Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
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
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
Beteiligte Personen
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.
Beteiligte Personen
Förderer
- DFG, H2020 ERA-Net cofund scheme "BiodivERsA3"
AcroAlliance
Projektlaufzeit: September 2021 bis August 2025
Region: Länder: Brasilien, Deutschland
AcroAlliance – A Brazilian-German Vision to Foster the Sustainable Use of Local Biodiversity in the Bioeconomy
Macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata), also known as macaw palm, is a versatile, multipurpose palm species, endemic to Latin America with high oil productivity. It easily adapts to a wide range of environments outside of tropical rainforests, even dry, marginal land and is thus a sustainable feedstock and promising source for oils, proteins and fibres for the bioeconomy.
The goal of AcroAllinace is to develop high value refined oils, proteins and dietary fibers from macauba fruits, while addressing major gaps for the development of a sustainable macauba value web.
The project looks at concepts for sustainable valorisation of local biodiversity in a multi-product biorefinery approach using the macauba palm as case study, fostering the transformation into sustainable ioeconomies in Brazil and Germany.
AcroAlliance unites leading institutions and researchers from Brazil and Germany as well as companies that have initiated the cultivation of macauba. Industry partners are also part of the AcroAlliance network.
Beteiligte Personen
Förderer:
- BMLE via FNR and FINEP (Brazil)
Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte
SURUMER - Nachhaltiger Kautschukanbau in der Mekong-Region
Teilvorhaben: Projektkoordination, Kohlenstoffdynamik, Wasserhaushalt, Bestäuberdienstleistungen, Naturreservatkonflikte, sozio-ökonomische Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung
Project begin: 01.12.2011
Project end: 30.11.2016
Sponsor mark: 01LL0919A
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
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
Ziel ist die Untersuchung der räumlichen und zeitlichen Dynamik des Kohlenstoffs in intensiv bewirtschafteten Kautschukplantagen verschiedenen Alters gegenüber einem naturnahen Waldökosystem. Analysiert werden die Kohlenstoffvorräte der Böden und Pflanzen, die gasförmigen Austräge aus den Systemen sowie die lateralen Abflüsse in die Gewässer. Die gewonnenen Daten liefern die Basis für die Parametrisierung, Kalibrierung und Validierung des Simulationsmodells LUCIA (Land Use Change Impact Assessment) für die Kohlenstoffdynamik in Wassereinzugsgebieten und deren Auswirkung auf verschiedene Ökosystemdienstleistungen.
Involved persons
Involved institutions
- Agronomy in the Tropics and Subtropics
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)
Further Information
Sponsors
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
FOR 1695/ Structure and Functions of Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change - Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale (Regional Climate Change)
Project Period: 2008-2011
Region: Europe
Countries: Germany
The Integrated DFG Project ‘Regional Climate Change’ consists of eight subprojects bringing together researchers from Hohenheim and Munich. It aims at clearing up the effects of global climate change on structure and functions of agricultural landscapes on a regional scale. Projections of their development will be made for the period until 2030, taking into consideration different socio-economic scenarios and adaptation processes. In order to meet this joint objective it will be essential to integrate regional climate, land surface, and crop models as well as multi-agent systems into a land system model and to improve the structure and parameterisation of various components. Field measurements and controlled exposure experiments will be conducted in order to improve various model components and their parameterisation and to validate individual models and the coupled model system. Our investigations will be exemplified for two study areas in Southwest Germany: 1) an intensively used agricultural landscape (Kraichgau), characterised by mild climate and moderate precipitation, and 2) an extensively used agricultural landscape (Mittlere Schwäbische Alb), which shows higher precipitation because of orographic effects and lower mean temperatures as a consequence of its altitude. Results and conclusions obtained for these two study regions will be exemplary for extended agricultural landscapes in Germany and Central Europe.
Involved persons
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thilo Streck
- Priv. Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Dieter Wizemann
- Dr. rer. nat. Kirsten Warrach-Sagi
- Dr. Christian Troost
- PD Dr. Frank Rasche
- M.Sc. Reza Mirzaeitalarposhti
- Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Ingwersen
- apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Petra Högy
- Prof. Dr. sc. agr. Stephan Dabbert
- Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger
- Dina Zhunusbayeva
Involved institutions
- Biogeophysics
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)
- Institute of Farm Management
- Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology
- Institute of Crop Science
- Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation
- Hohenheim Research Center for Bioeconomy
- Production Theory and Resource Economics
- Agronomy in the Tropics and Subtropics
- Land Use Economics in the Tropics and Subtropics (Josef G. Knoll Professorship)
- Fertilization and Soil Matter Dynamics
Sponsors
BioTip "Safe operating space in mountainous regions of SE Asia: Identification and management of critical thresholds in land-use intensification and biodiversity (SOS-Uplands)"
Project Period: 2017-2018
Region: Asia
Countries: Thailand (Province Nan)
Involved persons
- Dr. Thomas Hilger
Involved institutions
- Naresuan University, Thailand
- Kasetsart University, Thailand
- Land Development Dept. (LDD), Thailand
- Humboldt University Berlin
Sponsors
- DLR/BMBF
Ellrichshausen-Stiftung, "Underutilized or unprotected? New methods for analyzing diverging perspectives on the large-scale conversion of tropical grassland eco-systems"
Project Period: 2016-2018
Region: Africa
Countries: Kenya, Ethiopia
Involved persons
- Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch
- Christian Bateki
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger
- Prof. Dr. Regina Birner
- Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
- Prof. Dr. Uta Dickhöfer
- Dr. sc. agr. Carsten Marohn
- Dr. Christian Troost
- M.Sc. Benjamin Warth
Involved institutions
- Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO)
- Egerton University, Kenya
- Humboldt University Berlin
Sponsors
- Ellrichshausen-Stiftung
Beans with Benefits "Integrating improved mungbean as a catch crop into the dryland systems of South and Central Asia for increased smallholder farmer income and more sustainable production systems"
Project Period: 2015-2018
Region: Asia
Countries: Uzbekistan, Pakistan
Involved persons
- Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
- Dr. Thomas Hilger
- Ms. Sc. Lisa Pataczek
Involved institutions
- AVRDC 8211; The World Vegetable Center, Taiwan
- Uzbek Research Institute of Plant Industry, Uzbekistan
- Crop Sciences Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan
- University of Agriculture, Faisalbad, Pakistan
Sponsors
- BMZ/GIZ via AVRDC
HealthyLand: Crops for Healthy Diets: Linking Agriculture and Nutrition
Project Period: 2015-2018
Region: East Africa
Countries: Kenya, Uganda, Malawi
Crops for Healthy Diets: Linking Agriculture and Nutrition (HealthyLAND) — ZEU (uni-giessen.de)
Involved persons
- Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
- Dr. Thomas Hilger
- MSc. Sahrah Fischer
Involved institutions
- Makere University Kampala, Uganda
- Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya
- Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Ressources, Malawi
- Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany
Sponsors
- BMEL/BLE