa oliefera as a vegetable in Kenya for malnutrition/health

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: post harvesting
solar drying
capacity building
training
processing and packaging

Nahshon Moturi - Kenya

United Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd.

Email: umcs48@gmail.com

Project Idea: Making Markets Work for Women Smallholder Farmers:

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticulture Value Chain Market Relations and Nutrition

Mr. Emmanuel Owino Ayua - Kenya

University of Eldoret

Email: emmanuel.ayua@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing food security for households in semi- arid lands of Kenya

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: -research skills, data analysis and food analysis

Sophia Ochiki - Kenya

University of Kabianga

Email: sophiaochiki@gmail.com

Project Idea: maintaining postharvest quality of fruits and extension of shelf life by use of natural extracts

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: postharvest physiology and technology

NICHOLAS WANYAMA MACHANI - Kenya

VEGPRO KENYA

Email: n.wanyama@vegpronkenya.org

Project Idea: TRAINING FARMERS IN WESTERN-KENYA IN GROWING ONIONS

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: GETTING DONORS TO FINANCE THE PROJECT

Lindy Wafula - Kenya

Village Ventures Kenya

Email: villageventures.kenya@gmail.com

Project Idea: Empowering women in Sweet Sorghum and Soya bean farming for enterprise development

India

Rajeev Ranjan - India

Agpulse Private Limited

Email: agpulse@outlook.com

Project Idea: 1. Biodiversity Friendly Botanical Pest Management 2. Black Rice based Superfood

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Should have ground presence, should be a small organization preferably a startup or NGO in agriculture & rural development space

DR. PALLAB DATTA - India

Bidhan chandra krishi viswavidyalaya

Email: pallab_bckv@rediff.com

Project Idea: Organic Fruit production, Underutilised fruit production,Nutrition and Health

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: South Asian countries, America, European countries

Dr. Utkarsh Ghate - India

CCD- The Covenant Center for Development

Email: ccdnorth@gmail.com

Project Idea: We provide company format, quality seeds, market access, machinery & processing techniques to farmers to build their skills for sustainable horticulture in central/ eastern India.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Any intern/ donor/ technology or market advisor is welcome to associate.

Surendran - India

Center for Water Resources Development and Management

Email: u.surendran@gmail.com

Project Idea: Natural Resource Management, Soil fertility

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Willing for any other disciplines, by which NRM can be sustained

Prerak Bhatnagar - India

College of Horticulture & Forestry, JHALAWAR

Email: prerakb_22@yahoo.co.in

Project Idea: Fruit production systems under arid and semi arid regions.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Fruit physiology and orchard management strategies.

Dr.Kh.Swarnalata Devi - India

CSIR, NEIST, Branch Laboratory, Lamphelpat, Manipur

Email: swarna.lata.khwairakpam@gmail.com

Project Idea: Sustainable Livelihood of Weaker section Population of Imphal East District of Manipur through Commercial Cultivation and Production of Local Cultivars of Taro (Clocasia esculenta (L).Schott)

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Villages of Imphal East districts ,Porompat, Sawombunng, Keirao Bitra, Jiribam

Dr R S Bharj - India

Department of Mechanical Engineering NITJ

Email: bharjrs@nitj.ac.in

Project Idea: Low cost Banana Ripening Chamber for Small Scale Farmers

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Ronjeev Das - India

FruitValley Strawberry Nursery

Email: ronjeevdas@gmail.com

Project Idea: NEW PROPOSAL FOR SETTING UP OF Fruitvalley Strawberry Nursery
FOR STRAWBERRY TISSUE-CULTURE AS WELL AS STRAWBERRY PROPAGATION
IN INDIA TO OPEN UP UNEXPLORED OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND AMERICAN SOIL

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Expertise in Tissue-Culture & Germplasm of Strawberry Runners & Cultivars to set up a Strawberry Seeds (Runners) Nursery

Vijay Kumar Doharey - India

GB PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY PANTNAGAR

Email: vijaydoharey@gmail.com

Project Idea: Empowering women through horticulture

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Training is needed

Prof R K Pal - India

IARI, New Delhi, INDIA

Email: rkrishnapal@gmail.com

Project Idea: Regulation of ripening and senescence of tropical and subtropical fruits. CAP and MAP for fresh fruits and vegetables. Functional foods for management of type-II diabetes.

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Simplified method for evaluation of hypoglycemic activity of foods without sacrificing animals

Kartik Jalan - India

Kailash Agro Cold Storage

Email: kartik@kailashagro.in

Project Idea: To establish a model horticulture aquaponics/hydroponics system and also do polyhouse farming in Palwal, Haryana. The farmers here mostly are in growing wheat or fodder. They do not understand and see that horticulture can be profitable.

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We need a partner who can guide us with the whole process of technology or agriculture side. Also, we are looking for funding as polyhouses and hydroponics infrastructure is capital intensive at the start.

R.MURTHY - India

KFFV GROWERS ASSOCIATION

Email: kffvgrowersasso@gmail.com

Project Idea: WE ARE SMALL&MEDIUM FARMERS growing vegetables, fruits, cut flowers in kodaikanal hill ,in tamilnadu in the hill station.we have good soil, water, climate, but we are poor in infrastructure facilities like post harvest, logistics, marketing the quality produce to right place ie, for export market.to avoid from the commission agents robbery, we have 19 cluster of small village cultivating in nearly about 9000 ha of land. we would like to one small area as a pilot project in investing production to post harvest we will welcome weproduce high quality produce for future supply to the world as little contribution world population and also social and enviorenmental contition.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: as we have mention we need good expertise from European or any interested country serving for world agriculture community

Dr. Sunil Pareek - India

Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology

Email: sunil_ciah@yahoo.co.in

Project Idea: Postharvest handling, management, and processing of fruits and vegetables especially underutilized frits for nutritional and economic security

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest handling including packaging and ripening

S.P. Singh - India

National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI)

Email: spsingh@nabi.res.in

Project Idea: Postharvest Biology and Technology of Perishables

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Molecular biologist or postharvest physiologist

Dr. Dileswar Nayak - India

NAVSARI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, INDIA

Email: dileswarnayak@nau.in

Project Idea: Sustainable agroforestry systems for food and nutritional security in tropical and sub tropical countries

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: WELL TRAINED TO COLLABORATE

T.J James - India

Peermade Development Society

Email: james.tj6@gmail.com

Project Idea: "We are implementing ITPGRFA supported project on food security, agro biodiversity conservation and climate change. This project is a the part of the first cycle of international benefit sharing process operated by International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO) and this project is one among the eleven projects selected from more than 400 applications received from all FAO member nations (www.planttreaty.org/funding_en.htm).

The basic objective of the project is to conserve, popularize and disseminate farmer developed varieties in an enterprise mode. Farmer breeder and women self help groups are the stakeholders. The farmer developed varieties included in the projects are food crops, such as cassava, yams, nutritional crops -indigenous beans, pea, moringa cultivated among tribal groups and cash crops –pepper, and cardamom.

We are exploring the possibilities of collaboration/ co funding in the proposed project, especially in the R&D part. The focus is to enhance adaptive capacities of farmers for tackling the issues of food security, climate change and livelihood by documenting and developing packages of practices of these indigenous crops by participatory methods and wider dissemination through networking. Developing value added products from these indigenous products in collaboration with various R&D sectors and establishing enterprises among women groups are the off shoots"

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Research and Development, Value addition ,Enterprise development

Dr. T. Ramanadane - India

PJN College of Agriculture and Res. Institute

Email: raman_nadane@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Advanced seed storage study under coastal ecosystem

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: any where in the world

Anirudh Thakur - India

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana

Email: anirudhthakur@pau.edu

Project Idea: Deficit Irrigation in Fruit Crops

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Micro irrigation systems in fruit crops. USA/ Israel

Dr Abhishek Sharma - India

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

Email: pauvirus@gmail.com

Project Idea: markers Assisted Selection for Development of Multiple disease resistant Chilli Cultivars

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Molecular Breeder

Dr SANDEEP SINGH - India

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Email: sandeep_pau.1974@pau.edu

Project Idea: IPM of fruit sucking moths in Citrus

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: IPM of fruits crops/USA

Dr Sandeep Kaur - India

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Email: sandeepentomologist@yahoo.co.in

Project Idea: Evaluation of IPM based management strategies for the control of chilli thrips

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: IPM or biological control of chilli thrips

Rupak Goswami - India

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, INDIA

Email: rupgoswami@ucdavis.edu

Project Idea: I plan to design sustainable agricultural production system through multistakeholder consultation and monitor/assess their sustainability with the help of cloud-based computations.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skill of crop management and/or application of big-data analysis in agriculture

Dr. J. Shankaraswamy - India

Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University, College of Horticulture, Mojerla, India

Email: shankara.swamy@gmail.com

Project Idea: Development of Bio Electromagnetic Natural Nanoformulations to tackle Billion tons of food loss, waste crisis during post-harvest handling and storage and to restore their nutritive values: Great Impact on Human Health

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Fruit physiology, pomology, Post Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops, Value addition, Cellular Healthy Diets from Horticulture Commodities.

Rwanda

KAMANDA GODFREY - Rwanda

Agriconcern International

Email: gkatarekwa@gmail.com

Project Idea: Improving food security through sustainable integrated animal-horticulture systems on small holder farms which is the typical farming system in Rwanda. Under Agriconcern International, we have been evaluating how mixed farming of both animals and Horticulture can improve food and nutrition security to enable Rwanda achieve Vision 2020 as a middle income country. Different households are taken as beneficaries of animals such as goats, cows, rabits, chicken and Pigs. Therefore through support of Rwanda devlopment plan, we have been studying how benefiting households have improved their food and nutrition security. It is very interesting that Horticulture produces high value fruits and vegetables which are highly demanded in city centers. In return households earn income which is used to cater for household needs. Rwanda government is soon rolling out a project to give every household a cow and seedlings of pumpkins, mangoes, oranges among other horticultural produce. Agriconcern is spearheading the implementation of the project. Therefore collaborating with other companies will increase organisation profile and knowledge in Integrated animal and horticulture farming in Rwanda.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Mango production, value addition of pumpkin, mango,developing sustainable marketing systems, developing sustainable fruit and vegetable production systems,capacity building for research, Current post-harvest handling techniques of vegetables, cooling systems of fruits and vegetables, collaborators from USA universities to study microbial interaction of animals on farm and horticulture crops, Development of hybrid seeds of fruits and vegetables in Rwanda, improvement of local varieties of horticultural crops, Packaging skills of fruits and vegetables for high value markets,Pest and disease control of horticultural crops using cheap methods,community development, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, post harvesting and development of new farming practices for rural development in Rwanda.

Nzaramba N. Celestin - Rwanda

AIPD/MPCLtd

Email: nzaramba.c@gmail.com

Project Idea: Farmers cooperatives encouraging and post harvest activities

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Rwanda - East Africa

CYPRIAN BIZIMUNGU - Rwanda

ARBA Ltd

Email: bizicyprian@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Horticulture and Green spaces in Rwanda towns and municipalities development.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: University level and research & development capacity with a long experience in the field.

Mwambari Damien - Rwanda

Center for Information and Social Mobilization(CIMS)

Email: mwambari@cims-rwanda.org

Project Idea: Awareness rising for pyrethrum farmers in northern province in Rwanda

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Advocacy Skills and humanitarian assistance /Virginia Davis UNIVERSITY

Ernest Dukuzumuremyi - Rwanda

D&N Prestige Ltd

Email: ernestinho21@gmail.com

Project Idea: Horticulture production, farmers support with irrigation and post harvest systems, products export and horticulture value chain

Expertise: Market systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Market systems; Post harvest systems and food safety; Sustainable production systems

NTIRENGANYA CELESTIN - Rwanda

GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRY LTD

Email: cntirenganya@gmail.com

Project Idea: AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION ON HORTICULTURE LIKE TOMATO, PEPPER, ONIONS IN RWANDA

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: ADVISORY AND SPONSOR OF OUR PROJECTS

Francois Xavier NSHIMIYIMANA - Rwanda

Inkomoko

Email: xavius005@gmail.com

Project Idea: Horticulture products development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: AGROPROCESSING AND VALUE CHAIN

Akao Grace (Ms) - Rwanda

Institut Des Science Agronomiques Du Rwanda (ISAR)

Email: akaookullo@yahoo.com

Project Idea: "I would like to see a vibrant seed industry come up in Rwanda. The project shall adress the strengthening of key component areas in the formal seed sector. This will include Research and Development in the area of suitable variety development, increased seed production to meet farmer seed demand, enhanced regulatory capacity to ensure seed quality, assurance of an enabling enviornment for the seed industry through advocacy for suitable complementary policies to the seed policy. The project shall identify and recommend to the Government of the Rwanda the following areas of investment in order to realize a vibrant Seed industry
1. Membership to international organizations with the mandate to foster international seed trade
2. Enactment of complementary legislations to stimulate foreign and local investment in the seed industry. The project will not ignore the informal seed sector, but nurture it bearing in mind that the small holder farmer in Rwanda obtain more than 90% of their seed requirements informally."

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: I need someone familiar with the farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Seed Systems in the developing countries in particular. Someone with Seed Technology background, a socio economist or rural sociologist is also suitable. Working with a Scientist from IOWA State University;IOWA Seed Centre would enhance the knowledge I acquired on a short course in Seed Technology from IOWA State University

HABIMANA Innocent - Rwanda

TALSC Ltd ( TWUZUZANYE Agri-Livestock Supplies Ltd)

Email: habinoc@gmail.com

Project Idea: The General Project Idea is the Fruits and Vegetables production, Post-harvest technologies, value addition, Supply chain management and marketing. Especially our project is in the Integrated agro-technology combining pre-and postharvest treatment to improve shelf life of Tree-Tomatoes and Development of appropriate postharvest technology for postharvest handling of Tree-Tomatoes.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: From the collaboration, I will gain modern technologies from both developed and developing countries. Especially the skills needed are development of appropriate cooling technology, development of environmentally friendly postharvest treatments, optimization of storage and transportation conditions, postharvest quality analysis, thermal and non-thermal processing of fruit and vegetable products.Location of the partnership project will be in Gihango Sector, Rutsiro District

BAPFAKURERA ELIAS NELLY - Rwanda

University of Rwanda

Email: eliasnelly@yahoo.fr

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Pacifique Ndayishimiye - Rwanda

Youth Service Organization(YSO)

Email: pacimiye@gmail.com

Project Idea: Rwanda is limited to natural resources, and the main sector to generate revenue is agriculture, which contribute to over 33% of the National GDP and generate over 80% of the total export revenue. According to the comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis (CFSVA) and nutrition survey 2012, the prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under 5 is at 43%. Malnutrition has been identified as an underlying factor in 43% of deaths in children under five (demographic health survey 2010).
Illiteracy, lack of basic knowledge in agriculture and farming, increase the prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under 5 at 43%. Youth Service Organization want to empower young Rwandan farmers through training and educating them the best farming practices in their villages for producing enough food for their families and the community in general to improve villagers nutrition, health and economic conditions.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Community development, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, post harvesting and development of new farming practices for rural development.

South Africa

Hafiz Abdelgadir - South Africa

Agricultural Research Council

Email: abdelgadirh@arc.agric.za

Project Idea: Post harvest Handling of Indigenous Vegetable in Southern African Rural Communities

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Principle investigator in USA

Dharini Sivakumar - South Africa

Tshwane University of Technology

Email: SivakumarD@tut.ac.za

Project Idea: Developing postharvest technologies to commercialize the underutilised traditional leafy vegetables

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia

Tilahun Seyoum Workneh - South Africa

University of KwaZulu Natal

Email: Seyoum@ukzn.ac.za

Project Idea: Integrated agro-technology combining pre-and postharvest treatments to improve shelf life of fruit and vegtables and Development of appropriate postharvest technology for postharvest handling of fruits and vegetables.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Development of appropriate cooling technology, development of environmentally friendly postharvest treatments, optimisation of storage and transportation conditions, postharvest quality analysis, thermal and non-thermal processing of fruit and vegtable products.

tesfay - South Africa

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Email: tesfay@ukzn.ac.za

Project Idea: Postharvest fruit; nutrition

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Samson Z. Tesfay - South Africa

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Email: szeray@gmail.com

Project Idea: plant antioxidants,
bioactive compounds, postharvest technology, agronomy

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: analytical (HPLC, GC, electrophoresis) and instrumentation

Tanzania

Kiddo Mtunda - Tanzania

Agricultural Research Institute- Kibaha

Email: kidomtunda@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Sweet potato commodity value chain

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant breeder/agronomist

ZABRON MBWAGA - Tanzania

BEULA SEED COMPANY AND CONSULTANCY LIMITED

Email: mbwagas@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Production, promotion and dissemination of quality improved varieties seeds to small scale farmers in Tanzania.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Development of hybrid varieties, seed processing and marketing.

Aloyce Masanja - Tanzania

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Email: almasanja@canre.ac.tz

Project Idea: Market Linkages of Horticultural products

Expertise: Market systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post harvesting skills

Lechion Peter kimilike - Tanzania

ELCTSD Njombe University College Project

Email: kipeter@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Project that will involve primary school pupils aged 7-14 to plant at least three grafted avocado trees at their homestead or family plots. The project aims to involve the children in environment conservation, development of enterpreneuership skills by using the sell of avocado fruits build their saving behaviour through opening accounts in savings and credit societies in rural villages or banks. Initially this project aims to focus on 6 schools with a total minimum of 2100 students.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: 4H knowledge, fruit farming, gender issues, capacity building and sustainable development.

Fadhili nswila - Tanzania

ENVIRONMENT FRIEND AGRO PRACTITIONERS ORGANIZATION

Email: efao31@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Establishing Technical Center of Excellence for demonstration of vegetables and fruits technology

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: all people from the world are invited to work with us

INNOCENT BIDEBERI - Tanzania

GLOBAL FAMILY ENLIGHTENMENT ORGANIZATIO(GLOFEO)

Email: innocer2004@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Capacity building in post harvest for food security sustainability.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: CAPACITY BUILDING AND POST HARVEST SYSTEM AND FOOD SAFETY,

JUMA KITUNDU - Tanzania

Horticultural Research & Training Institute

Email: kitundujuma@gmail.com

Project Idea: Minimizing soil-borne diseases and Increase tomato productivity through grafting

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Tomato grafting & Onions production

Armachius James - Tanzania

Horticulture Research and Training Institute

Email: armachiusjames@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Vegetables products development

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest technology, Food processing and food safety/Africa, USA, Asia and Europe

VUMILIA ZIKANKUBA - Tanzania

Horticulture Research and Training Institute

Email: zikankuba@gmail.com

Project Idea: Agriculture and industries

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: MSc.Food science and technology, this includes: postharvest handling, processing, safety and securiry

Don Lotter - Tanzania

Inst. of Development Studies, St. John's University, Dodoma, Tanzania

Email: don@donlotter.net

Project Idea: 1. Development of indigenous African vegetables. My colleague David Msola did his M.S. at Sokoine University of Agriculture on use of indigenous vegetables in southern TZ. We have identified a number of vegetables with potential for development.

2. Capacitate rural access to quality seed via mobile seed sellers. Villagers have responded to trials of this strategy by buying seed at much higher rates than expected. Rural people have trouble getting into town to ag stores. Often the ag stores have outdated or counterfeit seed. This approach would incubate small businesses.

3. Post-harvest management - Much work to be done here in this.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Just need funding to do the research.

lebaraka Nainyeyengeri laizer - Tanzania

maasai pastoralists development organization- lareto

Email: mpopdlareto2005@yahoo.com

Project Idea: horticulture project and capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Gender and Horticultural Development, Capacity Building

Betty Chalamila - Tanzania

Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Email: bettychalamila@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Exploratory Projects- "Study on Constraints and opportunities of gender incooperation in production,processing and marketing of horticultural crops in Tanzania

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Public US College or University

Christopher Leonce Materu - Tanzania

Mikocheni Agriculture Research Institute

Email: christophermater@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Post harvest losses in mango production

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Marketing, post harvest and gender issues (Women groups)

Bertha John Mjawa - Tanzania

ministry of agriculture food security and cooperatives

Email: bmjawa@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Promotion of indigenous vegetables productivity and utilization for health and livelihood in Eastern Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Southern Sudan & Rwanda)

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: production, marketing and nutrition experts in Kenya, southern Sudan & Rwanda.Collaborator(s) from US universities

Elizabeth j Maeda - Tanzania

Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives Departmetn of research and Development

Email: betty.maeda@gmail.com

Project Idea: Seed Production for indigenous vegetables

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Location from USA

Stephano Msuya - Tanzania

Mtandao Wa Vikundi Vya Wakulima Tanzania (MVIWATA Kilimanjaro)

Email: stevemsuya@gmail.com

Project Idea: Strengthening smallholder farmers' groups for improved horticultural practices in the Kilimanjaro region.
MVIWATA in the Kilimanjaro region is seeking a partner/partners who will support its economic empowerment program specifically in the horticultural development to women and youth groups as in Tanzania, large-scale growers dominate commercial horticulture, while the majority of horticultural growers (about 80%) are small-scale farmers, where MVIWATA is organizing them to be in groups to have a common voice and interests in the horticulture. However, virtually all rural households located in arable areas grow fruits and vegetables for home consumption and sale. A wide range of horticultural crops is grown which include bananas, mangoes, tomatoes, french beans, avocado, carrots, kales, cabbages, onions, and local vegetables. These crops are grown under both rain-fed and irrigated conditions but production is inadequate due to seasonality and unreliability of rainfall. Organizing farmers into groups will enhance their participation in the horticulture and accessing training, value addition, post-harvest loss techniques, market linkage and policy change advocating to represent their rights and interests,

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Organizational Capacity Development and Resource (Funding) mobilization strategy (Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania)

Osmund A. Ndomba - Tanzania

Post Entry Plant Quarantine Station

Email: ndombaoa2002@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Phyto-horti interface for export oriented horticulture.

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant protection (Whiteflies/Plant virology

BWENDA ISMAIL BAINGA - Tanzania

Rufiji district council

Email: baingab@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Introduction of improved mangoes to primary schools in order to improve nutrition and income to pupils

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Mango production, funding and location In Rufiji district-Tanzania

Dr Assenga Severine - Tanzania

Sapporo Mobi Vet

Email: sevaassenga@gmail.com

Project Idea: "LEGITIMIZATION OF URBAN AGRICULTURE IN FAST GROWING CITIES OF TANZANIA
The main research questions will be:
a) What are the challenges to long-term sustainability of urban agriculture in cities of Tanzania
b) Are there services that could be provided by the government/private Extension system that would help address these challenges?
c) What are the requirements for legitimize Urban agriculture in cities of Tanzania
Potential areas for intervention will be on:
 Extension services and opportunities relevant to urban and peri urban food production.
 Resource guides; workshops; soil testing
 Technical assistance for mini farming; market planning; safe integration of waste
 Networking and information exchange among and between farmers
 What are the challenges to long-term sustainability of urban agriculture
 To identify, describe and map urban and peri-urban (UPA) producers
 To learn the goals of UPA producers and what they would need in order to achieve and sustain their goals
 To assess and map regional patterns or networks based on geographic location within the cities.
 To identify the role government officials and/or extension activities would be valuable to farmers and livestock keepers.
 Site-related(e.g. land tenure, soil contamination, urbanization, land costs)
 Government-related(e.g. government regulations; lack of political support)
 Procedure-related (e.g. inadequate financial resources; lack of sound business planning)
 Negative perceptions of cultivating food in cities, conflicts with non-farming neighbors"

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Technical know how, Financial, Tools and data collection

Edfin Tongora - Tanzania

Shambani agripreneurs and agronomic consultations

Email: ushaurikilimo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Provide education and trainings on minimizing food waste and food loss by using simple technologies to the least and disadvantaged individuals in Arusha, Moshi, Simanjiro and Babati district who do not afford the modern and expensive means

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: An expert in the value chain in horticulture subsector, gender & horticulture and post harvesting handling

JOAN STEPHEN NANGAWE - Tanzania

SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (SIDO)

Email: joansteven@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Development of post harvest and value addition business center where small and medium farmers/Entrepreneurs will obtain technology, training, information and marketing for the products.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Enabling funding for development and implimentation

JOYCE KINABO - Tanzania

SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE

Email: joyce_kinabo@yahoo.com

Project Idea: AIV

Expertise: Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: NUTRITION ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT

Danstan Mrosso - Tanzania

Sokoine university of Agriculture.

Email: danstanmrosso@gmail.com

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Food safety

Blastus Kahemela - Tanzania

Tanzania assistance for Laws Awareness and Development Organisation(TALADO)

Email: taladoorganisation@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: CAPACITY BUILDING ON CROP PRODUCTION TO SMALL FARMERS IN TANZANIA

Expertise: Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: LAWYER,RESEARCHER AND AGRICULTURALIST

ADAH MDESA MWASHA - Tanzania

TANZANIA ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN LEADERS IN AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT(TAWLAE)

Email: admwasha@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Promoting production of horticultural crops particularly vegetables in paddy growing areas along the coast. Horticultural crops will be a second crop after paddy harvest this is aimed at utilizing the residual moisture for increased farmers' income. Traditionally farmers produce paddy, after crop harvest the land is left idle. Normally the yield of paddy is very low it cannot take them throughout the year resulting to food insecurity.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: -Skills are needed in value additions and development of market systems
- Financial support

Oshingi Shilla - Tanzania

Tropical Pesticides Research Institute/AVRDC/JKUAT

Email: samballu2002@gmail.com

Project Idea: "Vegetable growing is one of the very useful area where small scale farmers get their earning and employment. However, the sector is not without challenges including, low productivity per unit area, poor seed quality, pest and diseases, poor agronomic technologies and market access. Women make a major portion of their time in the sector and upon enabling them and sensitize gender equality, horticulture will have a huge positive impact to reduce hidden hunger and livelihood of the resource poor farmers. Thus, need to bridge the existing knowledge gap through
 proper participatory cultivar development to address seed quality, productivity and climate change
 sustainable vegetable production practices
 Appropriate agronomic practices"

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Entomologist, pathologist, socio-econonmist, postharvest specialist

Ghana

Nicholas Amartey - Ghana

Agripreneurs Africa

Email: namartey@agripreneursafrica.org

Project Idea: Developing and Improving Agricultural Value Chains to Support rural farming communities

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Proposals Development, Finance, Post Harvest systems and food safety.Private Investors from Europe, USA , Australia and Canada

Mumuni Abdul Hafiz - Ghana

Alliance for Agricultural Development Limited

Email: abdulhafizmumuni@gmail.com

Project Idea: Sustainable partnership

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Gender, Development, Advocacy, Capacity Building.

BENJAMIN HORLALI KOFI ATIDJAH - Ghana

An International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC)

Email: benatidjah@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Interested in partnering with interested Principal Investigators who want to carry out their researches in Ghana.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: A Researcher who Qualifies as a Principal Investigator and looking for Collaborator to partner with in Ghana in any of the areas of expertise indicated.

Neeraj Varyani - Ghana

Artemis Life Sciences

Email: neeraj@resources4africa.ae

Project Idea: R&D on Moringa Oliefera and the commercial production process required to increase nutrition quality

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Propagation,Harvesting, Drying/Solar Drying, Processing& Packaging

BOATEN-KODUA AKYEAMPONG - Ghana

BAKABRI AGRO AND AUDIO INITIATIVE

Email: boatenkodua@gmail.com

Project Idea: SUSTAINABLE LARGE SCALE EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOM CULTIVATION AND MARKETING.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: RESEARCH HAS PROVED BEYOND DOUBT THAT, THE ONLY SAVIOUR OF OUR ECOLOGY IS THE MUSHROOM INDUSTRY;

Abubakari Mutari - Ghana

CSIR, Savanna Agricultural Research Institute

Email: amutari@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Postharvest handling of perishable and durable crops, food safety and quality management, novel technologies in quality assessment of fruits and vegetables

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: postharvest research and technology development. Developed and developing countries

Beloved Mensah Dzomeku - Ghana

CSIR-Crops Research Institute

Email: bmdzomeku@gmail.com

Project Idea: climate variability and Postharvest of plantain

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: postharvest, sustainable production, UV effect on plant growth and fruit quality

ATTA - Ghana

CSIR-CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Email: inceaidoo07@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Developing sustainable control measures in controlling postharvest rots of commercial whiteyam varieties. Improving the lives of farmers engaged in root and tuber crops production through plant disease control technologies.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

K Offei Bonsu - Ghana

CSIR-Crops Research Institute

Email: offeikb@gmail.com

Project Idea: safe production, promotion and marketing of vegetables in West Africa

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant breeding, human nutrition, new production systems to combat climate change, safety issues in the area of vegetables and marketing of vegetables

Paul Mintah - Ghana

CSIR-Crops Research Institute

Email: paul.mintah@yahoo.com

Project Idea: 1.Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Citrus in Ghana
2.Nutritent requirement studies in Citrus on different soils in Ghana
3.Suitable crops for citrus based intercropping in Ghana
4.Floral induction for off season Mango production in Ghana
5.Improving genetic diversity of Mango in boosting production and export in Ghana

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Interested in Citrus particularly agronomist or physiologist.
Molecular biologist is also preferred

Michael Kwabena Osei - Ghana

CSIR-Crops Research Institute

Email: oranigh@hotmail.com

Project Idea: 1.Promotion of horticultural export through delivery of superior germplasm and appropriate irrigation technology to smallholder farmers in Ghana
2.Improving Tomato Production in Ghana through Germplasm Collection and Selection for yield, fruit quality and Resistance against Major Tomato Diseases and Pests.

3.Promotion of African indigenous vegetables

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Ability to undertake research in Ghana
Willing to collaborate with the CSIR-Crops Research Institute through Mr.Michael Kwabena Osei (Plant breeder/Molecular biologist)
Willing to include us in all publications arising from the project

Godfried Ohene-Mensah - Ghana

CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI) of Ghana

Email: godthegee@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Research in fungal disease epidemiology, capacity building in plant fungal diseases control, Tree crop production systems, fungal molecular studies, capacity building in Agricultural extension and sustainable production systems.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant pathology, molecular biology, plant disease control.

Frning Okwae Ken - Ghana

CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Ghana

Email: fokwae@daad-alumni.de

Project Idea: Sustainable Integrated Pest Management of vegetables- use of botanicals, Bt, biological control, cultural, host plant resistance, etc.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Entomologist/horticulturist in USA.

Emmanuel Ayipio - Ghana

CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute

Email: emmayipio@gmail.com

Project Idea: Cultivation and promotion of traditional African vegetables, cereal-based vegetable intercropping systems, vegetable production systems

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Mentoring ability, proposal writing, interest in promoting vegetables in Ghana. USA, Germany, Canada

Kwashie Darkudzi - Ghana

Darsfield EarthCare & Farm-Tech Foundation

Email: dvfarms1970@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Darsfoundation’s mission is to provide technical, physical, advisory, managerial and financial means to help create a sustainable and healthy future for Ghanaian farmers, women and youths living in rural communities; for the current and future generations to gain control over their resources.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA, Europe & Africa

Joseph M. Agbeko - Ghana

Fair River International Association for Development

Email: fariadus@gmail.com

Project Idea: "•Help build the capacity of FARIAD and its farmer group network in sustainable agricultural practices and product / value chain development
•Develop strategies for implementation of youth development skills
•Review FARIAD’s Agribusiness activities/programs and provide recommendations
•Train staff and youth in product development, value addition and youth entrepreneurship skills
•Promote the accessibility and participation of women and men, especially young women and young men, in all program activities
•Draft program reports"

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agribusiness, Natural Resources, TVET

Nuamah Twum - Ghana

Farmers Supportive Services and Community Utilities (FASCU)

Email: farmers.services@yahoo.com

Gbadebo Odularu - Ghana

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

Email: godularu@fara-africa.org

Project Idea: Analysis of standards and certification issues along the post-harvest value chain for African indigenous vegetables / fruits.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Partners are needed in selected countries within the sub-Saharan African region

Dr Charles Kwoseh - Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi. Ghana

Email: ckwoseh@hotmail.com

Project Idea: 1.Post harvest losses assessment and management options
2. Benefits of host plant resistance to fungi and nematodes
3. Integrated management of nematode and fungi diseases of arable crops

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: 1.Proposal writing skills
2.Expert in Plant Pathology, Nematology or Crop Protection

Anna Brantuo - Ghana

Mission of Grace Ministries NGO

Email: mrsabrantuo@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Development, Nutrition and Human Health for poor rural women

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: 1. Proposal writing skills, 2. Major in horticulture and willing to partner with us in Ghana

ESTHER AMANO - KRAAH - Ghana

MSc Post Harvest Technology student of K.N.U.S.T., Ghana

Email: ladyesthergh@yahoo.com

Project Idea: To help decrease food insecurity in Northern Region of Ghana by effectively applying post harvest technologies.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post Harvest Technologies and food security

CEWEFIA - Ghana

NGO

Email: cewefia@yahoo.com

Project Idea: educates the target communities on food security managing the environment and poverty eradication

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: funding opportunity

Seth Ayeh - Ghana

Presbyterian University College, Ghana

Email: sethayeh@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Sustainable, ecological and climate smart holistic agriculture among small holder farmers within gender perspectives.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Marketing systems

Llord Titus Amedome - Ghana

Research-Action for Sustainable development (RASUD)

Email: titusllord@gmail.com

Project Idea: Interested in getting a collaborator for the Horticulture Collaborative Research Support project in our country.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Research, capacity building, hands-on activities on african indigenous vegetables farming

Mohammed iddriss - Ghana

Savannah Farmers Association

Email: savanafarmas@gmail.com

Project Idea: To promote tomato production marketing value chain and environmental sustainability.

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agronomist and Agriculture Economist

Abdul-mumin Yussif - Ghana

United Force for Development (UFFD)

Email: abdul-mumin.uffdgh@gmail.com

Project Idea: The strategic plan of the organization is to empower the local people with knowledge to harness their potential in order to raise their living standards and to make them healthy and environmentally conscious.
The concept of food and nutritional security refers to the ability of all people at all times to have physical and income access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active healthy life. It requires food be available,enough,stable and accessible without which inevitably leads to malnourishment that hinders individual performance. Food and nutrition insecurity is as a result of farmer’s lack of knowledge on effective agricultural techniques and ability to meet costs of necessary seeds and equipments because of their limited income among other reasons.
The effects exhibit themselves in hunger which is the extreme expression of poverty,due to small scale farmers’ inability to produce enough food for their own consumption and on sustain their communities.For that reason, any enhancement of the food security calls for farmers’ sensitization and
encouragement to adopt strategic methods that will not only cater for food and nutritional security but also income at household level and sound management of the environment.
The organization’s commitment to making Sagnarigu District a role model in embracing
sustainable farming practices in order to improve livelihoods and alleviate poverty serves as the motivation to initiating participatory practices in promoting sustainable
development initiatives among the resource poor rural community members.
Therefore,UFFD-Ghana takes up the challenge of generating awareness on the dangers of conventional agriculture, training on organic farming as an alternative method and follow ups to ensure proper implementation and sharing information for sustainability.
The target beneficiaries are the small scale holders who are most affected by the prohibitive cost of agricultural production and the escalating land degradation through contamination by toxic inputs and loss of fertility through erosion. The project therefore is aimed at enhancing food security and farmer’s participation in environmental conservation for sustainable production during our lifetime and for the future generations.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Modern Technologies,New Tools and information transfer to farmers.Any part of the globe

GUSTAV KOMLA MAHUNU - Ghana

University for Development Studies

Email: gkmgh@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Sustainable Horticultural development

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Collaboration in Research and Technology transfer in the following areas;
1. sustainable value chain development in indigenous fruit and vegetable production
2. Vegetable-animal (livestock/poultry) integration
3.Gender Equality Mainstreaming in Horticulture

Derrick Slonimpah - Ghana

University For Development Studies(UDS) Horticultural Department

Email: derrickslo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Categorizing Vegetable Production Systems in Tamale.
1. To determine the production systems in both drying and raining seasons. 2. To categorise vegetables into the systems of productions.

Expertise: Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Tamale

Bangladesh

Dr. Shamim Ahmed Khan - Bangladesh

Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University

Email: samkuk_bd@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Developing a sustainable postharvest technology for horticultural commodities in South-west Bangladesh, a climate-vulnerable coastal zone.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Production of cash crops suitable for saline prone areas, Capacity building for farmers living in climate resilient areas, Postharvest Technology

Ms. Rokeya Begum Shafali - Bangladesh

AID-COMILLA (National NGO, Bangladesh)

Email: aidshafali@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Post Harvest-Impediments to Adoption and Benefits of Improved Practice

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post harvest technology, USA

Hasan M. Abdullah - Bangladesh

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University

Email: hasan.abdullah@bsmrau.edu.bd

Project Idea: Multi-storied/ fruit tree based agroforestry system for better livelihood

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Student and faculty; collaborative research; food security; income generation

Monirul Islam - Bangladesh

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute

Email: monirbdku@gmail.com

Project Idea: Intervention of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP) for safe and quality crop production including postharvest loss management.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: GAP and Postharvest Specialist in the field of Horticulture; food safety; Soil science and crop nutrition; Crop Protection, Functional foods; USA, Europe, Bangladesh, Nepal and India

Md Kamrul Hassan - Bangladesh

Bangladesh Agricultural University

Email: mk_hassan2003@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Nutrition, Food Quality and Safety

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest management of fruits and vegetables; nutrition; food safety
Location: USA/Japan

AMAM SIDDIKI - Bangladesh

Chittagong Veterinary University

Email: zsiddiki@gmail.com

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Mohammad Gulzarul Aziz - Bangladesh

Department of Food Technology and Rural Industries, Bangladesh Agricultural University

Email: aziz_ftri@bau.edu.bd

Project Idea: Healthy Products Innovation Lab

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA, Agro-processing

Prof. Dr. M. Rahim - Bangladesh

Department of Horticulture, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh

Email: marahim1956@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Gender and Horticultural Production, germplasm conservation, nutrition and poverty reduction and postharvest systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Developed and developing countries

Dr. Md. Azizur Rahman - Bangladesh

Depth. Agriculture Extension, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh

Email: azizdae@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Capacity building of màngo farmers ensuring Value chain & food safety in bangladesh.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Ensuring expertise on food safety. Location- Rajshahi & Chapainawabgang

S.M.KHORSHED ALAM - Bangladesh

Enterprise Humanity Ltd

Email: enterprise.social14@gmail.com

Project Idea: Farmer-Consumer Digital Network (Inclusive Agricultural Value-chain)

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: 1. Skill for motivating farmers for safe & quality produce. 2. Fund arrangement.

Shamim Khan - Bangladesh

GREEN AGRO ENTERPRISE

Email: theshamim2002@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Biological agriculture practice for food safety and its sustainable marketing system development.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Technical and analytical skill on organic farming production and quality control. Location Jessore,Bangladesh.

Elizabeth Snow - Bangladesh

iDE

Email: esnow@ideorg.org

Project Idea: iDE-Bangladesh is interested in partnering on vegetable seed systems that improving access of quality seed to smallholders, preferably in the Rangpur Region.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: iDE-Bangaldesh is looking for PIs with whom to collaborate in Bangladesh.

Kira Galbraith - Bangladesh

International Development Enterprises

Email: kira@ide-bangladesh.org

Project Idea: -scale up project that would focus on vegetable seed systems and post-harvest practices in the Rangpur Region

-pilot project on the adaptability and accessibility of sweet potato production in the Rangpur Region

Both project ideas would address Feed the Future goals of poverty alleviation and increased food security.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: IDE is looking for an American public university to lead the call.

Kumaresh C Biswas - Bangladesh

Liberty (Lives beyond Poverty)

Email: liberty_ngo@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Study on Training & Technology Transfer to resource poor Horticultural Farmers.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Modern Technologies, New Tools and information to mitigate low production due to decrease of soil fertility and productivity.

PALASH - Bangladesh

PRIDE (People's Resources In Developmental Enterprise)

Email: pride_org@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Reducing post harvest loss and sustainable market development

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Dr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad - Bangladesh

Rajshahi University, Bangladesh

Email: azad.adrinwa@gmail.com

Project Idea: Greenhouse and field crop/vegetable cultivation with management, Irrigation water treatment, Controlled environment & Hydroponics cultivation,
Plant nutrition.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA/Japan/Bangladesh

Prof. Dr. AFM Jamal Uddin - Bangladesh

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Email: jamal4@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Sustainable Horticultural crop production, Protected cultivation, Safe food, Environment

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Dr. MD ANOWAR HOSSAIN - Bangladesh

UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHSHI

Email: mahossain95@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Fruits and vegetable Crop improvement (Development of disease resistant plants) through molecular biology, mutation breeding and genetics approach.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Genomics tools such as Next generation sequencing, RNA seq, CRISPR-Cas9, Tilling etc.
Location: USA,UK, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE

David Sikder - Bangladesh

World Harvest Society of Bangladesh

Email: Worldharvest_society@yahoo.com

Project Idea: World Harvest Society of Bangladesh is interested in partnering on vegetable seed systems that improving access of quality seed to smallholders, in the Bandarban tribal area and also Gopalgonj

Expertise: Market systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Market system, Nitration and human health.

Congo - Republic of the Congo

Claude Alex Ndambi Moutandi - Congo - Republic of the Congo

Aide aux Femmes et Enfants.

Email: calexnda@gmail.com

Project Idea: We work to protect our environment. So, we need a partnership. We are new.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Pointe Noire, Congo Brazzaville in Africa.

Ethiopia

Mebrahtu Gebremariam - Ethiopia

Aksum university, Shire Campus, Ethiopia

Email: mebre2003hu@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing the production and diversification of horticultural crops at smallholder producer of Ethiopia; Enhancing proper postharvest management of horticultural produce through training and demonstration at smallholder level

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Expertise in horticulture related to production and postharvest management of horticultural crops. Prior location to be in Ethiopia, if not found, I can also be a partner with those found in other locations

Mitiku Mihiret - Ethiopia

Ambo university

Email: mtkumhrt21@gmail.com

Project Idea: Minimizing post harvest losses in Africa

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Takele Teshome - Ethiopia

BLMM Integrated Agricultural Development PLC

Email: takele_11@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Integrating horticulture and Animal production system

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Serving as principal investigator from USA, experience in Horticultural production and its linkage with Livestock production

Sintayehu Musie - Ethiopia

Debre Markos University

Email: Sintayehu_Musie@dmu.edu.et

Project Idea: Human nutrition, Potato value chain, Post-harvest management of fruits & vegetables

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Geremew Bultosa - Ethiopia

Department of Food Science and Postharvest Technology, Haramaya University, Ethiopia

Email: Bultosageremew@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Postharvest loss reductions, value addition and human nutrition improvements through education

Expertise: Market systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Food Science (Associate Professor)

bazezew gizie - Ethiopia

dilla university

Email: www.baze@gmail.com

Project Idea: Animal nutrition related

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: nutritionist, SAS, good at basic computer skill

Mohammed Kasso - Ethiopia

Dire Dawa University

Email: mohammedkasso078@gmail.com

Project Idea: Horticultural crops production and post-harvest loss management

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Researcher and University lecturer

Solomon Abate - Ethiopia

Ethiopian Agricultural Research Center, Wondogenet Research Center

Email: solomon.abt@gmail.com

Project Idea: Sustainable use of aromatic and medicinal herbs through development of different (pre/ post harvest) products and value chain development

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Mohammed Yesuf (Dr.) - Ethiopia

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

Email: mohanarc@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Postharvest handling of horticultural products and production, utilization and marketing of indigenous vegetables.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Researcher in the agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

Aklilu Nigussie - Ethiopia

Ethiopian Institutes of Agricultural Research

Email: aklil2002@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Small scale agricultural technologies for wealth creation in with irrigated and rain fed for sustainable development.

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agricultural research and development

Abrhame Endrias Butta - Ethiopia

Green Agro Solution PLC

Email: abrhameendrias@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Green Agro Solution PLC promotes One Stop Farming Solution to small holder farmers in Ethiopia through providing mechanization service, farm inputs, farm credit service and financial literacy in one center to improve productivity and manage post harvesting loss. Our center is located in Sagure town of Oromiya Region where potato and garlic are in huge potential. However, small holder farmers are exposed to 25 to 30% yield loss due to inappropriate handling of the farm and harvesting technique. Our center aims to work with international partners to train small holder farmers and equipped them with the best farming technique that can minimize post harvesting loss and keeps their food safe.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skills we are looking from partner are:- Best techniques to engage private business with small holder farmer - Best techniques to grow and harvest horticulture - Effective techniques to preserve Horticultures after harvest - Horticulture processing on small holder level

Meseret Tesema Terfa - Ethiopia

Hawassa University

Email: mesitesema@gmail.com

Project Idea: Integrated Animal and Horticulture Systems for Climate Smart Agriculture

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Enabling funding for development and implementation; Horticulture production system;

Sintayehu Yigrem - Ethiopia

Hawassa University

Email: y_sintayehu@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Dairy Science and technology, mixed crop livestock systems, Food and nutrition security, Dairy value chain development

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: As livestock systems expert, particularity dairy cattle production and products quality and safety I am interested to work to further look it the other dimensions of integral farming, such as horticulture and other crops.

Galfato Gabiso - Ethiopia

Hawassa Univesity

Email: galfatogabiso@gmail.com

Project Idea: Urban population grown in faster rate than ever in Ethiopia today. Migration to city to search a job will be excavated the situation badly. Farmers in Periphery to city become very very poor. Food insecurity is the major problem. His/Her land was sold for better off and they have small plot of land. Lifestyle of urban people become more consuming vegetable and Fruit was seen as opportunity to grown with in low cost pre urban vegetable and fruits. The availability of land, irrigation water, labor and good market nearby are the opportunity to get high profit from crops. We are seen last two year there is big opportunity for pre urban farming community to bring medium income farmers.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Require skill - Agricultural experts including Horticulturalist, Soil Scientist, Environmentalist, Entomologist, pathologist and Irritation agronomist, Socioeconomic
Location -Hawassa City Administration and Dale woreda in Sidama Zone SNNPRS.

Temesgen Menamo - Ethiopia

Jimma University

Email: temesgen2008@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Grafting of solanaceous species for dual production system

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Grafting of vegetables or fruit crops.

Muche, Bizuayehu - Ethiopia

Jimma University / Dalhousie University

Email: bz645969@dal.ca

Project Idea: 1. Post-harvest loss prevention or reduction
- Food Processing
- Value addition
- Education
- post-harvest treatment and technologies
- Research
2. Gender mainstreaming
-Participatory research and innovation
- Nutrition
- Food safety
- Food processing and preservation
- Knowledge and technology transfer
- Networking

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Mesfin Kebede Gessese - Ethiopia

Ministry of Agriculture

Email: mesfin04@yahoo.com

Project Idea: establishment of small scale farmers seed enterprise in Arabica coffee

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: seed systems development, plant breeder and molecular biologist
public university professor in USA

Amberber Wasihun - Ethiopia

Mizan Tefere Agriculture College

Email: anbxwas@gmail.com

Project Idea: Development of pineapple(Improved Variety) to small holder farmers living in 3 woredas

Expertise: Market systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Animal Science who can incorporate animal husbandry with pineapple development and living in USA University

Taye Buke - Ethiopia

Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia

Email: tayebuke21@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing or improving horticultural Production, Postharvest handling and management with loss reduction, value chain development and market development up to small holder farmers in participator and with demonstration.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticulture sector development in any aspects in Ethiopia

Mekbib Hilegebrile Seife - Ethiopia

World Food Preservation Center

Email: mekittimess@yahoo.com

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Any interested partners that are found in USA, Europe, Australia and have postharvest, food science, nutrition and related skills eager to work on food preservation!

Somalia

Hassan Rabiic - Somalia

Amoud University

Email: rabiic23@hotmail.com

Project Idea: agricultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: we have faculty of agriculture and environment

Uganda

ALLAN JOHN KAGGWA - Uganda

ANA INVESTMENTS (U) LIMITED

Email: kaggwaallan@gmail.com

Project Idea: To provide responsive, safe and trusted water, solar, irrigation and agriculture solutions to communities with the highest quality, most dependable and cost-effective engineering designs of Energy, Agribusiness and water.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Water, Irrigation, Solar and Agriculture solutions like Solar water pumping, irrigation water pumping, water pump supplies and installations, drip lines for horticulture and other uses, Sprinklers, Agriculture-inputs, Nursery bed sizing, Green houses and many more to propel the agriculture sector.

oketcho yoronimo - Uganda

Busitema University

Email: oketchoyoronimo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Predicting the impact of climate change on the irrigation water demand of tomatoes

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: autonomy and environment sciences

PATRICK WASSWA - Uganda

COMMUNITY HEALTH & LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT (CHILD)

Email: maleka37@gmail.com

Project Idea: STARTING A FOOD SECURITY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR PASTORAL COMMUNITIES OF NAKASEKE DISTRICT

Expertise: Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: FOOD SECURITY EXPERTISE, USA

Martin - Uganda

EcoVillage Uganda

Email: martinmub@yahoo.com

Project Idea: EcoVillage is staffed by people who care passionately about fighting poverty, preserving traditional culture, protecting the environment, and instilling respect for all life in villages.

They are dedicated to empowering previously disadvantaged individuals in generating unlimited possibilities for themselves and their communities and making a difference in the lives of all Ugandans.

Their charitable programs are non-aligned politically and religiously and are open to volunteers from all countries.

In Uganda, more than anywhere the world, the wellbeing of people strongly depends on natural resources

Our Objectives

We work using the principles of Permaculture i.e. conserving resources; using volunteers to import skills; respecting people and the planet; sharing information; and using non-polluting natural energy systems wherever possible and eliminating waste.

EcoVillage Uganda also has food security, agro biodiversity conservation and climate change as well as Plant tree Nursery Development Project,Production of organic Manure to Supplement Inorganic Fertizers and Enhance Growth and Crop Yields in Uganda

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Reinforcement of the capacities and to support our programs
Finances and Partnership
-Proposal writing skills -Experience Sustainable -Production Systems

NAKAKANDE JOSEPHINE - Uganda

Environmental Conservation and Agricultural Enhancement Uganda

Email: jnakakande@gmail.com

Project Idea: Increasing Small Scale Rural Maize producers Revenue by Promoting maize Value addition and Collective Marketing in Hoima district Western Uganda.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Resource mobilization, value addition and marketing and

KAJURA CHARLES - Uganda

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND AGRICULTURE ENHANCEMENT UGANDA (Eco-Agric Uganda)

Email: ecoagricuganda@gmail.com

Project Idea: Nutritional and Economic Enhancement of East African Diets Using Orange-Fleshed/ purple fleshed Sweetpotato Products.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: POST HARVEST and food safety, nutrition and human health plus sustainable production systems

MALACHI TUMUSIIME - Uganda

ESTEEM

Email: tmalachi2000@gmail.com

Project Idea: Promoting the production of improved mangoes to make it a major income earner and improving environmental cover in the dry areas of South Western Uganda

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Production of mangoes, value addition to mango products, marketing mango products

ASIIMWE JOSEPH MAGAMBO - Uganda

FARM SOLUTIONS AFRICA

Email: joseph@farmsolutionsafrica.com

Project Idea: Acceleration of Intensive horticulture production through drip irrigation and Green houses

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Extensive technical skills in Irrigation technologies and agronomy

Nkwatsibwe Adams - Uganda

Food Talk Uganda

Email: nkwatsibweadams@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Solar drier construction training and facilitation in Uganda

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Uganda

Mukhobeh Moses Khaukha - Uganda

Hands of Action Uganda

Email: handsofaction@gmail.com

Project Idea: I welcome researchers to conduct research on organic vegetable and fruit farm. Can be related to pest and disease control; soil management fertility agronomy in Uganda

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticulture expertise, effective solutions for organic horticulture in Uganda.

Minani Leodegard - Uganda

Innovate Africa

Email: mileodegard@yahoo.ca

Project Idea: Household cash crop garden, Food post harvest handling

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Value chain management

Wanakwakwa Job - Uganda

LOG`EL Project

Email: wanakwakwajob@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing Collaboration for value-addition in horticultural products to Benefit Humanity

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Value-addition for horticultural and related products, Marketing, networking and resource mobilization.

Jimmy Delyon - Uganda

Mashamba Yetu

Email: mashamba.yetu@gmail.com

Project Idea: Horticulture production for market inclusion for women and youth. With a strategic posture for export markets.

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Senior research partner. A university in the United States to lead in research components of project implementation.

Gabriel Ddamulira - Uganda

National Agricultural Research Organisation

Email: ddamuliragab@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Improvement of tomato and onion production for improved nutrition and income among smallholder farmers

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: breeding, agronomy and technical backstopping

Mayamba Alex - Uganda

National Agriculture Research Laboratories, Kawanda Uganda

Email: alexmayamba@gmail.com

Project Idea: Horticulture development, sustainable crop production and improvement of rural and urban livelihood through improved crop production. Environmental conservation through agroforestry, fruit tree production and community attitude.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Sustainable crop production, pest and disease management, community development, marketing sytemes for agricultural produce, seed systems

Samukoya Clara - Uganda

National Crops Resources Research Institute, NaCRRI

Email: samukoyaclara@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Collection, Characterization and evaluation of African Indigenous Vegetables typical to Uganda but have potential to be utilized world wide.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Access to infrastructure, funding.

Aggrey Ntakimanye - Uganda

National Forestry Resources Research Institute

Email: aggreynta@gmail.com

Project Idea: SOCIO-CULTURAL EVALUATION OF MORUS ALBA AND CALLIANDRA CARLOTHYRTHUS FORAGE FOR MILK PRODUCTION

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Socio-Anthropology
US University

Nyongesa Geoffrey - Uganda

Nourish Bugiri

Email: nourishbugiri@gmail.com

Project Idea: Vegetable and fruit growing

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Uganda

HAKIM WANUME KIBEDI - Uganda

Rural Aids Orphans and Mothers Support Organisation

Email: hakimwanume@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Enhancing food security through agriculture and nutrition development

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Training skills and networking

Paul bamu - Uganda

save the marginalized

Email: paul.bamu@gmail.com

Project Idea: Fruits preservation and moisture retardation

Expertise: Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: This project call for individual interested in research with good knowledge of moisture content. It calls for students interested in understand Pauline innovations. It's open for research advancement. Good skills in training women and youth to enterprise fruits to crest income. Save the marginalized used holistic approach in training women through hands on. We call for partners who are ready to developers hot culture from substances to commercial productions. STM UGANDA works with good skills of accountability and integrity. We there fore call for collaboration of institutions and organization which cherish accountability. Good analytical skills and cooperation to reduce hunger and food shortage is called for

ANGURIA MICHAEL - Uganda

SHINE AFRICA MINISTRIES

Email: shineafricaministries@yahoo.com

Project Idea: This project will develop a new type of regional agricultural research and development network based on market development, Value Added Agro-Enterprise Technologies to Increase Income, Sustainable Food Security, Availability and Strength of Seed Chain in Teso Sub-Region, Eastern Uganda. The project will identify market opportunities for existing value added products, and optimize appropriate postharvest technologies to enhance the income generating capacity of small and medium Scope entrepreneurs from the private sector and promote products to improve nutrition and will create opportunities that provide incomes to women farmer groups and Creation of skilled and unskilled jobs for women and men . Shine Africa Ministries will initially focus on developing value added, processed products, from perishable crops, including cassava, sweet potato and banana, leading onto the less researched cereals, including sorghum and millet and beans.

The project will undertake new research and development approaches that are required to overcome the most basic constraints to the farming and social systems in this region, i.e. lack of demand for agricultural produce and poverty, Lack of improved varieties, Poor post-harvest management/Quality Control, Lack of a market oriented approach to research, Limited product range to stimulate production in the region, Lack of Crop Processing Technologies, Escalating food demands in the Region, Poor co-ordination in research and delivery, Lack of business enterprise in technology delivery pathways, and Limited use of recommended technologies/inputs.

To overcome these challenges, SAM will use a combination of market analysis and innovative technologies, working towards a sustainable system for increased food production, based on demand driven market opportunities and address poverty alleviation through increased income and job creation,
• High-value niche markets leading to Variety development and seed production systems, multiplication and dissemination of high yielding varieties of horticultural crops and seeds

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Shine Africa Ministries is seeking to work with partners from the developed and developing countries especially Research Scientists or public university professors based in USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.

The partners should be willing and interested to work on vegetable seed systems that improve access of quality seed to smallholders, Horticulture technology and Training Farmers; Effective Knowledge Transfer, Postharvest management of fruits and vegetables; nutrition; food safety market oriented training, including market analysis, agri-business skills development and training in adaptive research methods to facilitate the shift towards market driven research and Modern Technologies.

We need partners who can come to visit us and partner with us, offer Financial support for the new project and have the ability to undertake research to be able to promote seed systems development, and plant breeding technologies.
Shine Africa Ministries is also interested in partnering with interested Principal Investigators who want to carry out their researches in Uganda.

Thank you very much we are very willing and committed to working with any institution, or individual from any part of the world.

God bless you all as you come and partner with Shine Africa Ministries.

Anguria Michael

Richard Bbaale - Uganda

Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable For Better Health Education and Nutrition in Uganda (SOVHEN UGANDA)

Email: sovhenprograms@gmail.com

Project Idea: Market Linkages Initiative with four major results including: * Expanded and strengthened Bulking Systems in target locations
* Enhanced capacity of smallholder farmers to integrate into Bulking system
* Sustained Bulking system operations in relevant market institutions
* Institutional platforms that disseminate lessons learned and best practices

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: * Expanded and strengthened Bulking Systems in target locations
* Enhanced capacity of smallholder farmers to integrate into Bulking system
* Sustained Bulking system operations in relevant market institutions
* Institutional platforms that disseminate lessons learned and best practices

Stephen Ekoom - Uganda

The Farmers Guide Uganda

Email: ekoomsteve09@gmail.com

Project Idea: Project idea: Value Addition of fruits and vegetables

Expertise: Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Organic farming skills and solar dryer making skills

Peter Vivian - Uganda

TKT

Email: acire.peter@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Unlocking the poverty tie through sustainable horticultural production.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Proposal development. Funding support. Market linkages. Water for production. Partners from USA, UK, Netherland, Belgium and Australia are welcome.

Mathius Lukwago - Uganda

Trees For The Future

Email: mathius@treesforthefuture.org

Project Idea: To promote Environment conservation through sustainable land use.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Environment conservation, Sustainable rural development.

Bukenya Godfrey - Uganda

Venus Foods Ltd

Email: bukenyagoddie@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing horticultural value chain and market development for small holder farmers

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: market systems, agribusiness Development

Waliwulya Martins - Uganda

Village Enterprises (VEFO-Uganda)

Email: officevefo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enabling the promotion of trees outside forest on smallholder farm land, as an adaptation strategy to control climate change and designing policy alternatives

Expertise: Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agroforestry and range management visa vis rural development initiatives

Wabalanda Wilson - Uganda

Village Enterprises Foundation Organisation (VEFO)

Email: infovefo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Vegetable production, Post harvest and value chain marketing

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: IPM and marketing

Benard Bamwenda - Uganda

Women Initiatives for Rural Development (WIRDO)

Email: info@womenruralinitiatives.org

Project Idea: Food security and post-harvests handling in the value chain production

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Ability and skills to work in the rural setting, USA and Technical assistance ASSISTANCE

Mozambique

Paulo Weng - Mozambique

APDCOMA

Email: apdcoma@tdm.co.mz

Project Idea: Food Security and Gender Equity

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are looking someone with high experience in the demands of Horticulture CRSP, as well as techniques on Food Security and Gender Equity in the Agriculture Production. we want to implement a food security project with purpose of improving the quality life of local communities.

Enoque Albino Manhique - Mozambique

APDCOMA-Association for Community Development and Environment

Email: manhiqueenoque@yahoo.com.br

Project Idea: Good food for Good health

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agro-processing

Afonso Pedro Chibalo - Mozambique

SNV Mozambique

Email: apedrochibalo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Empower smallholders horticulture production market oriented

Expertise: Market systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Training orientation

Taiwan

Tesfaye Beshah - Taiwan

AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center

Email: tesfaye.beshah@worldveg.org

Project Idea: Strengthening Vegetable Research Capacity in Developing Countries through Graduate Research Programme and Training of Research Technicians

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Country needs for postgraduate researchers and qualified technicians,
Location, global

Niger

Sanjeet Kumar - Niger

AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center

Email: sanjeet.kumar@worldveg.org

Project Idea: Staple Cereals and Vegetable based cropping system; Genetic Improvemnet of Okra for SSA and Asia

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

HASSANE BISSALA Yahaya - Niger

INOVATECH

Email: hbissala@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: The plant growth booster is an innovative device, which optimizes quantities of water and nutrients and also physicochemical conditions for the benefit of young plants and accelerates the growing up to 2 times. I seek for Monitor, collaborator.

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Forestry Company or Research Institutes throughout the word

Barbados

Keeley Holder - Barbados

Barbados Society of Technologists In Agriculture

Email: keeleykins@gmail.com

Project Idea: Solar Drying of Onions; Cost Effective Storage and Post-Harvest Handling for Small Farmers (< 10 HA)

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA preferably from a warm climate; Postharvest Management; Training Farmers; Effective Knowledge Transfer

Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Grégoire Mutshail Mutomb Kangaji - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo

bdl agriculture and high college of agriculture and teachers (ISP Lubumbashi)

Email: bdlagriculture@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: way to grower horticulture in or country there is no small entreprise in the field ,no reseach and no horticulture support in the country

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: partner we can come to visit us and speaks english or french

Theodore MUNYULI - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Department of agriculture, biology and environment, National center for Research in Natural sciences, CRSN-Lwiro,D.S.Bukavu, Kivu, eastern DRCongo

Email: tmunyuli@gmail.com

Project Idea: Linkage horticulture, food, nutrition, health outcomes

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA, Europe, ASia

Mucuranyana Justin - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Environment Conservation Institute

Email: info@enconi.org

Project Idea: Mitigating forest clearing and drainage for agriculture

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We want to increase the skills in water security solution, reducing natural and man-made disasters, reduce flood risk and drought when collaboration with Partner in USA.

LWANGO Z. KASOLE ZAZA - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo

GAARK UPA Farmer's professional Organisation

Email: campsag@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Banana value-chain development in Kabare Territory :
- Production of free viruse and bacterial plantlet for renewal plantation
- Sustainable production development
- Development of market for high quality and labelled ecological and sustianable products.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Thermotherapy, Tissue culture and rapid multiplication of banana plantlet

Grégoire Mutshail - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo

HUP FAO

Email: mutshaila10@hotmail.fr

Project Idea: Urban and peri urban horticulture

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: partner

Zambia

Bill Kapinga - Zambia

Beautiful Gate Zambia

Email: beautifulgatezm@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Sustainable agriculture for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Expertise in animal husbandry and general agriculture

WALUBITA SIFUNISO - Zambia

Christian Relief and Development Foundation-CRDF

Email: crdfou@gmail.com

Project Idea: Improving agricultural production systems for rural based households in order to improve food security, income security and nutritional security at household level through capacity building. adoption of appropriate technologies and diversification.

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Value chain processes, aquaculture, resource mobilisation and advocacy form any part of the world.

Dennis Milanzi - Zambia

Kachere Development Programme

Email: veryrevdennis@gmail.com

Project Idea: To build the capacity of women self-help groups in horticulture, value chains addition and sustainable agriculture through conservation agriculture

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: To have someone who can strengthen the capacity development and resource mobilisation skills for sustainability

Nicholas Kaponda - Zambia

Kids of God - Zambia

Email: nicholaskaponda@gmail.com

Project Idea: Entrepreneurship Skills Training

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticulture, Fish farming, Piggery and or poultry

Wilfred Miga - Zambia

pelum association

Email: migauj@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Improving small-scale farmers’ livelihoods through increased market access for the rice sub-sector in Zambia

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: market mapping, stakeholder empowerment, value chain strengthening, market systems development. Post harvest technologies and Bio gas development

Njekwa Mukamba - Zambia

RuralNet Associates Limited

Email: njekwa.mukamba@gmail.com

Project Idea: African Indigenous Vegetables-Nutritional value and Enhanced Supply Chain and Consumer Acceptance

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Production or Post Harvest or marketing or Nutrition Specialising firm based in the United States

John T. Njovu - Zambia

University of Lusaka

Email: njovujt@gmail.com

Project Idea: Local vegetables use in the nutrition for the health improvement of HIV_AIDS patients

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Nutrition and human health expertise

United States

Joyce Lockard - United States

Beaverton Rotary Club, Beaverton OR

Email: lockard.jmp@gmail.com

Project Idea: Working on a project to help women smallholders in the Gulu area of Uganda. Currently interested in developing post-harvest processing in conjunction with local CBO. Need best designs for solar dryers for vegetables/fruits and for grain. Plan for oil seed pressing, cassava and sweet potato processing and other post-harvest processes at the appropriate technology level. Electricity not available.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Training in building solar dryers for use in villages that have no vehicle roads for quick marketing of perishable produce.
Location in nine villages in Gulu and Omuru districts in Uganda.

Samuel Essah - United States

Colorado State University

Email: sessah@lamar.colostate.edu

Project Idea: Potato production for increased tuber yield and quality in subsaharan Africa.
The potato seed system
Nutrient and cultural management for increased potato tuber yield and quality

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Potato production.
Potato seed system

Chris Wien - United States

Cornell University

Email: hcw2@cornell.edu

Project Idea: We offer expertise in horticultural seed systems, and are interested in linking with partners in Sub-Saharan Africa that would like to work with us to develop a Hort-CRSP proposal

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We would like to partner with Sub-Saharan African universities and/or experiment stations and/or private seed companies interested in increasing the availability of improved vegetable seeds for their countries

Ganpati B. Jagdale - United States

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia

Email: gbjagdal@uga.edu

Project Idea: Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes and Insect pests

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Nematode Diagnosis and/ India, Central America

Buddhi Lamsal - United States

Iowa State University

Email: lamsal@iastate.edu

Project Idea: Value added processing of fruits and vegetables, coproduct utilization as fermentation feedstock, antioxidant from grape pomace

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Rose Atieno Ogutu - United States

Lincoln University of Missouri

Email: OgutuR@lincolnu.edu

Project Idea: Sustainable Production Systems in horticulture

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: A P.I who needs some one to work with as a postdoc in the project

Dipesh K C - United States

LSU AgCenter

Email: dkc@agcenter.lsu.edu

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Gbadebo Odularu - United States

Marymount University

Email: odularu@comcast.net

Project Idea: Overcoming institutional bottlenecks, post harvest losses along the horticultural value chain at domestic, national, regional, continental and global levels.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Collaborative and innovative efforts in proposal or concept note development, project / program implementation and management all over the world.

William B. Evans (Bill) - United States

Mississippi State University

Email: wbe1@ra.msstate.edu

Project Idea: working with Ghana-based partners and others to develop small holder vegetable crop systems

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Welcoming other US, Ghana, neighbor FTF, and other partners.
Seeking to strengthen team abilities in community building/sociology/gender equity, extension, African entomology/pathology, others

Mengmeng Gu - United States

Mississippi State University

Email: mgu@pss.msstate.edu

Project Idea: Season extension production of specialty crops; organic fertilizer and amendments; nutrient management; postharvest quality of specialty crops

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Experience in outreach; Experience in organizing international trip; Fluent in Chinese;

Shabeg Briar - United States

Montana State University

Email: briarss1@gmail.com

Project Idea: Nematode management

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agronomy, Nematology and or plant Pathology

Barry Jacobsen - United States

Montana State University

Email: uplbj@montana.edu

Project Idea: orange- fleshed sweet potato: cultivar evaluation, identification of production, storage and market constraints, building capacity for pathogen-free seed systems and reduced post harvest losses.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Africa- orange fleshed sweet potato

Ram N Acharya - United States

New Mexico State University

Email: acharyar@nmsu.edu

Project Idea: Food marketing, food security, and nutrition issues related to developing countries

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Southeast Asia and Africa

Lina Quesada - United States

North Carolina State University

Email: lmquesad@ncsu.edu

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Paul Brown - United States

Purdue University

Email: pb@purdue.edu

Project Idea: Integrated aquaponics systems for both rural and urban applications and linking food production with waste management.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Sociological, economics. Anywhere

Ahmed Ashmawi - United States

Siwa Oasis,Egypt

Email: fishworld@cox.net

Project Idea: TO DEVELOP FARMS IN SIWA oasis, Egypt. Famous for best organic Dates &Olives farms

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: SUSTAIN THE OASIS, HELP FARMER TO SAVE WATER FOR IRRAGATION. AGROTOURSIM PROJECTS

Matthew W. Blair - United States

Tennessee State University

Email: mblair@tnstate.edu

Project Idea: vegetable cowpea

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: plant breeders and community development work

Vijay Joshi - United States

Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Email: vijay.joshi@tamu.edu

Project Idea: Nutritional Enhancement: Understanding the regulation of biochemical pathways involved in the production of nutraceutical compounds in vegetable and fruit crops.
Enhancing Plant Nutrient Use Efficiency: To improve nitrogen sensing, transport and assimilation in plants and (b) to explore the metabolic networks regulating nitrogen uptake and utilization

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: - Improvement of vegetable crops using advanced tools in breeding, genomics and phenomics
- Organic production of vegetables
- Soil microbiome, metagenomics and population dynamics

Xinwang Wang - United States

Texas A&M University, Texas AgriLife Research Center at Dallas

Email: xw-wang@tamu.edu

Project Idea: work with Bangladesh scientists for sweet potato nutrition, postharvest, women involvement in horticulture.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Partners are either in USA or Bangladesh or Nepal. The partners are willing to work on sweetpotato production, nutrition and horticultural training to help Bangladesh/Nepal women and children increase dairy value and health.

Masum Akond - United States

Texas AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University System

Email: m-akond@tamu.edu

Project Idea: Work with Bangladeshi or Nepal's partners for promotion of sweet potato cultivation, research and women involvement in horticulture sector.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skill ares:
•Sustainable Production Systems•Nutrition and Human Health•Women empowerment
Location: Bangladesh, Nepal ( from University, Research and Extension organisation and NGO)

Nii Simmonds - United States

The DAIN Network

Email: nii.simmonds@dainnetwork.org

Project Idea: Utilizing the African Diaspora who have experiences in agribusiness, to provide mentorship for agriculture enterprise inside Agribusiness Incubators in Ghana and Kenya. www.dainnetwork.org

Expertise: Market systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: PPP

Eunice Bonsi - United States

Tuskegee University

Email: ebonsi@tuskegee.edu

Project Idea: Value addition to Horticultural crops through product development, processing and food formulation for Nutrition and health enhancement with micronutrients.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Ghana, Tanzania, Benin

Amelie Gaudin - United States

UCDavis

Email: agaudin@ucdavis.edu

Project Idea: Agroecological practices to mitigate soil degradation, irrigation and conservation practices, From sustainability to resilience: Dual purpose of cropping system diversification using indigenous hardy crops

Peter Jeranyama - United States

UMASS Amherst

Email: peterj@umext.umass.edu

Project Idea: Fruit and vegetable production in Africa

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: plant physiology, crop production, knowledge of HPLC, wet laboratory experience

Ali Sarkhosh - United States

University of Florida

Email: sarkhosha@ufl.edu

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Davie Kadyampakeni - United States

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Email: DKADYAMPAKENI@UFL.EDU

Project Idea: Enhancing water and nutrient use efficiencies in fruit crop production systems

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: PHD in Horticulture

Chad Paton PhD - United States

University of Georgia

Email: cpaton@uga.edu

Project Idea: Increasing Vitamin A status by promoting cultivation of carotenoid-rich vegetables; low-cost, low-tech methods of preservation of carotenoid-rich foods.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Anthony Bratsch, Ph.D. - United States

University of Illinois - Extension

Email: bratsch@illinois.edu

Project Idea: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) training; vegetable and small fruit agronomic systems; research and extension capacity building with host country institution(s)

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Interested in being part of a CRSP team project in Central America or Africa

Sarah Melissa Witiak - United States

Virginia State University

Email: switiak@vsu.edu

Project Idea: I work at a small land-grant university. I would like to work with a collaborator abroad on crop improvement and sustainability. We also have research on goat genetic improvement, so collaborations to develop better forage systems would also be welcome

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Hard working, creative,
English or French

Kipkoriony Rutto - United States

Virginia State University

Email: lrutto@vsu.edu

Project Idea: Seed systems with special emphasis on AIVs

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: GIS specialist; socio-economist

Benin

Séverin Tchibozo - Benin

Centre de Recherche pour la Gestion de la Biodiversité (CRGB, www.crgbbj.org)

Email: s.tchibozo@crgbbj.org

Project Idea: Tomatoes : Production and the technology for the smallholder farmers.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Technical field expertise from any country.

Ahohuendo - Benin

Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi

Email: ahohuendoc@daad-alumni.de

Project Idea: Domestication of traditional leafy vegetables

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Production of traditional leafy vegetables

Dr. Rodrigue V. Cao Diogo - Benin

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences-University of Parakou

Email: dcao_bj@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Innovative recycling of animal waste for sustainable high quality indigenous vegetable production

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Sustainable crop-livestock intensification, sustainable vegetable production, sustainable livestock production, integrated crop livestock systems
USA, Canada, Europe

DAYI ETIENNE - Benin

GRANDE DIGNITE HUMAINE

Email: edakin942@gmail.com

Project Idea: production of vegetables ;fruits and others products of the garden.These products may importants clients in national local markets and international markets.The main goal of this project is to permit unemployment people of diploma to enjoy their life on receiving monthly salary with their family.That action may permit also to contribute
the development of food and nutrition in development countries.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: usa; canada; Belgique; allemagne ; europe; Africa

Kerstin Hell - Benin

International Institue of Tropical Agriculture

Email: k.hell@cgiar.org

Project Idea: Working towards reducing food losses in postharvest fruit and vegetable chains

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: - new germplasm (especially treefruits)
- cold chain capacity (potentially solar)

Anicet DASSOU - Benin

Polytechnic University of Abomey

Email: dassoua@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Influence of tomatoes cropping systems on the pest ecological management in Benin

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Ecological pest management, Biological management, Agricultural entomology

Senegal

Boubacar FOFANA - Senegal

CIIAD AFRIQUE

Email: ciiad_afrique@yahoo.com

Project Idea: HORTICULTURAL PROJECT FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN RURAL AREAS

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: PRODUCTION IN ARID AREAS AND OCEANIC ZONES

El hadji Ousmane KA - Senegal

G.I.E KAFRESSO

Email: ousmaneka312@gmail.com

Project Idea: self sufficient in potatos and onion

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: agribusiness and new technique of production

Sokhna R. GAYE - Senegal

JIGËN

Email: jiggenservices@gmail.com

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: U.S , India, South Africa

Aliou Faye - Senegal

Senegalese Agricultural Research Institute (ISRA)

Email: aliouselbe11@gmail.com

Project Idea: agriculture and livestock integration

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

El Hadji Malick Leye - Senegal

Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research, ISRA

Email: elhadjmalickleye@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Contribute to the development of horticulture in Senegal by improving the productive bases (soil and inputs) and strengthen the capacities of farmers, especially women and young people

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are looking for partners who have already experienced or develop proven technologies that can accelerate food and nutritional security through the development of horticulture in Senegal

Australia

Dr. Kate Fiedler - Australia

CSIRO

Email: k.d.fiedler@gmail.com

Project Idea: Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP) to improve shelf life and food safety. Improvement of in-field production practices to improve postharvest pathogen-caused rots. Focus on rural production regions of South and Southeast Asia.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Ali Sarkhosh - Australia

Department of Primary Industry and Resources

Email: ali.sarkhosh@nt.gov.au

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development

David Forrest - Australia

Technical and Further Education Primary Industries NSW Australia

Email: organicforrest@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Cooperation with Bhutan Government to develop Organic training courses for farmers.
Soil management training in Kathmandu Valley Nepal

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Enabling funding for development and implementation

Lesotho

Matumelo Rafiri - Lesotho

Department of Agric Research

Email: marafiri@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Promote cultivation and processing of apricots and tomatoes to address the food security issues.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Breeding , horticulture,

Malawi

Lawrent Lino Michael Pungulani - Malawi

Department of Agricultural Research Services

Email: lawrentp@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: Indigenous vegetables for improved health and income in drought prone areas

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Breeding

ISAAC Rhinnexious FANDIKA - Malawi

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICES, KASINTHULA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION, MALAWI

Email: fandikai@yahoo.co.uk

Project Idea: SOLAR - POWERED IRRIGATED BANANA AND VEGETABLE FOR INCOME GENERATION AND NUTRITION SECURITY

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: SOLAR SYSTEM, HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTION

Alinafe Mpoka - Malawi

Farm Concern International (MALAWI OFFICE)

Email: alinafe.mpoka@farmconcern.org

Project Idea: Nutritional Education and Food Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment: Empowering youth in farm management
This idea is the School Gardens Project, which targets local and rural schools and provides youth with agricultural skills and training. Gardens will be established where youth can learn how to cultivate, harvest, prepare meals and market produce, to manage costs and revenues, and to rear livestock. The project will provide exposure to the full range of responsibilities of managing a garden, and extends learning beyond the classroom. Gardens will be operated and managed by students outside of the school hours, where there is interest, providing experience in the agri-business sector.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Finance assistance

Frankie Washoni - Malawi

Hortinet

Email: hortinet@africa-online.net

Project Idea: Commercialisation of Fruits and Vegetables in Malawi

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agribusiness

Hankie Uluko - Malawi

Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Email: huluko@bunda.luanar.mw

Project Idea: Reducing postharvest losses of perishables during transportation

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Modeling, design of affordable transportation systems: Location-Malawi

stanley chitukwi - Malawi

OSSEDI MALAWI

Email: ossedimalawi@gmail.com

Project Idea: Promote horticulture production in primary schools

Expertise: Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Capacity development and production techniques include Financial

Hamdan Banda - Malawi

Sky Irrigation Scheme

Email: hamd.zefa@gmail.com

Project Idea: Promoting Rice Production To Reduce Rural Poverty.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Irrigation systems construction, marketing systems, and post-harvest systems and food security.

Winfred Chanza - Malawi

Trustees of Agricultural Promotion Progamme

Email: chanzawinfred@gmail.com

Project Idea: Promotion of high value local vegetables for improved nutrition and incomes for women farmers

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Marketing and value addition

Juliet Mmanga - Malawi

World Relief Malawi

Email: julietmmanga@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Mushroom, fruits

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Mzuzu

Thailand

Associate Professor Dr. Jureerat Leesmidt - Thailand

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kasetsart University

Email: jureerat.c@ku.ac.th

Project Idea: 1. Selected desire traits manipulative of natural microorganisms by natural adaptation for agricultural, environmental and industrial application usage.
2. Entirely complete steps of organic vegetables production (primary focus on ready to eat vegetables) by using natural manipulated microorganisms: increase production efficiently, reduction of the cost and environmental friendly.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: 1. Natural microbial applications for agricultural, environmental and industrial usage
2. Model of systemic and control agricultural organic field study

Rujira Deewatthanawong - Thailand

Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research

Email: rd98@cornell.edu

Project Idea: International export potentials of horticultural products; Off season fruit production; Value-added products for health promotion.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Experts in the field of horticulture, nutrition, packaging, and Food Science.

Swaziland

Louis Maziya - Swaziland

Egebeni Development Public Company

Email: egebenidev@swazi.net

Project Idea: Production and Marketing Of Baby Vegetables for the export market

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Finance, Postharvest Systems, Capacity Building

Gambia

Ebrima Jarra - Gambia

FarmTech. Gambia

Email: jarraebrima08@gmail.com

Project Idea: Giving expertise advices and training to both local and advance farmers.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: -Training of trainers.
-Exchange of members for expansion of project idea.

Momodou A Ceesay - Gambia

Gambia Horticultural Enterprise

Email: gamhortmc@gmail.com

Project Idea: Engaged in the entire horticulture value chain from inputs, tools and machinery distribution, growing of tropical fruits and off-season fresh vegetables, agro-food & beverage processing, marketing (export & local) to services (capacity building of women and youth in all aspects of horticulture).

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticultural Projects Formulation and Implementation

Nigeria

Nabeel Adeyemi - Nigeria

Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta

Email: nabeel@pindfoundation.org

Project Idea: Leverage near /market-ready solutions of technology/ technical Solution providers, with scaleable opportunities toward building resilience of rural communities in the Niger Delta region through PIND's Appropriate Technology Enable Development (ATED) programme

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Experience in implementing near /market-ready technology/ technical solution in coastal communities

KEHINDE LAWRENCE OLAWUYI - Nigeria

Fresh Growers Limited

Email: kehince@gmail.com

Project Idea: Formulation of Biofertilizers and Biopesticides from Plants and beneficial microorganismsto be use in production of vegetables and fruits in sub-saharan Africa

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: organic vegetable and production, Pesticide formulation, pesticide chemistry, Botanical identification, biodiversity conservation

Aisha Muhammad Aliyu - Nigeria

Kano University of Science and Technolog

Email: aliyuaisha02@gmail.com

Project Idea: Effects of Bat guano and Abscisic acid for amaranth transplant production during water stress and rehydration

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Florida, farming skills for greenhouse

Grace Oluwakemi Babarinde - Nigeria

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Ngeria

Email: gobabarinde@lautech.edu.ng

Project Idea: Reduction of post harvest losses of food using local spices
and product development for increased food and nutrition security

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest systems specialist or a food nutritionist or technologist.

Christogonus Daudu - Nigeria

National Agricultural Extension Research & Liaison Services, Ahmadu Bello University, P.M.B. 1067, Zaria Nigeria

Email: chrisdaudu@yahoo.com

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Adekemi Shokalu - Nigeria

National Horticultural Research Institute ( NIHORT )

Email: kemishokalu@yahoo.co.uk

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

ochan chuol hoth - Nigeria

National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria

Email: ochan.chuol@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Enhance utilization of African indigenous vegetables (AIV) through sustainable use of the locally accessible plant genetic resources, AIV seed systems improvement and standardization, consumer-driven AIV improvement for food security and food-mediated disease risk reduction.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.), Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Principal Investigator from US public university wishing to carry out regional research in West Africa.

IDOWU-AGIDA OLADAYO O. - Nigeria

National Horticultural Research Institute, P.M.B. 5432 Dugbe Ibadan

Email: agidadayo@gmail.com

Project Idea: collection of germplasm and enhancing Africa indigenous vegetable for sustainability

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: skills on insitu preservation Africa indigenous vegetable collections. location is Africa

David Ojo - Nigeria

NHORT

Email: drdavidojo@gmail.com

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Sola Ajayi - Nigeria

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Email: saajayi@daad-alumni.de

Project Idea: Germplasm collection and evaluation, genetic improvement, seed supply system for african indigenous vegetables

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Ogunwobi Ifekristi Aanu - Nigeria

Postgraduate Student. University of Ibadan

Email: ife.ogunwobi@gmail.com

Project Idea: To improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers by conducting researches and promoting agronomic practices which will improve their yield.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Proactiveness

OYELEKE BOLA - Nigeria

TOMATOES AND ORCHARDS PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (TOPAN)

Email: contacttopan@gmail.com

Project Idea: "TOPAN is committed to providing members and clients with services. We assist the farmers with improved technology for Tomatoes and Orchard farming and provide thorough analytics that are measurable for making strategic training decisions.
TOPAN also undertakes farmers, community, staff and institutional training on best practices and contemporary issues in Tomatoes and Orchard farming; gender empowerment, results based management, monitoring and evaluation, resources management for enhanced accountability and sustainability of impacts.
Pursuant of the Association’s aim to cater for the Development of the unemployed, women and young people. TOPAN seeks to help women, youth, and farmers without basic or no education at all acquire practical skills and engage in productive income generating activities to make them self-reliant and gainfully engaged in agricultural related activities vis-à-vis production."

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: The members of the TOPAN are in dire need to contribute to development in Agriculture. The major problem faced by the project and which it will try to address is the lack of the most appropriate agriculture inputs to start production activities. These inputs include farm equipment, seeds, planting materials, etc. We seek youth participation in food production and distribution in Nigeria

Peter Ojo UWUKHOR - Nigeria

University of Ibadan

Email: puwukhor@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Plant disease control of Tomato affected with Fusarium wilt and beign cured with Trichoderma in the presence of environmental stressors

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Expert in Fungi identification, Molecular genetics of both lower and higher fungi, A skilled personnel in the use of R, Minitab and Genstat Statistical software packages, and also someone residing in India, Australia and Netherland or anywhere in the world

Bolivia

VLADIMIR ARCE - Bolivia

FUDESEM-ANDINO

Email: oruroandino2013@gmail.com

Project Idea: "IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE MICRO TÚNELES PARA LA PRODUCCIÓN HORTÍCOLA EN EL MUNICIPIO DE SANTIAGO DE HUAYLLAMARCA
1. Antecedentes
Bolivia está clasificada como un país con alta vulnerabilidad a la inseguridad alimentaria, y con alto grado de pobreza, cerca de 6 de cada 10 bolivianos sufren hambre y no tienen bienestar nutricional.
La seguridad alimentaria es un fenómeno complejo que involucra múltiples factores. En Bolivia, el deterioro en la seguridad alimentaria es el resultado de una serie de tendencias:
a) Reducción de la superficie cultivada de la tierra y su fragmentación creciente.
b) La creciente urbanización y la migración de la mano de obra de las zonas rurales.
c) Las variaciones ambientales como las sequías e inundaciones.
d) La baja productividad agrícola y reducido uso de tecnología contribuyen a una pobre disponibilidad de alimento en comunidades que principalmente se encuentran ubicadas en regiones altiplánicas.

La incidencia de la pobreza es del 67,3%, pobreza extrema 37% de la población nacional en términos generales. Sin embargo, esta proporción abarca más de un 47% en el caso de la población indígena, llegando a 79,5% en áreas rurales. La incidencia de la pobreza extrema en menores de 18 años es de 45,2%, re-presentando 1,9 millones de niños, y la incidencia de la pobreza moderada era de 69,6%, representando 2,9 millones de niños .
La pobreza y sus efectos se manifiestan de manera más contundente en las poblaciones indígenas y originarias que representan el 65% de la población. Debido a varios factores, entre ellos las marcadas disparidades en el acceso a servicios básicos, información, tecnología y desigualdad de oportunidades.
La realidad de la malnutrición es el reflejo de los diferentes estados de transición demográfica. Los efectos de la desnutrición afectan a las futuras generaciones, es así que el estado nutricional de la madre puede afectar la salud de sus futuros nietos. Utilizando el factor talla/edad, el 32% de toda la población infantil, sufren de desnutrición crónica (PMA, 2008).
La desnutrición afecta a 23 de cada 100 niños, de entre 6 y 23 meses de edad, mientras que alcanza a 38 de cada 100 en municipios con alta vulnerabilidad a la inseguridad alimentaria, según da-tos de la Encuesta Nacional de Nutrición encarada por el Ministerio de Salud. Un niño del área rural tiene un riesgo de 2.6 veces mayor, que su par del área urbana, de sufrir desnutrición crónica en grado moderado o severo.
Una de las causas fundamentales de la Inseguridad Alimentaria es la pobreza causante de falta de empleo y reducido ingreso familiar para la adquisición de alimentos saludables.
El 59% en las áreas rurales no tiene acceso suficiente a necesidades básicas de alimentos. La desnutrición crónica es más del doble en los municipios altamente vulnerables, ubicados en la región andina (29,6%) y en los valles (26%), comparadas con la prevalencia en la región oriental (12,3%).
2. Localización del proyecto
Ubicación política
Departamento : Oruro
Provincia : Nor Carangas
Municipio : Santiago de Huayllamarca
Ubicación geográfica
18º01`01,62” – 18º04`40,64” Latitud Sud:
68º59´49,62” – 67º58`37,79” Longitud Oeste:
Altura media 3900 msnm.
La Primera Sección Municipal de la Provincia Nor Carangas, ubicada en el occidente del departamento de Oruro – Bolivia posee una extensión de 870 Km2*, repartidos en tres pisos ecológicos: planicie inundable (3.800 m.s.n.m.), serranía (de 3.800 a 4.000 m.s.n.m.) y puna (4.000 m.s.n.m.).
Desde el punto de vista político, el municipio está formado por 3 distritos y 9 cantones; el ordenamiento ancestral contempla la existencia de 23 ayllus.

3. Población

El Municipio de Huayllamarca cuenta con una población total de 4900 Habitantes.

Principales Actividades que realizan la Comunidad

Las unidades familiares del municipio dedican los suelos a dos actividades principales: agricultura y ganadería. Las características y los resultados de las actividades agropecuarias en cada piso altitudinal presentan rasgos diferenciales, -diversidad de los cultivos, crianzas animales, manejo y riesgos.
La ganadería extensiva ocupa la mayor parte de los predios familiares -el 95% de su extensión total-, estas áreas están integradas por campos de pradera nativa y terrenos en descanso -en los cuales se desarrolla una vegetación secundaria aprovechada para la alimentación del ganado.
Las tierras de pastoreo con mayor extensión se encuentran en planicie -con un promedio de 67,82 has/flia-, continúan las de puna -con 10.78 has/flia- y finalmente las de serranía -con 7,63 has/filia-.

Las tierras dedicadas a agricultura de secano con mayor tamaño se encuentran en planicie y serranía -1,38 y 1.20 has/flia respectivamente- y por último están las de puna -0.91 has/flia-.
Se pueden encontrar tierras de cultivo bajo riego en los tres pisos ecológicos, si embargo, el recurso agua se aprovecha más intensamente en serranía.

4. Características de la población objeto
El proyecto “Implementación de micro túneles para la producción hortícola en el municipio de Huayllamarca” será implementado en lugares aledaños a la población principal, abarcando 100 familias campesinas indígenas originarias, las mismas que se encuentran distribuidas y focalizadas en el entorno de la población.
4.1. Acceso al Municipio.
El Municipio de Santiago de Huayllamarca, se encuentra ubicado en el altiplano central del occidente del departamento de Oruro al noroeste de la ciudad a una distancia de 112 Km conectado por una carretera principal.
4.2. Características de la zona del proyecto
En el territorio de Huayllamarca, las características orográficas y morfológicas indican la predominancia del piso ecológico denominado Puna donde se observan condiciones ambientales relativamente uniformes, ocupadas por una comunidad de especies vegetales nativas de altura.
Los suelos de Huayllamarca tienen diferentes matices lo que repercute en el desarrollo de las plantas y los animales. La mayor parte de los suelos poseen una característica franco arenosa y arcillosa pero con capas arables superficiales en la mayoría de la superficie.
La flora como conjunto de plantas en sus diversas formas (agrícola, forestal y vegetación nativa) se constituye en unidades básicas de definición del entorno natural desarrolladas en una región. La flora en Huayllamarca es variada.

Huayllamarca presenta un clima semi templado durante el verano y frígido en otoño e invierno, la temperatura media es de 8oC, la temperatura máxima media es de 15oC y la temperatura mínima media es de 0oC, la humedad de 39% y vientos de 11,27
La producción es a secano ya que no existen sistemas de riego por lo que la agricultura es de subsistencia. Entre las especies animales de mayor importancia se tiene a los vacunos, camélidos y ovinos, puesto que se adaptan muy bien a las condiciones medioambientales.
5. Justificación
Las condiciones altiplánicas donde se encuentran localizadas las comunidades beneficiarias del proyecto, constituye una barrera natural para la producción de hortalizas a campo abierto, lo cual se traduce en dietas deficitarias en vitaminas y minerales lo cual es grave para niñas y niños que se encuentran en etapa de desarrollo y edad escolar.
Las familias campesinas de las comunidades participantes no disponen de alimentos de origen vegetal frescos, como hortalizas, que les permita equilibrar la dieta alimenticia. Esta precariedad nutricional se debe fundamentalmente a la imposibilidad de producir hortalizas en sus parcelas de forma convencional, ya que para las condiciones medioambientales de la zona se necesita de infraestructura adecuada que brinde un ambiente acorde para el desarrollo adecuado de las especies vegetales sumándose además la escasa disponibilidad de recursos financieros de los productores campesinos para invertir en infraestructura para la producción hortícola.
En ese sentido la finalidad del apoyo con la instalación de micro túneles tiene como objetivo la producción de hortalizas y contribuir a reducir la desnutrición, ya que la política de FUDESEM - ANDINO, dentro sus lineamientos tiene como objetivo principal bajar el índice de desnutrición, ya que este problema limita el desarrollo de los niños y niñas.
Asimismo, la implementación de estructuras como los micro túneles constituyen una gran ventaja frente a las carpas solares o invernaderos fijos, ya que con este tipo de estructuras portátiles se puede producir en distintos lugares del predio en caso que el suelo se infeste por ejemplo con nematodos u hongos como el fusarium.

6. Objetivos
Los objetivos que persigue el presente proyecto son:
6.1. Objetivo General
Mejorar las condiciones nutricionales de las familias de productores campesinos en el Municipio de Santiago de Huayllamarca a través de la producción de hortalizas bajo sistemas de micro túneles y su incorporación en la dieta alimenticia cotidiana.

6.2. Objetivos específicos
• Capacitar a los productores de 4 comunidades del municipio de Santiago de Huayllamarca en la instalación y manejo de micro túneles.
• Producir hortalizas para autoconsumo bajo sistemas de micro túneles familiares.
• Capacitar a las mujeres productoras y fortalecer sus destrezas en el proceso de producción de hortalizas.
• Mejorar las condiciones nutricionales de 100 familias del municipio de Huayllamarca permitiendo el acceso a productos alimenticios frescos (hortalizas) a lo largo del año.

7. Resultados esperados
Los resultados que se pretenden alcanzar con el proyecto para el logro de los objetivos propuestos son:
• 100 familias de productores se encuentran capacitados para realizar la instalación y manejo de micro túneles.
• Las Familias de productores cuentan con micro túneles construidos y funcionando en el municipio.
• Las mujeres productoras y madres de familia han sido capacitadas en la producción de hortalizas y participan activamente en el proceso.
• 100 familias de productores campesinos indígenas originarios del municipio de Huayllamarca han mejorado la dieta alimenticia en sus hogares con la incorporación de especies hortícolas en su ración.
• Productores capacitados en producción hortícola sostenible y resiliencia al cambio climático.

8. Descripción del proyecto
El presente proyecto ha sido diseñado contemplando dos componentes:
• Componente 1: apoyo a la producción de hortalizas
• Componente 2: Mejora de la nutrición familiar.

8.1. Componente 1: Apoyo a la producción de hortalizas

El componente 1 centrará sus esfuerzos en la implementación de la infraestructura necesaria para la producción de hortalizas como también en el proceso productivo, para ello se ha trazado tres líneas de acción que se desarrollan a continuación.
8.1.1. Capacitación en la construcción y manejo de micro túneles
El proyecto contempla la adquisición de material para la construcción de micro túneles familiares, que tendrán una dimensión de 1,20 m x 10,0 m; esto implica la dotación a cada beneficiario del material necesario para su construcción.
Una vez se haga la entrega de los materiales a cada beneficiario, de acuerdo a la planificación de coordinación y a través del técnico agrónomo se efectuará el proceso de capacitación en la construcción de los micro túneles, este proceso será netamente práctico donde el técnico junto a cada beneficiario procederán con el armado de la infraestructura, de esta manera se garantizará el aprendizaje.

El proyecto también ha previsto la capacitación en el manejo de la infraestructura productiva, ¿qué significa aquello?

Que el productor deberá estar capacitado para poder manejar la estructura durante todo el ciclo vegetativo del cultivo, asimismo deberá tener conocimientos suficientes para realizar el control de temperatura y humedad dentro el ambiente, de manera que no se afecte el normal desarrollo de las plantas.
8.1.2. Capacitación y asistencia técnica en el manejo de cultivos hortícolas
El proceso de producción de hortalizas, contemplará un servicio de asistencia técnica a nivel de campo que será reforzado con talleres de capacitación, por lo que la segunda línea de acción del componente 1, será un 90% práctico y un 10% teórico.
En tal sentido el proceso de asistencia a los productores se concentrará en las siguientes actividades prioritarias:
a) Manejo de recursos naturales (suelo y agua) para la producción de hortalizas.
b) Fertilización del suelo y uso de abonos orgánicos para la producción en micro túneles.
c) Almácigos para hortalizas, manejo de cultivos en el almácigo hasta el trasplante.
d) Principales plagas y enfermedades de los cultivos hortícolas, prevención y tratamiento.
e) Manejo integrado de plagas (MIP) en horticultura.
f) Cosecha de hortalizas.

8.1.3. Asistencia en producción sostenible y resiliencia al cambio climático
El cambio climático se ha convertido en uno de los grandes temas de la política pública mundial y nacional durante los últimos quince años.
Anticipar los cambios y planificar en torno a ellos en infraestructura, producción, vivienda, agricultura y recursos renovables es clave para reducir los riesgos asociados.
El cambio climático es un desastre que llega lentamente, por lo que puede ofrecer a las comunidades y/o países el tiempo necesario para adaptarse. En ese sentido el proyecto contempla un proceso de capacitación en resiliencia al cambio climático, de manera que los productores beneficiarios cuenten con las herramientas cognitivas necesarias para afrontar futuras situaciones de escasez de alimentos, donde precisamente la producción de alimento en micro túneles ofrece una alternativa sostenible para el productor que vive en zona altiplánica.

8.2. Componente 2: Mejora de la nutrición familiar

El segundo componente del proyecto, está enfocado a la mejora de la nutrición familiar, para tal efecto se ha considerado dos líneas de acción. Una primera correspondiente a la asistencia y capacitación en nutrición y la segunda correspondiente a la coordinación con el sector salud del municipio.
8.2.1. Asistencia y capacitación en nutrición familiar
El proyecto brindará asistencia técnica y capacitación en nutrición familiar, para ello se tiene previsto la contratación de un profesional en nutrición, quien tendrá a su cargo la realización de las siguientes tareas.
a) Realizar talleres de capacitación referente a la nutrición de la familia.
b) Organizar por lo menos tres ferias locales donde se expondrán distintas recetas culinarias elaboradas con hortalizas y otros alimentos producidos en la zona, de acuerdo a la época o estación del año.
c) Realizar un monitoreo en la zona del proyecto respecto a la adopción de recomendaciones referente a la nutrición.

8.2.2. Coordinación con el Servicio de Salud Municipal
Al inicio del proyecto se firmará un convenio de coordinación interinstitucional con el Servicio de Salud Municipal, instancia con la que se coordinará los eventos de capacitación en nutrición.
La participación de profesionales del servicio de salud permitirá realizar un seguimiento más apropiado a la nutrición de cada una de las familias como también al proyecto, puesto que la información que el proyecta pueda generar se contrastará con la información histórica que cuenta el sector salud en la zona respecto a los parámetros nutricionales de las comunidades.

9. Tiempo de ejecución del proyecto
El proyecto tendrá una duración de 12 meses, tiempo necesario para que cada familia beneficiaria logre apropiarse del proyecto asimismo se pueda demostrar el proceso productivo de hortalizas en dos escenarios distintos, es decir en primavera e invierno.
10. Presupuesto Estimado
El presupuesto estimado para la ejecución del proyecto asciende a $us. 84.190,09 de acuerdo al siguiente detalle.

Aporte Externo: 69.391,24
Aporte Local: 14.798,84
Total Proyecto: 84.190,08"

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: ENTIDAD QUE FINANCIA AL DESARROLLO HORTICOLA

Gabon

Tristan NONDAH - Gabon

Gabonese Institute for Support to Development

Email: nontris@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: capacity building of horticulture in urban areas

Expertise: Market systems, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Zimbabwe

Felix Majeke - Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe University

Email: fmajeke@gmail.com

Project Idea: 1. Seasonal food availability calendars
2. Processing and preservation of harvested crops as a strategy of filling in seasonal food shortages

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: processing and preservation

Sierra Leone

Martin Kailie - Sierra Leone

Green Africa

Email: martin4africa@gmail.com

Project Idea: 1. Africa Indigenous Vegetables for Women's Empowerment 2. Pond Irrigation for Community Resilience 3. Cassava-based Ethanol for Clean Cook Stoves 4. Cassava Post-harvest Management

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Technical Design Field Testing and Pilot Study Random Control Trials

Peter Dennis Musa - Sierra Leone

pmusa43@yahoo.com

Email: pmusa43@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Development of improved varieties through molecular breeding. The use of horticultural crops to address malnutrition in the rural communities

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: skills in the use of molecular markers
bioinformatics and analysis of molecular data

Felixtina Jonsyn-Ellis - Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Agriculture Research Institute

Email: tinajonsyn@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Integrating Livestock production and horticulture

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Production of diverse research on new horticultural crops. Livestock production, to improve health and welfare of small holder farmers

Cambodia

Matt Zimmerman - Cambodia

Green Leaf Farm

Email: mjz1963@gmail.com

Project Idea: I welcome researchers to conduct research on my organic vegetable and fruit farm. Can be related to pest and disease control; use of greenhouse or nethouse; soil fertility management; conservation/no till farming; plastic versus natural mulches; integration of green manure crops; etc. Hope to also start a contract growing arrangement with a group of small scale farmers also. I am also available for consulting. I am an horticulture expert with 25 years experience including having been hired by USAID/Cambodia to serve as the Agriculture Expert on the mid-term evaluation of the HARVEST project (US $60 million Feed the Future Initiative in Cambodia).

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Horticulture expertise, effective solutions for organic horticulture in Cambodia.

Vathana Thun - Cambodia

Prek Leap National College of Agriculture

Email: thunvathana@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Village hub where livestock production is rotated on a piece of land. Vegetable production is moved into the plot after grazing or livestock has been kept there for a period of time. In doing so, the project also promotes safe and organic agriculture for high end market so that farmers can earn more from a unit of land and farm inputs.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Genetics and seed production, sanitary and phytosanitary, and agribusiness

Guatemala

Amanda Quinn - Guatemala

Health&Help

Email: quinn.amanda@hotmail.co.uk

Project Idea: Improving brain development in the under 3s by tackling malnutrition

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Looking for a horticulturist happy to visit our clinic and work with us to offer technological advances to local people in the poorest areas in order to improve child nutrition.

Mario Morales - Guatemala

ICTA

Email: hortalizas@icta.gob.gt

Project Idea: IPM Bactericera cockerelli

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: All the country, affecting tomato, pepper, potato and eggplant.

FERNANDO SOLÍS - Guatemala

ICTA Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Agrícolas. Guatemala

Email: lfersolis@gmail.com

Project Idea: Evaluación, Implementación, Desarrollo Tecnológico y Capacitación con la Tecnología de BIOFUMIGACION en suelos para la producción de Hortalizas en comunidades de Altiplano Central de Guatemala (Chimaltenango) y Centro Experimental ICTA La Alameda Chimaltenango con grupos de Mujeres Indígenas.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: GRUPOS DE MUJERES INDIGENAS POBRES DEL AREA QUE HAN SIDO ASOCIADAS DEL ICTA EN OTROS AÑOS Y OTROS PROYECTOS DE MAIZ Y FRIJOL

AMILCAR SANCHEZ PEREZ - Guatemala

Universidad de San Carlos, Agronomía

Email: gramisp@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Horticultural production system and IPM

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant breeder and IPM

Héctor Tuy - Guatemala

Universidad Rafael Landivar

Email: htuy@url.edu.gt

Project Idea: Decision support system (DSS) in agriculture and food security.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health, Enabling environment (policy, finiance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Databases management, simulation models development, and mathematical optimization. R&D; Grant writing.

Justus Riemann - Guatemala

Wageningen University

Email: justus.riemann@wur.nl

Project Idea: Open pollinated vegetable variety breeding and seed multiplication

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Pakistan

MUHAMMAD ZAHID RASHID - Pakistan

Horticultural Research Institute Ayub Agricultural Research Institute Faisalabad Pakistan

Email: uafzahid@gmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancement of Horticultural fruit crops quality by improving management practices.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Aman Ullah Malik - Pakistan

Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Email: malikaman1@gmail.com

Project Idea: To help establish a "Centre for Postharvest System Research and Development"

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Postharvest Supply Chain

Liaqat Ali - Pakistan

liaqat corp

Email: insta_liaqat@yahoo.com

Project Idea: INSTALLATION OF FRUIT/VEGETABLE DEHYDRATION PLANT AT NEW SITE UNDER THE PARTNERSHIP OF USA SOLE DISTRIBUTER/SOLE IMPORTER/PARTNER

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: THIS IS OUR FAMILY BUSINESS AND ARE TECHNICALLY SOUND AND PROCESSING FOR NATIONAL/MULTINATIONAL AND ARE CAPABLE TO PROVIDE TANGIBLE SECURITY TO THE PARTNER THROUGH BANKS ETC.

Ali - Pakistan

Liaqat Corporation

Email: phlaid@liaqatcorp.com

Project Idea: Establishment of Dried Common Horticulture Processing plant in Rural Areas for the saving of small scale holders in Asia Africa.

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are Technically Practically sound since 1975 in Dried Horticulture/Dairy/Livestock ingredients/preventing PHL with zero loss and seeking a partner to provide dried processing lines. The project land & building has been completed with our own funding and seeking partners in USA for Dried Processing Partnership agreements.

Muhammad Tayyib Naseem - Pakistan

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

Email: tayyibnaseem@hotmail.com

Project Idea: To investigate the virus-vector interaction of fruits and vegetable crop

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Molecular virology, Plant Pathology

Muslim Ullah Khan - Pakistan

Pakistan Pest Bio Management Association

Email: reach.vulnerable@yahoo.com

Project Idea: To introduce the use of 'Pest Bio Management' by farmers throughout Pakistan. This will help reduce poverty and thus will help to prevent militancy and terrorism in this country.This idea can benefit lakes of farmers thus stable Pakistan is need of the whole world.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Need only Financial Support of our project.

Sami ur Rehman - Pakistan

PMAS-ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY RAWALPIMDI

Email: samiurrehman96@gmail.com

Project Idea: Landscape designing. Want to work in floriculture industry of Pakistan.

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Seasonal flower production in subtropical climate.

Karim Ali Bahadur - Pakistan

Trees for Sustainable Economic Development

Email: karim.hrdc@gmail.com

Project Idea: To develop horticultural, marketing, tourism, education, employment and business

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: From any where for funding and technical assistance to develop the project

Prof. Dr. M. A.Pervez - Pakistan

university of agriculture faisalabad

Email: pervez62@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Screening of salt tolerant vegetables and salt tolerance induction through exogenous application of osmolytes

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: stress physiology

Muhammad Jafar Jaskani - Pakistan

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Email: jjaskani@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Fruit plants nursery production system; micropropagation; germplasm conservation and development

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Propapagation; germplasm evaluation

Dr. Waseem Akram - Pakistan

University of Agriculture, Faqisalabad

Email: areeba14@yahoo.com

Project Idea: PEST MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT AND GLOBALGAP CONTROL AT FARM LEVEL

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: IPM EXPERTS IN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION/USA

Khuram Zia - Pakistan

University of Agriculture, Faqisalabad

Email: khuramzia22@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Sustainable management of insect pests of citrus

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agriculturist/USA

China

Ke Huang - China

Hunan Agricultural University, P.R.C

Email: huangkeqy@hotmail.com

Project Idea: improve the health value of vegetable crops by increasing the anti-cancer or antioxidant ingredient content in vegetables.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: breeding, molecular biology, metabolomics, transcriptomics

Sri Lanka

Harindra Champa - Sri Lanka

Institute of Post Harvest Technology

Email: harindra74@hotmail.com

Project Idea: Postharvest loss reduction and Quality improvement during supply chain and value chain activities

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: South Asia

Damitha Rajapakse - Sri Lanka

Native Forest Foundation

Email: damilda@sltnet.lk

Project Idea: conservation and propagation of fast disappearing native wild fruits and medicinal plants and preservation & desimination of indigenous knowledge associated with native plants by establishing an ethno-garden as a gene bank for future

Expertise: Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Plant conservation / any location

Ramya Fonseka - Sri Lanka

University of Peradeniya

Email: ramyamf@gmail.com

Project Idea: Alleviation of poverty and enhance nutrient and food security through home gardening in Rural dry zone of Sri lanka

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Food and Nutrition/USA or Japan

Germany

Naomi Ketter - Germany

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya

Email: naomichelimo@gmail.com

Project Idea: Increasing water use efficiency in vegetable production

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Grant writing and crop water management

Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Shafiq - Saudi Arabia

King Saud University, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Email: mshafiq@ksu.edu.sa

Project Idea: Natural control of endogenous ethylene biosynthesis in fresh climacteric produce

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post-harvest physiology and technology, Plant bio-stimulants - functions and biological responses in production and post-harvest horticulture

Romania

Pop Mihai Radu - Romania

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Email: mihaipop76@gmail.com

Project Idea: Horticultural Biodiversity

Expertise: Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Any

Myanmar [Burma]

aung khaing win - Myanmar [Burma]

Myintmyat agrochemicalcompany

Email: aungkhaingwin2009@gmail.com

Project Idea: to produce off season mango in Myanmar

Expertise: Market systems

Burkina Faso

PARKOUDA Charles, PhD - Burkina Faso

National Scientific and Technological Research Centre

Email: cparkouda@yahoo.fr

Project Idea: Research to Improve Handling, Storage, and Marketing of Tomatoes in Burkina Faso for Resilience in the Sahel-Enhanced (RISE)

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Capacity building, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA

Georgia

Ashish Kapur - Georgia

NCC 1702, Ltd.

Email: ashishkapur@ncc1702.co.uk

Project Idea: Almond cultivation in Eastern Europe/Asia

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: * Training young farmers on best practices in almond cultivation * Helping design appropriate water management systems * Improving management of soil, and fertiliser * Identifying the most suitable variety and rootstock for the Georgian climate

Rusudan Mdivani - Georgia

NGO The Centre of Young Scientists

Email: r_mdivani@yahoo.com

Project Idea: To increase efficiency of potato-growing it is necessary to introduce and apply the modern technologies.
The proposed project goal is creation of the local potato seed production basis and production of potato seed materials of high category (basic and certified) by using of in vitro technologies. The integrated system of seed potato production by using of high technologies, elaborated and presented by Dr. Rusudan Mdivani in her doctoral dissertation, will be introduced for implementation of the proposed project, which have been elaborated and tested during 1999-2006 years in several regions of Georgia and have been approved in 2006 year by scientific council of agroecology of the agrarian university (R. Mdivani. Doctoral dissertation “integrated system of production of seed and seedling m aterials”, agroecology, Agrarian University, 2006). The proposed technological system has been approbated by Rusudan Mdivani during 2001-2002 years in Svaneti region within the project “Increase in production of pest-proof potato and introduction of the agricultural technologies in highlands of Georgia” by financial support of World Bank and 2007-2010 years in Sam tskhe-Javakheti region within the project “Virus Less Potato Seed Production in Sam tskhe-Javakheti region” by financial support of UMCOR. Accordingly, the scientific and practical pre-condition for introduction and commercialization of the offered technological system are already developed in Georgia. Virus free, high-yielding and diseases resistant new varieties of potato, received from International Potato Centre (CIP, Peru, Lim a. Where the project
leader has attended the individual course on “Tissue culture techniques for virus elimination, clonal multiplication in seed potato production” in 2001 year) will be introduced within the proposed project. Within the proposed project, the local modern infrastructure of the seed potato production centre will be created (biotechnological laboratory, green house, plot, storage facilities) and the production of high category seed materials (G0, G1, SSE) will be started.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are looking for PI (US university) with experience in the seed potato in vitro production.

Tajikistan

Jumaboy Shohmurodov - Tajikistan

NGO "Eco Agro"

Email: jshohmurodov@gmail.com

Project Idea: Establishment of Demonstration plots and production of oil seeds crops for small scale farmers

Expertise: Market systems, Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building, Enabling environment (policy, finance, infrastructure, etc.)

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Seeds production skills, Capacity building and fundraising skills, locations USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Austria

Mahbubjon Rahmatov - Tajikistan

Tajik Agrarian University

Email: mahbubjon@gmail.com

Project Idea: The horticulture sector is facing major challenges like climate change, biotic and abiotic stresses. Therefore, we would like to establish collaborative network, in order to address these major challenges for improvement of horticultural crops for sustained food security in Tajikistan.

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Research and Development: Pest and disease diagnosis, control, Integrated Pest Management, Irrigation, Organic farming, Postharvest, Cold storage, Seed Production etc.

Vietnam

Vo, Thai Dan - Vietnam

Nong Lam university - Ho Chi Minh City

Email: vthaidan@yahoo.com

Project Idea: - Genetic diversity
- Indigenous/Neglected crops
- Cash crop

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Luong Cao Le - Vietnam

Nong Lam University Hochiminh city

Email: lecaoluong@hcmuaf.edu.vn

Project Idea: Insect pest management on cocoa, tea plant, vegetable and fruit trees

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Capacity building

Northern Mariana Islands

Dilip Nandwani - Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Marianas College

Email: dilipn@nmcnet.edu

Project Idea: Open in fruits and vegetable production and improvement

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Open

Botswana

kaiser Gadimang - Botswana

o gadimang consultancy services

Email: kgadimang@gmail.com

Project Idea: KGATLENG EAST VILLAGES

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: SPECIALIST HORTICULTURE AND IN FOOD AND NUTRITION

Costa Rica

Colleen Spurlock - Costa Rica

OneForest Foundation

Email: clspurlock@ucdavis.edu

Project Idea: Turmeric production in permaculture farming

Expertise: Sustainable production systems

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Best management practices for turmeric production in the tropical lowlands of Costa Rica

Danny Humphreys-Pereira - Costa Rica

University of Costa Rica

Email: danny.humphreys@ucr.ac.cr

Project Idea: Integrated Management of Nematodes, Molecular Characterization of Nematodes, Training.

Liberia

Sylvester P Harris - Liberia

poverty eradication initiative

Email: hsylvester@rocketmail.com

Project Idea: Enhancing food security in post-war Liberia

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: we need your potential input on this subject

South Sudan

Lomeri Nickson - South Sudan

RainLink Foundation Initiative

Email: rfi.org@gmail.com

Project Idea: To assist at least 600 farmers, particularly poor and disadvantaged women, to engage in fruit and tree growing and increase vegetable production for improved food security and income generation by among other things, enabling them to access improved or high-yielding seeds; improve their soil fertility; and minimize pre- and post-harvest losses due to pests, disease and poor crop husbandry.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post harvest management of vegetables and fruits in kajokeji- south sudan.
RainLink Foundation Initiative is searching for partnership funding from investors to address the issues of food insecurity in south sudan.

Soro Mike Hakim - South Sudan

SUDAN PEACE & EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Email: mikesoro_soro@yahoo.com

Project Idea: Africa Indigenous Vegetables Production.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Gender and horticultural development

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Capacity building, market system and Sustainable Production System

Armenia

Simon Arshakyan - Armenia

Union of Agricultural Cooperatives

Email: simonuac@gmail.com

Project Idea: to build and develop Union and member cooperatives capacities, to develop the professional skills of Union members through trainings, trial farming and experience exchange, to increase women enrollment in the development of argiculture and promote establishment of cooperatives, with great participation of women

Expertise: Capacity building

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skills in cooperative development, experience exchange/ Location: Developed Countries

United Kingdom

Carol Wagstaff - United Kingdom

University of Reading

Email: c.wagstaff@reading.ac.uk

Project Idea: We are a postharvest research group within a UK university (Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences). Our research projects span a range of approaches to improving the quality of horticultural crops and food security. These include agronomic, physiology, flavour chemistry, sensory, developing genetic markers for breeding programmes and fundamental work. We work on problems including yield enhancement, senescence, dehiscence, flavour attributes and shelf life. We also work at the interface of plants in the diet and health, with the capacity to do human intervention trials coupled with sensory work, psychological analysis (including brain fMRI), animal models, gut models and cell based assays for biomarkers linked to cardiovascular disease, immune function and cancer. Please contact directly to discuss more specific ideas.

Expertise: Postharvest systems and food safety, Sustainable production systems, Nutrition and human health

Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: US based partner required

Honduras

Rogelio Trabanino - Honduras

Zamorano University

Email: rtrabanino@zamorano.edu

Project Idea: IPM,Biological control of pest and biotechnology. Coffee, vegetable production

Expertise: Sustainable production systems, Gender and horticultural development