CRFS | Grant Portfolio

Building the Circular Bionutrient Economy

Poverty and Health Integrated Solutions (PHIS)

Partners: CCRP project team led by Cornell University’s Professor Rebecca Nelson and members of the Nelson lab and Johannes Lehmann lab; off-campus site The Soil Factory (TSF)

Duration: 8/2022—8/2025

East & Southern Africa

Research Methods Support (RMS)

Statistics for Sustainable Development

Partners: CCRP grantees, grantees’ partners and their institutions, students who are part of regional projects, regional teams and CoP in each region, leadership team, and cross-cutting projects; informal partners CIFOR-ICRAF, the Agroecology Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP), CIRAD, Slow Food, the Agroecology Fund, RHoMIS team, Global Landscapes Forum, and 1CG Agroecology Initiative

Duration: 8/2022—8/2025

Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

African Agroecological Entrepreneurship and Territorial Markets Convening, May 24–26, 2022

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

Duration: 5/2022—5/2022

East & Southern Africa, West Africa

Farmer-Centered Agroecology in Tanzania

Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT)

Partners: Local government authorities (Mvomero District Council), Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM), and Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)

Duration: 2/2022—2/2024

East & Southern Africa

Enhancing Agroecology Friendly Policies and Practices

Agricultural Non State Actors Forum (ANSAF)

Partners: Agroecology Hub of Tanzania, including Sokoine University of Agriculture, RECODA, Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT), and Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NMAIST); Agroecology Hub; government entities the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, President Office (regional administration and local authorities), Vice President Office–Environment, and members of parliament through respective committees

Duration: 11/2021—11/2022

East & Southern Africa

Scaling Out Agroecological Pest Management and Gender Equity

Soils, Food, and Healthy Communities (SFHC) Organization

Partners: Agroecology Hub at LUANAR, Botanical Pesticides project, Malawian Ministry of Agriculture (through FARMS for Biodiversity, a National Science Foundation-funded project), District Agriculture Extension Coordinating Committee (DAECC), Area Development Committee (ADC), Cornell University’s Department of Global Development, University of Western Ontario’s Department of Geography and Environment, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Extension officers, Local nonprofit organizations

Duration: 5/2021—5/2023

East & Southern Africa

Agroecological Options for Food-Energy-Environment Nexus

National Forestry Resources Research Institute (NaFORRI)

Partners: Bugobero, Namabya, and Namboko district local governments, Mbale Coalition Against Poverty (Mbale CAP), World Agroforestry (ICRAF), International Research Center, Sub-county local governments, Farmer groups, Local NGOs, Community-based research organizations, Extension workers

Duration: 5/2021—5/2023

East & Southern Africa

Agroecological Intensification in Western Kenya

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KARLO)

Partners: University of Nairobi (UoN), Sustainable Income Generating Investment (SINGI), Tembea Youth Centre for Sustainable Development (TEMBEA), and RURAL FARMERS Community Based Organization (CBO)

Duration: 11/2020—11/2023

East & Southern Africa

Capacity Building for Alternative Local Food Systems in East Africa

Slow Food

Duration: 11/2020—11/2021

East & Southern Africa

LUANAR Connectivity Improvement Project

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Partners: World Bank

Duration: 11/2020—11/2021

East & Southern Africa

Botanical Pesticides

University of Greenwich

Partners: NRI, NMAIST, LUANAR, RBGKew

Duration: 9/2020—9/2023

East & Southern Africa

AEI Options

Farm Input Promotions Africa Ltd (FIPs)

Duration: 5/2020—5/2022

East & Southern Africa

OGRIN – Organic Growers’ Research and Information-Sharing Network

OGRIN

Duration: 5/2020—5/2022

East & Southern Africa

Post-harvest handling FRN

National Agricultural Research Organization

Partners: AEATREC, NARO, VEDCO,& Makerere University

Duration: 3/2020—3/2023

East & Southern Africa

Seed Systems Malawi

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)

Partners: Malawi National Plant Genetic Resources Centre, the NGO Self-Help Africa, Michigan State University

Duration: 12/2019—12/2022

East & Southern Africa

FRN Legume Integration

Research Community and Organizational Development Associates

Partners: Singida Environmental Management Agents (SEMA), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), TARI Selian, Ilonga and Naliendele, & NM-AIST

Duration: 12/2019—12/2022

East & Southern Africa

Agri-food systems

Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources (LUANAR)

Partners: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (Government of Malawi)

Duration: 11/2019—11/2020

East & Southern Africa

LSHTM-Agrifood Systems

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Partners: LUANAR

Duration: 11/2019—11/2020

East & Southern Africa

Drylands Farmer Research Network (FRN) Project

University of Eldoret

Partners: Kapkitony Farmer Group, Korellach Parak Farmer Group, Kaporowo Farmer Group

Duration: 9/2019—9/2020

East & Southern Africa

Manor House Agricultural Centre (MHAC) Hub

IDEMS International Community Interest Company

Duration: 8/2019—8/2021

East & Southern Africa

Soils, Cross-Cutting: Phase 2

Colorado State University Foundation

Duration: 5/2019—5/2022

Building and assessing soil health in smallholder systems: research and engagement across the CCRP

East & Southern Africa

FRN-NGO

Agriculture Improvement Support Services

Duration: 5/2019—5/2022

Embedding Option by Context interactions through improved participation and farmer leadership within the western Kenyan NGOs’s Farmer Research Network

East & Southern Africa

Local Language Videos

Access Agriculture

Partners: Agro-Insight, Propina, Fundación Valles

Duration: 5/2019—5/2020

Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

Agroecology Hub – Malawi

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development MoAIWD), ICRISAT -International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, National Shallholder Farmer Association of Malawi (NASFAM), Total Land Care

Duration: 11/2018—11/2021

Agroecology hub for scaling out agro-ecological intensification in maize-legume systems in Malawi

East & Southern Africa

Agroecology Hub – Tanzania

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Partners: RECODA, Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT), Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Tech

Duration: 11/2018—11/2021

Agroecology Hub – Tanzania

East & Southern Africa

FRN-Uganda II

Popular Knowledge Women's Initiative Farmer to Farmer Cooperative Society Limited

Duration: 11/2018—11/2021

FRN-based community phytosanitation initiative for the control of cassava virus diseases in Bukedea district, Eastern Uganda

East & Southern Africa

Push Pull FRN

Institute for Sustainable Development

Duration: 11/2018—11/2019

Harmonizing the push-pull technology to the local farming practice through a farmers’ research network approach

East & Southern Africa

Ekwendeni Agroecology

Soils, Food and Healthy Community Organization

Partners: Western University, Cornell University

Duration: 11/2018—11/2019

Map agroecologial nutrition and gender equity practices and knowledge systems amongst smallholder farmers who have engaged with SFHC in northern Malawi

East & Southern Africa

Post-harvest Uganda III

National Agricultural Research Organization

Duration: 11/2018—11/2019

East & Southern Africa

Cereals FRN Uganda

Volunteer Efforts for Development Concerns (VEDCO)

Partners: Facilitation for Innovations and Sustainable Productivity (FINASP), National Semi-Arid Research Resources Institute, (NaSARRI)

Duration: 8/2018—8/2021

PROMOTING FARMER BASED RESEARCH FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY OF CEREALS IN EASTERN UGANDA

East & Southern Africa