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A strategy for reviving the vital breadbasket of the Democratic Republic of Congo through Integrated soil fertility management coupled to resilient germplasm in cassava-based systems

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Name (native language): Une stratégie pour revaloriser le panier vital de la ménagère de la R.D. Congo à travers une gestionintégrée de la fertilité du sol couplée à une conservation du germplasm dans les systèmes de cultures à base de manioc
Coordinating organisation: Division Soil and Water Management
Description: Project objectives are:
To improve food security and human nutrition of rural populations in the two provinces while sustaining the natural resource bases
To strengthen human and equipment capital through training and services provided by the project.
To arrest resource degradation and enhance food security and human nutrition through widespread adoption of sustainable resource management technologies for cassava-based systems based on improved varieties and system diversification
To build local stakeholders’ capacity to apply and disseminate improved agricultural technologies with a special focus on strengthening research-for-development capacity at the target universities through degree-related training and improved laboratory capacity
Promotors:
Prof. R. MERCKX (K.U.LEUVEN)
Prof. S KACHAKA (UNIKIN)
Prof. Dr. M. BITIJULA MAHIMBA (Université Catholique de Bukavu)
Budget (in &euro): 308000
Start: 2005-05-01
End: 2010-04-30
Categories
ARD-theme: plant nutrition
plant protection/IPM
soil fertility
Target country: Congo, Dem. Rep.
Commodity: plant products (agroforest)
Ecosystem: tropical
Activity: training
research
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Donor organisations: 1
Participating organisations: 3
Programmes funding: 1


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