Research projects
Overall aim: to develop nutritionally improved foods for infants and young children in low-income countries, based on improved utilization of traditional foods (semi-domesticated and wild indigenous…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (UCPH)
Fisheries Administration of Cambodia, Department of Fisheries, Post-Harvest Technologies and Quality, Cambodia, University of Nairobi, Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID), Kenya
Total grant: 11,128,441
Depending on future CO2 emission scenarios, the average surface temperature is projected to increase 1.1-6.4°C by 2100. Tropical species, compared to many temperate species, are expected to be…
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Total grant: 2,151,000
Sorghum grown from farm saved seeds is a major crop in the drought-threatened region of Sahel. A recent small scale study made by the applicant institutions in Burkina Faso hasdocumented >25% increase…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Plant and Environmental Science (UCPH)
Institut de l´Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Kamboinsé Research Station, Burkina Faso, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Department of Crop Science, African Seed Health Centre,Tanzania
Total grant: 4,480,048
This project is about the future of urban Tanzania. It will investigate the dynamics of the land management system, urban governance and leadership in order to find out how an improved relationship of…
Total grant: 4,737,900
The project is an investigation of the role of popular culture in young people’s lives in two Ugandan cities. Although the majority of Ugandan youths are faced with uncertain futures and social…
Total grant: 2,334,976
The SIFA project aims at developing irrigated high-value vegetable cropping systems in Southwest Africa that are "climate proof". This will be accomplished by introducing water saving drip irrigation…
cropping systems, irrigated farming, sustainability, trickle irrigation, value added, water conservation
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (UCPH)
Aarhus University (AU), Denmark, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Total grant: 5,227,371
The project "Water supply, sanitation, hygiene promotion and health in Vietnam" (SANIVAT) has as its longterm objective to improve health and living conditions of the rural poor including ethnic…
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University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (UCPH), Department of Veterinary Disease Biology (UCPH)
Total grant: 9,400,835
This project will look at the triple exposure of local livelihood strategies and food provision to climate change, population pressure and globalization in agricultural frontline of Sahel. The…
climate change, farming systems, food supply, globalization, land diversion, land use, livelihoods, population pressure
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Geography and Geology (UCPH)
Institut de l'Environnement and de Recherches Agricoles - Burkina Faso, University of Ouagadougou, Department of Geography - Burkina Faso, Abdou Moumouni University (UAM), Department of Geography, Niger, University, Dakar, Senegal
Total grant: 6,332,933
It is proposed to create a West African network, including the University of Dakar, Senegal, Technical University of Bamako, Mali, University of Ghana, Legon, and the University of Ouagadougou,…
research organizations, research projects, climate change, environmental impact, international cooperation
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Geography and Geology (UCPH)
University of Ouagadougou, Department of Geography, Burkina Faso, University of Dakar, LERG, Senegal, University of Bamako, Department of Geology, Mali, University of Ghana (UG), Institute of Geography and Resource Development, Ghana
Total grant: 5,275,836
Overall aim: To examine newborn hospital mortality in South Vietnam in order to design intervention studies to be conducted in the next project phase. The studies are conducted in a tertiary…
Pediatric Hospital No 1, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Gorm Greisen, former head of Deptm Neonatolgy, Rigshospitalet, Vietnam
Total grant: 1,901,942
The overall objective of the research project is to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between labour market regulation, wages and employment. The project is based mostly on…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (UCPH), Department of Economics (UCPH)
Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) , Vietnam, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Vietnam
Total grant: 2,213,228
The project is an investigation into the lives, futures, and military livelihood strategies of a generation of war-affected youth in Acholiland on the Uganda/Sudan border. Due to ongoing peace talks…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (UCPH), Department of Antropology (UCPH)
Total grant: 2,146,713
The study aims to examine the beneficial impact of use of mobile phones for health care on maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, and to seek innovative ways to ensure access to skilled…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Health Sciences (UCPH), Department of International Health Immunology and Microbiology (UCPH)
Total grant: 2,659,096
Enterprise development in food processing with support from science base in food science and technology, nutrition and business management. Overall objective is to fill the knowledge gap on how to…
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, Faculty of Agriculture (SUA), Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness (SUA)
Total grant: 3,091,000
The project investigates, to which degree Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) in Kenya support or inhibit the implementation of the Education-For-All (EFA) strategy, and to which degree TTC supports or…
Total grant: 2,139,584
From a predominantly political standpoint, informed by a multi-sited ethnographical case study in Mozambique, this project aims to provide a clear articulation of the relationship between curative…
acquired immune deficiency syndrome, antiretroviral agents, efficacy, ethnography, malnutrition, politics, treatment
Total grant: 2,147,963
This project explores how governance, politics and authority operate in present day Bangladesh. The project centres on the sites of incubation of political leaders and state servants - the youth in…
Total grant: 401,186
Developing countries are preparing for the next global climate regime to follow the Kyoto protocol in 2012 and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhancing forest carbon…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Food and Resource Economics (UCPH)
Total grant: 197,123
Smallholder livestock is a potential driver of economic growth in Tanzania. This is recognized in the National Strategy for Livestock Development, the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (UCPH), Department of Veterinary Disease Biology (UCPH)
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College,Tanzania
Total grant: 4,077,480
Project Completion Report: The focus of the Ph.D. thesis is how the efforts to access and live with lifelong treatment made by people with different social and economic resources, are recognized,…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (UCPH), Department of Antropology (UCPH)
Total grant: 1,125,092
Improved tenure security can help improve food security for the 75% of the world’s poor who live on the countryside and depend on access to land. The project investigates implementation of…
Total grant: 2,820,437
The overall purpose of this Ph.D. study is to illuminate and analyse clients' and providers' experiences with distribution and access of ART over time so as to improve the quality and sustainability…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (UCPH), Department of Antropology (UCPH)
Total grant: 1,125,092
The aim of the project is to investigate consequences of climate change for the livelihoods of rural populations in three areas in Nepal and how people try to adapt to these changes. Emphasis will be…
resource management, rural population, climate change, coping strategies, livelihoods, medicinal plants, wood
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Food and Resource Economics (UCPH)
Total grant: 2,397,695
HIV infection (HIV) and sickle cell disease (SCD) are widespread chronic diseases in Africa, and there is major risk of co-infection of these diseases with malaria, particularly in children. Both HIV…
sickle cell anaemia, antimalarials, children, efficacy, human immunodeficiency viruses, nontarget effects, treatment
University of Copenhagen (UCPH)/Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Centre for Medical Parasitology (UCPH) (CMP)
University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS), Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ghana, University of Ghana (UG), school of Public Health, Centre for Medical Parasitology, Ghana, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Denmark
Total grant: 2,608,400
Black Sigatoka, caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is currently one of the major constraints for production of banana and plantain worldwide, including Sub-Saharan and East Africa where millions of…
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, Faculty of Science (UCPH), Department of Plant and Environmental Science (UCPH)
Makerere University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Production, Uganda, Central Food Technology Research Institute, India, Grains and Legumes Development Board, Ghana
Total grant: 3,166,197