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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 |
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| 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 |
| Last editing: | 2006-06-22 16:28:27 |