Research Projects

Leg4Dev

Projektlaufzeit: 2020-2025

Region: Ostafrika

Länder: Äthiopien, Tansania, Sambia und Malawi

Agrarökologische Intensivierung des Mais- und Maniokanbaus in Afrika südlich der Sahara mit dem Ziel der Nachhaltigkeit des Wasser-Nahrungsmittel-Energie-Nexus, der Ernährungssicherheit und der Widerstandsfähigkeit der Lebensgrundlagen in Äthiopien, Tansania, Sambia und Malawi.

Leg4Dev

Beteiligte Personen:

• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
• Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch
• PhD Adam M. Adam

SustainSahel

Projektlaufzeit: 2020-2025

Region: Westafrika

Länder: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal

Synergetische Nutzung und Schutz natürlicher Ressourcen für den Lebensunterhalt durch systemische Integration von Pflanzen und Sträuchern und Viehzucht in der Sahelzone. WP7 Szenario-Modellierung von CSL-Systemen

SustainSahel

Beteiligte Personen

• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
• Dr. Eric Koomson

Förderer

• EU 2020

NAPERDIV

Projektlaufzeit: 2021-2024

Region: Europa

Länder: Schweden, Belgien, Frankreich, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien

Naturnaher mehrjähriger Getreideanbau als Modell zur Sicherung der funktionalen Biodiversität für eine zukunftsfähige Landwirtschaft.

NAPERDIV

Beteiligte Personen

• Prof. Dr. Frank Rasche
• Dr. Konrad Martin

Förderer

• DFG, H2020 ERA-Net cofund scheme "BiodivERsA3"

AcroAlliance

SURUMER - Nachhaltiger Kautschukanbau in der Mekong-Region

Teilvorhaben: Projektkoordination, Kohlenstoffdynamik, Wasserhaushalt, Bestäuberdienstleistungen, Naturreservatkonflikte, sozio-ökonomische Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung

Involved persons

• Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlheim
• Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch
• Dipl.-Agr.Biol. Sabine Baumgartner
• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
• Dr. Gerhard Langenberger
• Dr. rer. nat. Konrad Martin
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Sauerborn
• PD Dr. Anna Treydte

Involved institutions

• Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
• Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Agronomy in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Economics: Environmental Economics, Regulatory and Consumer Policy
• Management of Crop Water Stress in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Hohenheim Tropen
• Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)

Further Information

• SURUMER-Nachhaltiger Kautschukanbau in der Mekong-Region

Sponsors

• BMBF

Publications in the course of the project

• Measuring leaf area index in Asian rubber plantations – a challenge
  2017: Cotter, M., Asch, F., Hilger, T., Rajaona, A., Schappert, A., Stuerz, S., Yang, X.
  
• Assessing Ecosystem Services in Rubber Dominated Landscapes in South-East Asia—A Challenge for Biophysical Modeling and Transdisciplinary Valuation
  2017: Thellmann, K., Blagodatsky, S., Häuser, I.,Liu, H., Wang, J., Asch, f., Cadisch, G., Cotter, M.
  
• Identifying Tipping Points in the Supply of Ecosystem Services in Rural Environments of South-East Asia
  2017: Cotter M., Thellmann, K, Baumgartner, S., Cadisch, G.,, Asch, F.
  
• Research-praxis integration in South China–the rocky road to implement strategies for sustainable rubber cultivation in the Mekong Region.
  2016: Aenis, T., Wang, J., Hofmann-Souki, S., Tang, L., Langenberger, G., Cadisch, G., Martin, K., Cotter, M., Krauss, M., Waibel, H.
  
• Replacing rubber plantations by rain forest in Southwest China—who would gain and how much?
  2015: Ahlheim, M., Börger, T., Frör, O.
  
• Chinese urbanites and the preservation of rare species in remote parts of the country - The example of eaglewood
  2014: Ahlheim, M., Frör, O., Langenberger, G., Pelz, S.,
  
• How do Beijing Residents Value Environmental Improvements in Remote Parts of China
  2013: Ahlheim, M., Frör, O., Luo, J., Pelz, S., Jiang, T.
  

SURUMER - TP Kohlenstoffdynamik in den Landnutzungssystemen

Project begin: 01.12.2011

Project end: 30.11.2016

Sponsor mark: 01LL0919A 

SURUMER

Involved persons

• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
• Dr. Sergey Blagodatskiy

Involved institutions

• Agronomy in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)

Further Information

• SURUMER Homepage

Sponsors

• BMBF

Green Revolution 2.0

Laufzeit: 2020-21

Region: South Asia

Länder: Pakistan

Beteiligte Personen

• Dr. Thomas Hilger
• Dr. Frank Rasche

Beteiligte Einrichtungen

• Liège University, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux (Belgium)

Förderer

• DAAD-PPP

AcroWat: Influence of Climate on Variation of Inflorescence Traits in the Neotropical Oilseed Palm Acrocomia aculeata (AcrWat)

Laufzeit:  2018-2021

Region: South America

Länder: Brazil

Beteiligte Personen 

• Prof. Georg Cadisch
• Dr. Thomas Hilger
• M.Sc. Catherine Mayer

Beteiligte Einrichtungen 

• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp (Sweden)

Förderer 

• Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxumbourg

ECOMASA: Eco-efficient management of tropical savannas

Project Period:  2018-2021

Region: Latin America

Countries: Colombia

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• CIAT

Sponsors

• BMBF

BIOINVENT: generic bio-inventory of functional soil microbial diversity in permanent grassland ecosystems across management and climate gradients

Project Period:  2017-2020

Region: Europe

Countries: Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal with Azores

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• SLU
• Agroscope
• University of Lisbon
• University of the Azores

Sponsors

• DFG, H2020, ERA-Net Cofund scheme "BiodivERsA3"

Mercury-AMF: Phytoremediation of mercury contaminated mining sites in Ghana and Burkina Faso with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Subproject 1: Genetic characterization of potential AMF candidates in Ghana and Burkina Faso; Subproject 3: Evaluation of AMF plant systems in Burkina Faso.

Laufzeit:  2019-2022

Region: Africa

Länder: Uganda, Kenya

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Beteiligte Personen

• Dr. Thomas Hilger
• Carolin Callenius (GFE)

Beteiligte Einrichtungen

• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun (Poland)
• World Agroforestry Centre , Naitobi, Kenya

Förderer

• DLR/BMBF

Organic resource and mineral nitrogen driven microbial community dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems with focus on microbially regulated soil nitrogen cycling

Project Period:  2011-2020

Region: Asia, Africa, Europe

Countries: China, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Thailand

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• Khon Kaen University (Thailand)
• University of Lisbon (Portugal)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• IITA
• University of Torino (Italy)

Sponsors

• DAAD

COSCA: agro-ecological opportunities and tailor-made value chain schemes to develop a sustainable cocoa sector in South and Central America

Project Period:  2018-2019

Region: Latin America

Countries: Belgium, Colombia, The Netherlands, USA

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• KU Leuven
• Penn State
• CIAT

Sponsors

• BMBF

HypoWave: household wastewater reuse for resource-efficient hydroponic crop production

Project Period: 2016-2019

Region: Europe

Countries: Germany

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• TU Braunschweig
• ISOE – Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung, das Fraunhofer-Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik (IGB, das Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)
• der Abwasserverband Braunschweig
• die Wolfsburger Entwässerungsbetriebe (WEB)
• ACS-Umwelttechnik
• aquadrat ingenieure (a2i)
• aquatectura, aquatune – Dr. Gebhardt & Co., BIOTEC Biologische Naturverpackungen

Sponsors

• BMBF

Effect of banana root exudates on Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense and indigenous rhizosphere microorganisms

Project Period: 2018

Region: Southern Africa

Countries: South Africa

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• Stellenbosch University

Sponsors

• DFG under the TWAS Cooperation Visits Programme

IITA ‘Achieving sustainable Striga control for poor farmers in Africa’. Biocontrol using Fusarium oxysporum sp strigaea’

Project Period: 2011 - 2014

Region: Africa

Countries: Nigeria, Kenya

IITA

Involved Persons

• PD Dr. Frank Rasche
• Dr. sc. agr. Mary Musyoki
• Dr. sc. agr. Judith Zimmermann
• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch

Involved Institutions

• IITA Nigeria
• KMU Kenya

Sponsors

• Bill+Melinda Gates Foundation

Addressing the challenges of smallholder farming communities: Restoring Degraded Agroecosystems

Project Period: 2013-2017

Region: Central and South America

Countries: Nicaragua, Paraguay

The Goal of the project is to improve livelihoods of the rural poor in the tropics by restoring degraded soils and landscapes to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability in an era of climate change. The Purpose is to restore degraded soils and agroecosystems to enhance the productivity, profitability, resilience, and generation of other ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes in Nicaragua and Paraguay that are highly vulnerable to climate change, through the adoption of improved climate-smart agroforestry and silvopastoral based systems (AFS) by smallholder communities. The Outputs are: (i) Strategies developed for the adaptation of AFS that integrate improved crops, forages, multipurpose trees, and management options for improved productivity, profitability and resilience to restore degraded lands and confront climate change. (ii) Impact of improved AFS strategies assessed at farm and landscape scales for ecosystem services (reduced soil erosion and greenhouse gas emissions, improved soil quality and water dynamics, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity conservation), based on field quantification and modeling of landscape scenarios. (iii) Tools and strategies developed to identify regions in the tropics facing similar constraints for subsequent adaptation and dissemination of eco-efficient (environmentally sustainable and resilient; economically productive, profitable and competitive; and socially equitable and fair) AFS. (iv) Strategies developed and institutional innovation systems implemented for dissemination of improved AFS for suitable regions of Central and South America.

Involved Persons

• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
• Dr. sc. agr. Carsten Marohn

Involved Institutions

• Colombia: CIAT, UNIVALLE
• Nicaragua: Consorcio para Manejo Integrado de Suelos, Catholic Relief Services, Sustainable Natural Resource Management Project
• Paraguay: Grupo Desarrollo Agrícola, International Plant Nutrition Institut

Sponsors

• MAG
• BEAF
• GTZ
• GIZ-KfW

DFG FOR 1695, "Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change-Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale; Coupling pyrolysis with mid-infrared spectroscopy for the parameterisation of soil carbon turnover models on a regional scale"

Project Period: 2012-2019

Region: Europe

Countries: Germany

Based on the Integrated DFG Project PAK 346 (2008-2011), the DFG Research Unit 1695 with its ten subprojects is investigating the effects of global climate change on structure and functions of agricultural landscapes on a regional scale. It is the joint objective of the working groups from Hohenheim, Munich and Giessen to improve process understanding and knowledge of feedbacks between land surface and atmosphere by combining integrated modelling with hitherto unequalled spatial resolution, intensive field measurements and controlled experiments. This will enable us to elaborate projections of landscape development and potential adaptation strategies until 2030. For this purpose, high-resolution climate, land use, and crop growth models will be coupled with socio-economic models forming an advanced land system model. By means of specific sensor systems and remote sensing techniques, data on energy and matter fluxes between the soil-plant system and the atmosphere will be collected in the two study regions Kraichgau and Central Swabian Alb in Southwest Germany. Crops will be exposed to future CO2 and climate conditions in climatic chambers in order to assess the effects on crop yield and yield quality. Data obtained from field measurements and climatic chamber experiments as well as from socio-economic investigations in the study regions will serve for improving model components and for the validation of the novel land system model.

After positive evaluation by DFG, the second funding period starts in February 2015. The Research Unit now consists of eight subprojects. The second phase will terminate in September 2018.

Involved Persons

• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
• Prof. Dr. Torsten Müller
• PD Dr. Frank Rasche

Involved Institutions

• University of Stuttgart
• Leibniz University Hannover
• Humboldt-University Berlin

Sponsors

• DFG