Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale ZusammenarbeitGIZ

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Projects sponsored by GIZ

Jan 2018Dec 2022

Programme for climate-smart livestock systems

In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock is crucial for the livelihoods of more than 80 per cent of households that are classed as poor. As a result of a growing population, increasing income and urbanisation, demand for livestock products is rising steadily. Climate change has a negative impact on...

Jan 2015Dec 2016

mPig: Mobile SMS learning for pigs - An innovative information sharing platform for smallholder pig value chain actors in Uganda

This project will support the CGIAR Research Project on Livestock and Fish by piloting innovative methods to disseminate information to pig value chain actors to increase pig growth and reproductive performance on farm, improve market access for poor value chain actors and ultimately improve food...

Completed

Oct 2013Sep 2015

Piloting climate-adaptive forage seed systems in Ethiopia (FeedSeed)

Project goal: Poor livestock keepers in the project pilot areas will be using improved forage crop seeds in the project pilot areas mitigating feed constraints for systems intensification and leading to adaptation to climate change. 50% of the farmers producing forage seed and 20% of the seed...

Aug 2011Jul 2014

Accelerating CBPP research towards a better vaccine through application of synthetic biology

Objectives: Our long-term perspective is to apply key synthetic biology technologies to gain knowledge for vaccine development against diverse mycoplasma infections; the current project will show proof of principle. Two approaches will be pursued. 1. We propose to transfer the synthetic biology...

Active

Jul 2011Jun 2014

Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro pastoral systems in Africa

Dependency on traditional livestock based livelihood options is increasingly untenable making diversification more and more urgent. Pastoral production systems have been impacted negatively by some of the following. Population pressure, increasing competition from other land uses and resultant...

climate change

Completed

Jun 2010May 2012

Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas

With increasing climate variability farmers strategies to buffer against variations become of predominant importance. This applies even more for pastoral livestock keepers since they earn their livelihood in temporally and spatially highly variable environments under high production risk. In recent...

Completed

May 2008May 2011

Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists to climatic change in West and Southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach.

Project Objectives/Goals: The goal of this project is to increase the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists, who are one of the most vulnerable groups in Africa, to climate variability and the expected effects of future climate change. Outputs: 1. Estimation and documentation of the effects of climate variability and change on the primary productivity of crops, rangelands and livestock, and associated livelihoods impacts.

Active

May 2010Oct 2013

Enhanced control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in sub Saharan Africa through development of better diagnostics and vaccines

Objectives/goals To alleviate negative impacts of CBPP on pastoralist and othe livestock keepers in endemic areas of sub Saharan African countries. Expected outputs Laboratory assay that provides greater sensitivity and specificity than the existing test and that is capable of accurately estimating...

Sep 2006Aug 2009

Preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa

The first phase focused on adapting methods and evaluating the extent of resistance to trypancides in northeast Guinea, southern Mali and southwest Burkina Faso, and testing integrated control strategies that would reduce the risk of emerging drug resistance. The second phase of the project builds...

animal health