Several research projects at CAES have won grants amounting to USD 610,873, EURO 432,361 and UGX 197,250,000= as of 2018. Some of the grants are given by the government and others by several partners. These grants have seen a significant breakthrough towards consolidating research and innovation in CAES. These grants are a progressive input towards poverty eradication and improvement of livelihoods in line with the country’s socio-economic development plans. They also help to increase research and innovation output, thus boosting out developers’ innovations.
| Project Title | Description | Start Date | End Date | Principle Investigator | Partners | Project Value | Funders |
| The Nemedussa project aims to increase awareness and education of nematodes ensuring that plant-parasitic nematodes are managed correctly and beneficial nematodes can be implemented as biocontrol organisms. Details | January 2021 | July 2024 | GHENT UNIVERSITY (UGENT) UNIVERSITY OF PARAKOU (UP) HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY (HU) JIMMA UNIVERSITY (JU) KENYATTA UNIVERSITY (KU) MOI UNIVERSITY (MOIU) AHMADU-BELLO UNIVERSITY (ABU) UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN (UI) NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY (NWU) STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY (SUN) MAKERERE UNIVERSITY (MAK) MUNI UNIVERSITY (MU) UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY-CALAVI (UAC) UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D’ AZUR (UCA) INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY | ||||
| Gender-Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) | GREAT) is a five-year collaboration between Cornell University, in the United States, and Makerere University, in Uganda, with a mission of creating more inclusive and effective agricultural systems through a combination of: the development of a Center of Excellence for gender and agricultural research at Makerere University; intensive training courses for agricultural researchers working in sub-Saharan Africa; the creation of a gender and agricultural research Community of Practice; and supporting institutional transformation for targeted agricultural research institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. Details | 2016 | Cornell Universit and Makerere University | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | |||
| Agricultural Investors as Development Actors (AIDA) | AIDA examines the development outcomes of foreign agricultural investments at sub-national level for people living in and using land in their vicinity, using Danish agricultural investments and their location in Tanzania and Uganda as the case and geographical starting point. In particular, AIDA focuses on the development outcomes with respect to employment, land tenure security and water security. Details | March 2016 | December 2022 | Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Makerere College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (MFA) | ||