private sector

Agricultural Investors as Development Actors? (AIDA)

Like agricultural investors from other non-African countries, Danish farmers and institutional investors are increasingly attracted by the invitations extended by African governments to invest in…
Tanzania
Uganda
employment
land ownership
livelihoods
private sector
water resources
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
Makerere University, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Uganda
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Tanzania
Green Development Advice, Denmark
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Denmark
Total grant
9,999,777
https://www.diis.dk/node/6474

The Timber Rush: Private Forestry in Village Land

A little known timber rush is going on in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania primarily driven by domestic investments. Recent reports and government project documents estimate that private forest…
Tanzania
forest policy
land ownership
poverty reduction
private sector
value chain
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania
Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SUA)
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Department of Food and Resource Economics, Denmark
Total grant
6,999,919
http://www.diis.dk/node/6954

GREEiNSECT - Insects for green economy

Demand for animal protein in developing countries is predicted to double by 2050 putting pressure on protein sources for food and animal feed, such as soya and fish. More sustainable protein sources…
Kenya
agricultural development
innovation adoption
insects
nutrition
private sector
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Faculty of Science (UCPH)
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (UCPH)
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Bondo, Kenya
Joma Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Food Science and Technology, Kenya
International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Entomopathology Unit, Kenya
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Department of Fisheries Post-Harvest Technologies and Quality Control, Cambodia
Khon Kaen University, Faculty of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Thailand
FAO, Forest Department, Food and Agriculture, Insects for Food and Feed Programme, Italy
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Department of Plant and Environmental Science, Denmark
Enviroflight, Ohio, USA
Agriprotein, Cape Town, South Africa
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Denmark
Total grant
9,994,500
http://www.greeinsect.ku.dk

Health Systems Reform and Ethics: Private Practitioners in Poor Urban Neighbourhoods in India, Indonesia and Thailand

This project studied health care provided by private practitioners to inhabitants of selected poor urban neighbourhoods in India, Indonesia and Thailand. In India, the project observed wide variation…
India
Indonesia
Thailand
access
ethics
health care
health systems
low income groups
private sector
reform
urban areas
Aarhus University (AU), Denmark
Department of Anthropology and Ethnography (AU) - Prior to 2013
Faculty of Humanities (AU) - Prior to 2013
Total grant
4,000,141
http://www.hum.au.dk/hsre
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