AGRA Grants to Date
The
Following are brief descriptions of currently-funded projects, most under
- Agro-dealer Development
- Education for African Crop Improvement
- Fund for the Improvement and Adoption of African Crops
- Seed Production for Africa
- Building Output Markets
- Soil Health Research
Agro-dealer Development
Organisation: International Fertilizer Development Center
Principal Investigator: J J Robert Groot
Purpose: To create a well-functioning and sustainable input supply system in Ghana in order to increase productivity and incomes of rural food producers in Asante, Brong Ahafo, northern and central regions who account or more than half of the country's poor.
Amount: US$2,500,000
Projected Duration: 10/1/2008 – 9/30/2011
Organisation: Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Mr. Caleb Wangia
Purpose: To develop national agrodealer networks to improve access to agricultural inputs by small-scale farmers.
Amount: US$4,473,851
Projected Duration: 6/1/2007 – 5/31/2010
Organisation: Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jason Scarpone
Purpose: To continue activities that develop the business and technical capacity of agro-dealers and regional wholesalers
Amount: US$194,505
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2007
Organisation: Equity Bank Ltd.
Principal Investigator: Henry Karugu
Purpose: For a guarantee fund to facilitate access to credit facilities by poor smallholder farmers, agro-dealers and other players in the smallholder farming value chain in
Amount: US$2,500,000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2012
Organisation: Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, Inc.
Principal Investigator: John H. Costello
Purpose: To enhance productivity and incomes of poor, smallholder farm households in Segou and Koulikoro regions of
Amount: US$2,515,734
Projected Duration: 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2011
Organisation: Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Chapweteka
Purpose: To develop national agro-dealer networks to improve access to agricultural inputs by farmers in
Amount: US$4,275,965
Projected Duration: 6/1/2007 – 5/31/2010
Organisation: International Fertilizer Development Center
Principal Investigator: Mr. Balu L. Bumb
Purpose: To contribute toward increased food security among smallholder farmers in Mozambique through the development of more efficient agricultural inputs market system.
Amount: US$1,509,400
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2012
Organisation: International Fertilizer Development Center
Principal Investigator: J.J. Robert Groot
Purpose: To strengthen existing agro-dealer network and create a new cadre of agro-dealers that have the means and incentives to supply seeds and related technologies for increased productivity, household incomes and welfare of resource-poor farmers in four disadvantaged zones in Nigeria.
Amount: US$3,500,000
Projected Duration: 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2011
Organisation: Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jason Scarpone
Purpose: To develop national agro-dealer networks to improve access to agricultural inputs by farmers in
Amount: US$4,310,615
Projected Duration: 6/1/2007 – 5/31/2010
Organisation: Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mshindo Andrew Msolla
Purpose: To develop a national strategy in order to streamline and develop an agro-dealer distribution system that will cost-effectively and sustainably avail improved inputs to smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania thereby increasing their productivity and incomes
Amount: US$246,046
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2009
Organisation: National Microfinance Bank Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ben Christiaanse
Purpose: For a guarantee fund to facilitate access to credit facilities by agro-dealers serving the needs of smallholder poor farmers in Tanzania.
Amount: US$1,000,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 - 2/28/2011
Organisation: AT Uganda Ltd.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rita Laker-Ojok
Purpose: To strengthen supply and demand for improved seed and other agricultural inputs among smallholder farmers in Uganda by facilitating the development of a viable agro-input dealers' association with strong linkages to private sector importers, input suppliers and smallholder farmers.
Amount: US$1,296,323
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation: Uganda National Agro-input Dealers Association
Principal Investigator: Mr. Thembo Wilfred Mwesigwa
Purpose: To strengthen supply and demand for improved seed and other agricultural inputs in Uganda by facilitating the development (UNADA) of a viable agro-input dealers' association with strong linkages to private sector importers, input suppliers and smallholder farmers.
Amount: US $1,295,800
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere - CARE
Principal Investigator: Mark Vander Vort
Purpose: To provide 91,000 smallholder farm households in remote rural
Amount: US$3,053,362
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2011
Education for African Crop Improvement
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Professor Chemeda Fininsa Gurmessa
Purpose: To train students at M.Sc. level to become competent scientists, educators and researchers in the areas of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Technology, in order to improve capacity in the seed development sector and by extension, increase food security among smallholder farmers of Ethiopia
Amount: US$443,410
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, Ph.D.
Purpose: To establish a West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the
Amount: US$4,922,752
Projected Duration: 6/1/2007 – 6/30/2012
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Professor Margaret Smith
Purpose: To facilitate the start-up and development of WACCI at the
Amount: US$1,696,756
Projected Duration: 6/1/2007 – 3/31/2012
Organisation: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Principal Investigator: Mr. Isaac Kofi Bimpong
Purpose: For use by its Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) to improve drought tolerance of rice through within-species gene transfer.
Amount: US$35,200
Projected Duration: 9/1/2007 – 4/30/2009
Organisation: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Akromah
Purpose: To catalyze the development and adoption of improved crop varieties and production of good quality seed adapted to smallholder farmer conditions in the West Africa sub-region, through supporting ten M.Sc. level training in plant breeding and seed science.
Amount: US$387,000
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2010
Organisation: University of Ghana
Principal Investigator: Dr. Eric Yirenkyi Danquah
Purpose: To provide supplementary funding toward the Establishment of a West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana, Legon (UGL).
Amount: US$859,107
Projected Duration: 6/1/2007 - 5/31/2012
Organisation: Moi University
Principal Investigator: Professor Miriam Kinyua
Purpose: To provide training in crop improvement to young scientists from Kenya and other selected countries in eastern and southern Africa.
Amount: US$238,400
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2009
Organisation: University of Ibadan
Principal Investigator: Dr. Victor O. Adetimirin
Purpose: To train 10 students at M.Sc. level in Crop Sciences to effectively address smallholder farmers' crop yield problems and increase crop productivity in West Africa.
Amount: US$394,042
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010
Organisation: Ahmadu Bello University
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mohammed F. Ishiyaku
Purpose: To train ten young M.Sc. level scientists who can develop improved crop varieties adapted to the agro-ecologies of West Africa and suitable for use by smallholder farmers, in order to increase food security and household incomes.
Amount: US$363,390
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Organisation: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Principal Investigator: Professor Mark Laing
Purpose: To enable the African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) to continue training young scientists from eastern and southern Africa in crop improvement and to collaborate with other breeding programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Amount: US$8,069,016
Projected Duration: 1/1/2007 – 12/31/2011
Sub-Saharan
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Ms. Mary Anderson Ochs
Purpose: For use by the Albert R. Mann Library to avail The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library to sub-Saharan African universities and public agricultural research institutions.
Amount: US$ 162,500
Projected Duration: 9/1/2007 – 8/31/2008
Organisation: Cornell University, United States
Principal Investigator: Dr. David J. Skorton
Purpose: To enhance the capability of plant breeding Ph.D. students of the African Center for Crop Improvement by providing technical assistance for thesis proposal review and library and technological services, so as to ensure high quality services aimed at addressing food security needs of the small holder farmer.
Amount: US$399, 719
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2011
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Cornell L. Rweyemamu
Purpose: To ensure production of improved crop varieties adapted to smallholder farmer conditions in Tanzania through advanced training of M.Sc. level students in Plant Breeding and related crop improvement fields
Amount: US$401,945
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Edema
Purpose: To ensure production of improved crop varieties adapted to poor farmer conditions through advanced training for M.Sc. in Plant Breeding for ten Ugandan and Rwandan nationals and to strengthen the Plant Breeding research program through the establishment of required facilities at
Amount: US$400, 000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2010
Fund for the Improvement and Adoption of African Crops
Organisation: Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles
Principal Investigator: Dr. Roger Zangre
Crop: Millet
Purpose: To increase income and reduce poverty of smallholder farmers through the development and the promotion of open pollinated and hybrid varieties of pearl millet for the arid and semi-arid zones of Burkina Faso.
Amount: US$184,993
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2011
Organisation: Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
Principal Investigator: Bedada Girma
Crop: Wheat
Purpose: To develop and disseminate improved, higher-yielding, farmer-preferred, adapted wheat varieties with tolerance to wheat stem rust for the moisture stress and marginal areas of
Amount: US$244,000
Projected Duration: 6/1/2008 – 5/31/2011
Organisation: Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
Principal Investigator: Dr. Erenso Degu Gutema
Purpose: To develop and disseminate high-yielding sorghum hybrids resistant to biotic and a-biotic stresses for smallholder farmers in Ethiopia and foster linkages between the national research institution, farmers and private seed companies so as to improve food security and livelihoods among poor farm families.
Amount: US$240,000
Projected Duration: 10/1/2008 - 9/30/2011
Organisation: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Joe Manu-Aduening
Crop: Cassava
Purpose: To develop improved cassava varieties resistant to common pests and diseases and possessing the main farmer-preferred traits.
Amount: US$179,845
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2011
Organisation: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Savanna Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mashark Seidu Abdulai
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop maize varieties suitable for use by poor smallholder farmers of the
Amount: US$184,480
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2011
Organisation: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hans K.Adu-dapaah
Crop: Cowpea
Purpose: To improve cowpea yields among poor smallholder farmers by introgression of genes for flower thrips and Cercospora leaf spot-resistance in farmer-preferred varieties.
Amount: US$184,860
Projected Duration: 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2011
Organisation: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Mr. Manfred B. Ewool
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop higher-yielding, improved hybrid maize varieties for the forest and forest-transition zones of
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2011
Organisation: Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Kamau
Crop: Cassava
Purpose: To breed early bulking varieties of cassava, suitable for the different agro-ecological zones found in the three cassava growing regions of the central, western, and coast provinces of Kenya.
Amount: US$184,222
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. Clement Kamau Karari
Crop: Sorghum
Purpose: To develop sorghum hybrids and a hybrid seed delivery system to promote adoption in small-holder farming communities in semi-arid
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 4/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Ms. Laura Karanja
Crop: Sweet Potato
Purpose: To develop early-maturing, high-yield sweet potato varieties with resistance to important viruses and pests, and possessing improved food quality, nutrition, storability, and wide adaptability.
Amount: US$185,365
Projected Duration: 7/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Professor Samuel Gudu
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop maize varieties tolerant to low phosphorous and aluminum toxicity for growth in acid soils of
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Gichuru Gethi
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop and promote new maize hybrids which are drought tolerant, resistant to storage pests and efficient in nutrient use, for farmers in the dry and humid regions of
Amount: US $184,984
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 – 10/31/2010
Organisation: Farm Input Promotions Africa Limited
Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Douglas Seward
Crop: Maize, beans, cassava, sweet potatoes
Purpose: To enable poor, smallholder farmers in Kenya and eastern Uganda improve their farm productivity by: (1) facilitating access to improved varieties through promotional activities at farmer and stockist levels; and (2) disseminating improved varieties of maize, beans, cassava and sweet potatoes through linkages created with available seed companies to offer seed in affordable quantities.
Amount: US $238,600
Projected Duration: 6/1/2008 – 5/31/2010
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Gichuru Gethi
Purpose: For use by KARI-Katumani to enhance its irrigation facilities in order to improve the efficiency of the crop improvement research process and assure provision of better crop varieties to resource-poor farmers of eastern
Amount: US $188,697
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2009
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Mr. Philip Onyimbo Kwena
Purpose: To develop new, high-yielding maize varieties with broad adaptation and combined multiple stress resistance for mid altitude zones of western Kenya, in order to improve food security and household incomes for smallholder farmers
Amount: US $182,600
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2011
Organisation: Malawi Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ibrahim R. M. Benesi, Ph.D.
Crop: Cassava
Purpose: To develop improved cassava varieties with high-yield potential, disease resistance and good adaptation to Malawian farming conditions.
Amount: US$184,470
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Malawi Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Principal Investigator: Dr. Geoffrey Kananji
Crop: Bean varieties
Purpose: To enhance farmers' livelihoods and improve food security in Malawi by developing new improved bean varieties with bruchid resistance, high yield potential and farmer preferred traits.
Amount: US$177,320
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation: Institute d’Economie Rurale du Mali (the national agricultural research institute in
Principal Investigator: Mr. Fousseyni Cisse
Crop: Rice
Purpose: To develop high-yield rice varieties with drought tolerance and adaptability to the different rice ecosystems in
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 2/28/2010
Organisation: Institute d’Economie Rurale du Mali
Principal Investigator: Abdoulaye Gaoussou Diallo
Crop: Sorghum
Purpose: To develop the first set of commercially viable, farmer preferred Guinea-race sorghum hybrids for multiplication and commercialisation to sorghum farmers in the southern Sahelian belt of
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 2/28/2010
Organisation: Institute d’Economie Rurale du Mali
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ntji Coulibaly
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop high-yielding, drought- and disease-tolerant maize hybrids in
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 4/1/2007 – 12/31/2009
Organisation: Institute d’Economie Rurale du Mali
Principal Investigator: Mr. Moussa Daouda Sanogo
Crop: Millet
Purpose: To develop high-yielding, photosensitive and downy mildew tolerant millet hybrids for use by poor smallholder farmers in the Sahelian and Sudanian zones of
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2011
Organisation: Institute of Rural Economy
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mamadou M’Bare Coulibaly
Crop: Rice
Purpose: To develop and evaluate high yielding inter-specific and intra-specific rice varieties for poor smallholder farmers with tolerance to Rice Yellow Mottle Virus and Bacterial Leaf Blight and adapted to the irrigated ecology in Mali through participatory methods.
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation: Institute of Rural Economy
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mamadou Toure
Crop: Cowpea
Purpose: To develop improved, Striga-resistant cowpea varieties which are adapted to the Sahelian zone of Mali, and which possess other farmer-preferred traits.
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2011
Organisation: Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Mocambique
Principal Investigator: Mr. David Mariote
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop maize varieties resistant to downy mildew and maize streak virus in order to increase maize yields for smallholder farmers in Mozambique.
Amount: US$188,050
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation: Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Mocambique
Principal Investigator: Joaquim A. Mutaliano
Crop: Sorghum
Purpose: To reduce hunger and improve food security among poor, smallholder farmers of northern, southern and central Mozambique, by developing and promoting the use of sorghum varieties with improved grain yield and resistance to diseases, pests and drought.
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation: Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Mocambique
Principal Investigator: Mr. Marcos Langa
Crop: Rice
Purpose: To develop improved rice varieties that combine high yield, good grain quality, resistance to rice yellow mottle virus and bacterial blight and resistance to grain shattering and lodging for smallholder farmers of southern Mozambique
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2011
Organisation: International Potato Center
Principal Investigator: Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade
Crop: Sweet potato
Purpose: To increase the consumption of beta-carotene-rich sweetpotato varieties among populations of drought prone areas of Zambezia, Gaza and Maputo
Amount: US$ 414,116
Projected Duration: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Organisation: Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Mocambique
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jose Moderafa Magia
Crop: Rice
Purpose: To develop and disseminate early-maturing, drought-resistant rice varieties which possess farmer-preferred traits for the lowland ecosystem of central and northern Mozambique, so as to improve food security among smallholder farmers and enhance their livelihoods.
Amount: US$183,500
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 11/30/2011
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Souley Soumana
Crop: Sorghum
Purpose: To boost the productivity and incomes of smallholder farmers in Niger, through accelerated development and diffusion of drought tolerant sorghum hybrids
Amount: US$184,764
Projected Duration: 10/27/2008 – 4/26/2012
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrew A. Efisue
Crop: Rice
Purpose: To develop improved rice varieties with resistance to important biotic and environmental stress in
Amount: US$ 193,270
Projected Duration: 8/1/2007 – 8/31/2010
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Mr. Augustine Musoni
Crop: Bush and Climbing beans
Purpose: To assist small-scale farmers in Rwanda increase their food security and reduce hunger by developing and promoting new, improved, high-yielding, early maturing, drought-tolerant, disease-resistant varieties of bush and climbing beans.
Amount: US$151,725
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Mr. Claver Ngaboyisongai
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To facilitate the promotion and dissemination of improved, farmer-preferred, stress tolerant maize varieties aimed at improving food security among smallholder farmers of the mid and high altitude areas of Rwanda
Amount: US$ 139,836
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2011
Organisation:
Principal Investigator
Crop: Maize
Purpose: For use by the African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) to develop unique maize source germplasm for African ecosystems.
Amount: US$185,100
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 – 12/31/2010
Sub-Saharan
Organisation: Forum for Organic Resources Management and Agricultural Technologies
Principal Investigator: Mr. Musa N. Omare
Purpose: To exploit the use of Information Communication Technologies to provide a platform where scientific information on agricultural research, products, technologies and policy for the improvement of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa will be availed and disseminated, resulting in improved crop productivity for resource poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Amount: US$79,666
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2009
Organisation: Division of Research and Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nick Lyimo
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To expand the number and adaptation of hybrid maize varieties available to small-holder farmers in
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Division of Research and Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Principal Investigator: Dr. Catherine Kuwite
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop and release high-yielding maize varieties that are resistant to Northern Leaf Blight, Gray Leaf Spot, Maize Streak Virus, and Common Rust.
Amount: US$184,445
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Division of Research and Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rose Mongi
Crop: Common Bean
Purpose: To develop two farmer-preferred varieties of common bean that are high yielding and disease resistant.
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Division of Research and Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Principal Investigator: Dr. Geoffrey Mkamilo
Crop: Cassava
Purpose: To breed disease and pest resistant, and early root yield genes into farmer-preferred cassava varieties and to link surplus harvests to new growth markets.
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Phinehas Tukamuhabwa
Crop: Soybean
Purpose: To expedite seed multiplication and dissemination of two released, popular soybean varieties as well as to develop new, superior soybean rust-resistant varieties.
Amount: US$184,900
Projected Duration: 7/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stanley Nkalubo
Crop: Dry Beans
Purpose: To develop and select market acceptable high yielding bean genotypes by introgressing anthracnose resistance genes into preferred susceptible varieties thereby resulting in increased bean yields.
Amount: US$176,955
Projected Duration: 3/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Orawu
Crop: Cowpea
Purpose: To develop high-yielding varieties that are resistant to cowpea viruses for use in northern and eastern
Amount: US$185,000
Projected Duration: 7/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Victoria Seeds Limited
Principal Investigator: Dr. Grace Abalo
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To develop and release disease-resistant maize varieties for poor farmers in the mid- and high-altitude areas of
Amount: US$214,577
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 – 12/31/2010
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Ms. Annet Namayanja
Crop: Bean
Purpose: To reduce hunger and poverty in
Amount: US $133,430
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 – 10/31/2010
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: David Okello Kalule
Crop: Groundnut
Purpose: To improve groundnut yields of smallholder farmers in North and North-eastern
Amount: US$169,500
Projected Duration: 5/1/2008 – 4/30/2011
Organisation:
Principal Investigator: Mr. Francisco Miti
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To increase the on-farm productivity and reduce rural poverty by availing to resource-poor farmers of Zambia new improved maize varieties that are resistant to drought and low nitrogen.
Amount: US$$185,000
Projected Duration: 9/1/2008 – 8/31/2011
Seed Production for Africa
Organisation: Neema Agricole Du Faso
Principal Investigator: Abdoulaye Sawadogo
Purpose: To avail improved seeds of maize, rice and cowpea, at affordable prices to resource-poor small-scale farmers in the western and South-western regions of
Amount: $143,632
Projected Duration: 6/15/2008 -- 6/14/2010
Organisation: Societe Agro-Productions
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jonas Ouboli Yogo
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seed of maize, rice, sorghum and cowpea for smallholder farmers in the Central and Southern Regions of Burkina Faso, so as to increase food security and improve livelihoods.
Amount: $137,340
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Organisation: Anno Agro-Industry P.L.C.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Tesfaye Kumsa
Purpose: To increase production and dissemination of improved seed to effectively serve the poor small-scale farmers of
Amount: $157,600
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 -- 2/28/2010
Organisation: Savanna Seed Services Company Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Patrick Adingtingha Apullah
Purpose: To avail seed of maize, soybean, sorghum, cowpea, rice and groundnut at an affordable price to resource-poor farmers in three administrative regions of northern
Amount: $149,973
Projected Duration: 6/15/2008 -- 6/14/2010
Organisation: Alpha Seed Enterprise
Principal Investigator: Mrs. Felicia Ewool
Purpose: To provide seeds of newley released hybrid and open-pollinated maize varieties to poor smallholder farmers of the forest and forest-transition maize growing regions of Ghana, as well as educate them on the importance of using improved seeds in an effort to enhance their productivity.
Amount: $150,000
Projected Duration: 10/1/2008 -- 9/30/2010
Organisation: M&B Seeds and Agricultural Services Ghana Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Benjamin Anani Kwaku Kemetse
Purpose: To enhance farm productivity and increase incomes of smallholder farmers of the Volta region of Ghana through provision of high yielding improved seeds of maize, soybean, cowpea, rice, groundnut and vegetables; and education on the use of these seeds.
Amount: $149,765
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2012
Organisation: Drylands Seeds Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ngila Kimotho
Purpose: To produce, promote and distribute improved seed varieties for use by small-scale farmers in arid and semi-arid areas of
Amount: $150,000
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 -- 12/31/2009
Organisation: Leldet Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Nigel Leakey
Purpose: To produce, promote and distribute improved seed of orphan crops for use by small-scale farmers in arid and semi-arid areas of
Amount: $163,000
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 -- 11/1/2008
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. Reuben M. Otsyula
Crop: Bean
Purpose: To produce and disseminate seed of improved high-yielding and disease resistant bean varieties.
Amount: US$163,693
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 – 10/31/2010
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: B. Musyimi Muli
Crop: Cassava
Purpose: To enable small-scale farmers in the Coastal Province of Kenya to easily access high-yielding and disease resistant new cassava varieties as a means to achieve increased food security, household income and a better livelihood.
Amount: US$183,316
Projected Duration: 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2011
Organisation: Dave Westphal
Principal Investigator: Mr. Dave Westphal
Crop: Maize
Purpose: To assist small and medium-sized seed companies in Africa to develop hybrid maize seed production and processing.
Amount: US$102,400
Projected Duration: 2/15/2009 - 4/30/2009
Organisation: Funwe Farm Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jon Lane
Purpose: To produce, promote and distribute hybrid seed for use by small-scale farmers in
Amount: $138,073
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 -- 10/31/2011
Organisation: Seed-Tech Company
Principal Investigator: Mr. Frank Samidu
Purpose: To produce, promote and distribute improved seed varieties for use by poor small-scale farmers in
Amount: $150,000
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 -- 10/31/2009
Organisation: Association of Smallholder Seed Multiplication Action Groups
Principal Investigator: Mr. Abiel K. H. Banda
Purpose: To enable smallholder farmers in Malawi increase their productivity, food security and household incomes through use of improved seeds at affordable costs and from nearby sources
Amount: $163,450
Projected Duration: 111/1/2008 -- 10/31/2010
Organisation: Faso Kaba
Principal Investigator: Ms. Maimouna Coulibaly
Crop: multiple
Purpose: To produce, promote and distribute improved seed varieties for use by poor small-scale farmers in
Amount: US$208,500
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 – 12/31/2009
Organisation: Semente Perfeita Limitada
Principal Investigator: Mr. John Makoni
Crop: multiple
Purpose: To support activities aimed at facilitating production and distribution of high yielding, quality seed suitable for use by poor small-scale farmers in southern
Amount: US$199,195
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 – 10/30/2009
Organisation: Insumos Agricultura e Insumos Agricultura e Pecuária
Principal Investigator: Mr. Alfredo Azarias Dique
Crop: improved seed
Purpose: To produce, promote and distribute improved seed varieties for use by poor small-scale farmers in
Amount: US$129,300
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 – 12/31/2009
Organisation: Entreprise Semencière ALHERI
Principal Investigator: Mr. Issoufou Maizama
Purpose: To assist smallholder farmers increase their productivity through accessing certified seed at an affordable price and creating awareness about the benefits of using improved seeds
Amount: $139,984
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Organisation: Jirkur Seed Producers Cooperative Society
Principal Investigator: Mr. Mohammed Wakawa
Crop: Maize, rice, cowpea, soybean
Purpose: To supply resource-poor smallholder farmers or southern Borno state with improved seeds of maize, rice, cowpea, and soybean at an affordable price, leading to increased food productivity and reduced poverty.
Amount: US$172,000
Projected Duration: 6/1/2008 – 5/31/2010
Organisation: Manoma Seeds Ltd.
Principal Investigator: Mr. Amos Abba
Crop: Maize, rice, soybean
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seed of maize, rice and soybean for smallholder farmers in five north-western Nigerian States, in order to increase food security among rural households.
Amount: US$148,023
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Organisation: Rwanda Seed Company Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Alphonse Rukeribuga
Crop: Maize, beans, sorghum, cassava, soybean
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seed of maize, beans, sorghum, cassava and soybean to poor, smallholder farming families in the eastern province of Rwanda so as to achieve increased yields, food security and better livelihoods.
Amount: US$121,900
Projected Duration: 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Cooperatives des Agriculteurs des Mais dans la Region des Volcans
Principal Investigator: Thaddee Nibishaka
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seed to poor farmers in the northern
Amount: US$102,300
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2010
Sub-Saharan
Organisation: Aline Funk
Principal Investigator: Aline O'Connor Funk
Purpose: To provide business development services to SEPA grantees and assist startup and SME seed companies in financial planning and development of management, operations and marketing strategies.
Amount: US$152,680
Projected Duration: 3/7/2008 – 3/6/2009
Organisation: Rob Tripp
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert B. Tripp
Purpose: To carry out an analysis of the overall structure, strengths and weaknesses of the formal seed delivery systems in key PASS countries of
Amount: US$35,302
Projected Duration: 2/1/2008 – 3/31/2008
Organisation: Market Matters Inc.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Krisztina Tihanyi
Purpose: For use by the Seeds of Development Program to enhance the capacity of private seed companies for product development, strategic market planning and management, and networking, to explore opportunities for initiatives aimed at enabling them to better serve smallholder farming communities in eastern and southern Africa with seed of improved and adapted crop varieties.
Amount: US$209,220
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2009
Organisation: Aline Funk
Principal Investigator: Aline O'Connor Funk
Purpose: To provide business development services to SEPA grantees and to assist start-up and SME seed companies in financial planning and development of management, operations and marketing strategies.
Amount: US$211,550
Projected Duration: 3/1/2009 - 2/28/2010
Organisation: Division of Research and Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Principal Investigator: Mr. Haji Hamid Saleh
Crop: Cassava
Purpose: For use by Kizimbani Research Station to improve cassava production and productivity through participatory multiplication and dissemination using disease-free cassava planting materials.
Amount: US$157,500
Projected Duration: 10/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: Tanseed International Ltd.
Principal Investigator: Mr. Isaka M. Mashauri
Crop: Maize, pigeon pea and sesame
Purpose: To produce, promote and disseminate improved seed of maize, pigeon peas and sesame for use by poor small-holder farmers in Tanzania
Amount: US$168,843
Projected Duration: 11/1/2007 – 10/31/2009
Organisation: Zanobia Seeds Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Sardul Singh Mand
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seed varieties of orphan crops to poor small-holder farmers in
Amount: US$154,100
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2010
Organisation: Krishna Seed Company Limited
Principal Investigator: Mr. Rajesh Atya Karavadra
Purpose: To reduce hunger and poverty among poor farmers of
Amount: US$151,000
Projected Duration: 3/1/2008 – 2/28/2010
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Wilberforce Tushemereirwe
Crop: Banana
Purpose: To multiply banana-planting materials through tissue culture and establish demonstration plots as multiplication centers.
Amount: US$263,000
Projected Duration: 7/1/2007 – 6/30/2010
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Ugen
Crop: Bean
Purpose: To improve access to high yielding bean varieties to poor smallholder farmers of Kisoro, Mbarara, Kabarole and Kamwenge districts of Uganda through farmer-led community seed enterprises thereby enabling them to have increased yields, food and nutrition security and increased household income.
Amount: US$156,341
Projected Duration: 6/1/2008 – 5/31/2011
Organisation: Busia Women Producers Association
Principal Investigator: Ms Karen Sylvia Nasubo
Crop: Groundnuts and cassava
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seed of groundnuts and cassava to smallholder farmers in Busia District of Uganda, so as to improve household food security and increase incomes
Amount: US$152,073
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010
Organisation: African Agricultural Capital
Principal Investigator: Tom Adlam
Purpose: To support the African Seed Investment Fund, an investment fund established to provide investment capital at below-market rates for the production of large quantities of seed which will allow poor, smallholder farmers to vastly increase crop yields, reducing hunger and poverty in eight
countries of East and southern Africa.
Amount: US$12,000,000
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2013
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Julius Mukalazi
Purpose: To produce and disseminate improved seeds of cassava, beans, ground nuts and rice to smallholder farmers in West Nile Region of Uganda, so as to improve household food security and increase income.
Amount: US$173,000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2012
Organisation: Kamano Seed Company Ltd
Principal Investigator: Mr. Desire Frans Horemans
Crop: Multiple
Purpose: To produce and supply improved seeds of maize, beans, sorghum, groundnuts and cowpeas to small-scale farmers of Zambia to enable them improve their productivity and incomes thereby reducing poverty
Amount: US$166,300
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010
Building Output Markets
Kenya
Organisation: TechnoServe, Inc
Principal Investigator: Fred Ogana
Purpose: To enhance food security and increase incomes of smallholder banana farmers in eastern and central provinces of Kenya by linking them to markets
Amount: US$896,033
Projected Duration: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Organisation: Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rose W. Njeru
Purpose: To scale out the benefits of the tissue culture banana through improved production efficiency of high quality banana fruit that can fetch competitive market prices.
Amount: US$585,000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2011
Uganda
Organisation: Uganda Development Trust Limited
Principal Investigator: Joan Rutaroh
Purpose: To provide business support to Small and Medium size Enterprises that buy raw materials from smallholder farmers resulting in their sustainable growth and increased smallholder farmer incomes.
Amount: US$250,000
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2010
Sub-Saharan
Organisation: International Livestock Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Dr. Steve Staal
Purpose: For costs of a conference aimed at synthesizing lessons learned on market development for poor farmers in Africa from the Rockefeller Foundation and other donor programs, to facilitate the development of a strategy for improving markets for poor farmers in support of the Africa Green Revolution
Amount: US$449,545
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010
Soil Health Research
Kenya
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Mr. David Mbakaya
Purpose: To increase the use of lime and other soil acidity management technologies on smallholder farms in order to increase productivity and incomes of smallholder farmers of western Kenya.
Amount: US$510,003
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2012
Sub-Saharan
Organisation: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Principal Investigator: Dr. Pedro Sanchez
Purpose: To provide free access to a reliable, flexible and dynamic soil health information service for the ultimate benefit of the African smallholder farm family
Amount: US$2,930,330
Projected Duration: 11/1/2008 - 10/31/2012
Uganda
Organisation: National Agricultural Research Organisation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Crammer Kayuki Kaizzi
Purpose: For use by the National Agricultural Research Laboratories to develop region and crop specific recommendations that will result in improved targeting of fertilizer for increased productivity among smallholder farmers in Uganda.
Amount: US$396,380
Projected Duration: 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2012