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Partners — TSBF-Africa

NARS

Kenyatta University, Kenya, VLIR project on food security in Central Kenya; RF soybean project; JKUAT, Kenya, RF banana project; NARO, Uganda and LZARDI, Tanzania, DfID project on striga management in the Lake Victoria Basin; NARO, Uganda, RF project on exploring soybean potential in East Africa; KARI, Kenya, DfID project on striga management in the Lake Victoria Basin; University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, NSF project on soil aggregation; Soil Research Institute, Ghana, NSF project on soil aggregation; INERA, D R Congo, ISAR, Rwanda, DGDC project on legume integration in systems in Central Africa; DGDC project on banana management in Central Africa; ISABU and IRAZ, Burundi, DGDC project on banana management in Central Africa; University of Kinshasa and University of Bukavu, D R Congo, VLIR project on cassava in D R Congo; Forest Dept of CIRAD, France, Kenyan Forestry Research Institute, Kenya, FOFIFA, Madagascar INCO DEV FOREAIM on Bridging restoration and multi-functionality in degraded forest landscape of Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean islands; INERA-DPF, Burkina Faso and Forest Dept of CIRAD, France, project CORAF/Gomme Arabique on Impact de l'inoculation par les rhizobiums sur la productivite de gommeraies plantees ou naturelles et la dynamique de facteurs lies au fonctionnement biologique des sols sous-jacents; INERA, Burkina Faso, ISRA, Senegal, FOFIFA, Madagascar, project ANR/MICROBES project on microbial observatories for the management of soil ecosystem services in the tropic; KEFRI, Kenya, Forest Dept of CIRAD, France and Grassland Research Station, Zimbabwe, project INCO DEV SAFSYS on Symbionts in agroforestry systems: what are the long-term impacts of inoculation of Calliandra calothyrsus and its intercrops; Antananarivo University, Madagascar and University of Makerere, Uganda project INCO DEV FOREAIM on Bridging restoration and multi-functionality in degraded forest landscape of Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean islands; University of Niamey, Niger and University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal, project CORAF/Gomme Arabique on Impact de l'inoculation par les rhizobiums sur la productivite de gommeraies plantees ou naturelles et la dynamique de facteurs lies au fonctionnement biologique des sols sous-jacents; Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques du Niger (INRAN); Niamey/Niger; Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER), Mali; ARS, Chilanga Zambia (Moses Mwale); EARO (Ethiopian Agricultural Research organization), Ethiopia; Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria; ARI Mlingano, Tanzania; Egerton University, Kenya; University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya (Rosemary Atieno); Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (Elizabeth K. Balirwa, Jonny Mugisha, John Baptiste, Mary Silver); Lake Basin Development Authority (Kenya) (Amos Ameya); Selian Agricultural Research Institute (Tanzania) (Sossi Kweka and Festo Ngulu); Southern Regions Research Institute, Ethiopia. IIAM, Mozambique project on Linking Farmers to Markets.

Advanced Research Institutes

J Six, University of California Davis, USA, NSF project on soil aggregation; R Merckx, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, VLIR project on food security in Central Kenya; E Tollens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, DGDC project on legume integration in systems in Central Africa; R Swennen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, DGDC project on banana management in Central Africa; S Recous, INRA, France, VLIR project on food security in Central Kenya; K Giller, WUR, Netherlands, EU project on AfricaNUANCES; L Brussaard, L Stroosnijder, WUR, Netherlands, WOTRO project on soil fauna and soil aggregation; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France, project CORAF/Gomme Arabique on Impact de l'inoculation par les rhizobiums sur la productivite de gommeraies plantees ou naturelles et la dynamique de facteurs lies au fonctionnement biologique des sols sous-jacents; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France, Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, UK' University of Norway, project INCO DEV FOREAIM on Bridging restoration and multi-functionality in degraded forest landscape of Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean islands; GSF-Munich, Germany and Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France project ANR/MICROBES project on microbial observatories for the management of soil ecosystem services in the tropic; Centre of Ecology and Hydrology and, Scottish Agricultural College UK, project INCO DEV SAFSYS on Symbionts in agroforestry systems: what are the long-term impacts of inoculation of Calliandra calothyrsus and its intercrops; BIOFORSK Soil, Water and Environment, Norway; JIRCAS (Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences), Japan; Wye College, University of London (Colin Poulton); Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Atsuyuki Asami); Ishikawa Prefectural University, Japan (Hiroshi Tsujii); University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany (Roll A.E. Mueller); Universite Catholique de Louvain (Eric F. Tollens); Swedish Univ. Agric. Sci (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden (Olof Andrén), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna Project on Linking Farmaers to Markets.

International Agricultural Research Centers

IITA, Uganda, RF project on ISFM for bananas; DGDC project on banana management in Central Africa; IITA, Nigeria (Alene Arega, David Chikoye, Robert Abaidoo); ICIPE and CIMMYT Kenya, DfID project on striga management in the Lake Victoria Basin; CIMMYT, Kenya, AATF project on striga management in Western Kenya; IFDC, Togo, WOTRO project on soil fauna and soil aggregation; INIBAP, Uganda, DGDC project on banana management in Central Africa; ICRAF, Kenya, RF project on soil fertility gradients and site-specific soil fertility management; ICRISAT, Niger; Centre d'Etude Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation à la Sécheresse (CERAAS/ISRA); West African Rice Development Authority (Patrick M. Kormawa); African Highlands Initiative, Ethiopia.

International and Regional Agricultural Research Centers

CIMMYT, Kenya: Hugo de Groote, Mirjam Pulleman; CIP, Kenya: Charles Crissman; ICRAF, Kenya: Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Noordin Qureish, Bashir Jama, Richard Coe, Keith Shepherd; ICRISAT, Kenya: Ade Freeman; ICRISAT, Mali: Tabo; ICRISAT, Niger: Aboudoulaye, Abdoulaye and Mahamane; ICRISAT, Zimbabwe: John Dimes; IITA Ibadan, Nigeria- Abdou; IITA Uganda: Piet van Asten, Cliff Gold, Suleiman Okech; ILRI, Kenya: Patti Kristjanson, Steve Staal, Philip Thornton, Mario Herrero, Dannie Romney; ICIPE: Zia Khan; AATF: Mpoko Bokanga; West African Rice Development Authority - Patrick M. Kormawa; International Institute for Tropical Agriculture - Alene Arega, David Chikoye, Robert Abaidoo.

NGOs

FIPS, Kenya, RF project on soil fertility gradients and site-specific soil fertility management; SACRED-Africa, Kenya, RF soybean project; Diobass and Food for the Hungry, D R Congo, DGDC project on legume integration in systems in Central Africa; DGDC project on banana management in Central Africa; UR2PI, Congo, ANR/MICROBES project on microbial observatories for the management of soil ecosystem services in the tropic; Hunger Project/Burkina Faso; Groupe d'Action pour le Développement Communautaire (GADEC); Tambacounda/Senegal; Union des Groupements Paysans de Mekhe (UGPM/Senegal); Projet Intrants/Niger; Groupement Nabonswendé de Tougouri/Burkina; Entente des Groupements Associés de Toubacouta (EGAT)/Senegal; Caritas-Kaolack/Senegal; AfriAfya (Caroline Nyamai-Kisia); CRS (Tom Remington); Farmers' Own Trading Company (Tony Margetts) Africa2000 Network, UEEF, Africare (Uganda).

Private Sector

TSBF-Africa is also working with a wide array of prive sector and farmers associations. Some of those involved in Kenya as an example include:
Western Seed Company (Kenya)- Saleem Esmail; BIDCO OIL REFINERIES LIMITED (Kenya) - Dileswar Pradhan, Ashish Mandlik; Mukwano Group of Companies (Uganda) - Ibnul Hassan Rizvi; NUTRO MANUFACTURING EPZ LIMITED - Simon Glover; Ebubala Self-Help Group (Shianda Location of Butere Division, Kenya); Tushiauriane Self Help Group (Eluche Sub-location, Kenya); Nabongo Panga Self-Help Group (Matawa Sub-Location, Nabongo Location, Kenya); Jitolee Women Group (Lukohe sublocation, North Marama location, Butere Division, Kenya); Etako Women Group (Lukohe sublocation, North Marama location, Butere Division, Kenya); Bushe Women Group (Butere Division, Kenya); Shishebu farmers' Group (Shianda location, Butere Division, Kenya); Mabole farmers' field school (Shianda location, Butere Division, Kenya); Masaa Men and Women Group; Eluche Mwangaza Community Dev't Organization (Eluche Sublocation, Mumias Division, Kenya); Uriri farmers' cooperative society (Migori District, Kenya); Suna farmers' cooperative society (Migori District, Kenya) AMFRI farms (Uganda), Olivine Indutries, Harare, Reapers (Pvt) Ltd, Harare.

 

Partners — TSBF-Latin America

ARIs

CIP, CIAT, IWMI, DIIS (Denmark), GTZ (Germany).

NARS

CORPOICA - La Libertad, Colombia; A. Rincón, R. Valencia, J.J. Rivera, C.J. Escobar; CORPOICA - Macagual, Colombia, C. Escobar; EMBRAPA - Soils, Brasil, H.Coutinho, C. Manzatto, A. de Andrade, A. Ármalo; EMBRAPA - Cerrados, Brasil, J.R. Correia; EMBRAPA - Agrobiologia, Brasil, A. Aquino; EMBRAPA - Cassava and Fruit Crops, A. Vilar Trindade; PROMIC (Bolivia); CEDEPAS (Peru); Dario Maya Botero Foundation (Colombia) CAR (Colombia); Regional Government, Moyobamba (Peru); The aqueduct company of Moyobamba EPSA (Peru); PROMACH (Ecuador); ECOPAR (Ecuador).

NGOs

CENIPALMA, P.L. Gómez, F. Munevar.

Specialized Institutions

ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; Prof. E. Frossard, A. Oberson; Agricultural University of Norway, Norway; Prof. B.R. Singh; University of Gottingen, Germany, Prof. N. Claassen; University of Freiburg; Prof. E. Wellmann; University of Chile; Prof. M. Pinto; University of Montana, USA, M.Rillig, D.; Cornell University, USA, J. Thies, M. Devare, J. Duxbury, L.Allee, J. Losey; University of California-Davis, USA, J. Six; Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, R. Berbara; University of Western Australia, Australia, A. Conacher; Zhejiang University, China, W. Wu; University of Duke, U.S.A. Prof J. Reynolds; University of New Mexico, U.S.A, Jeff Herrick; Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México, Luis García Barrios; North Carololina State University, Jot Smyth.

International Agricultural Research Centers

CATIE, Costa Rica; J. Beer; ICRAF, R.Coe, K. Shepherd; IFDC, USA; D. Friesen; IWMI, Thailand, A. Noble; IRD, J.L. Janeau and C. Prat; FAO-Honduras, C. Paul, L.A. Welchez.

National Universities

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, M. Sánchez de Prager, Juan C. Menjivar, M. Prager, E. Madero; Universidad Nacional de Agricultura, Catacamas, Honduras, J. Reyes and W. Reyes; Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Forestales-ESNACIFOR, Honduras, P. Dubon, Z. Martínez; Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico-CURLA, Honduras, Manuel López; Universidad Nacional Agraria de Nicaragua, M. Somarriba, I. Rodríguez, G. Bonilla; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Universidad Javeriana (Colombia); University of Florida (USA).

Private Sector

CORPOMORTIÑO (Colombia), AGROALIZAL (Colombia)

Others

FINAGRO (Fondo Nacional de Garantías Agropecuarias)

 

Donors

Australia

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Canada

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Denmark

Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)

Germany

Federal Ministry of Cooperation and Economic Development (BMZ)

Norway

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

United Kingdom

Department for International Development (DFID)

United States of America

Rockefeller Foundation

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Division of Global Environment Facility Coordination (GEF)

 

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