Advancing Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains through Strengthening Transdisciplinary Skills and Cooperation in East African Doctoral Education – ‘ADVALUE’
Mak Coordinator: Professor John R.S. Tabuti
The project addresses the need for qualified doctorates and future academic professionals in agricultural sciences who impact the research and teaching capacities of their Higher Education Institutions and contribute to local and regional achievement of SDG goals with the development of sustainable agricultural value chains. Details
Objectives of ADVALUE
modernised doctoral programmes with innovative course offers in transdisciplinary research methods and value chain approaches,
strengthened stakeholder involvement to ensure needs orientation and innovation potential,
capacity building of staff and students, and
improved quality assurance and development in doctoral education.
AfPEC Project
Mak Coordinator: Professor John R.S. Tabuti
*****Funded by DANIDA, Agroforestry for People, Ecosystems and Climate Change (AfPEC), a five-year project (March 2024-April 2029) focusing on Mt. Elgon Highlands in Eastern Uganda aims to foster to use agroforestry to prevent climate change and loss of biodiversity in the region. The project will focus on four districts namely: Mbale, Bududa, Bulambuli, and Kapchorwa. Project Partners: Makerere University, Aarhus University & University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Youth Leading Environmental Change (YLEC), Seniors without Borders, Forests of the World, Stjernekommunikation, and Frellsen Kaffe. Through the project, coffee farmers in the region will be supported to export their coffee to Denmark. The project team held the inception meeting on 25th-26th September 2024, in Mbale City. More
Funder: DANIDA
Duration: five-year project (March 2024-April 2029)
FLYGENE
PI: Dr. Nicholas Kiggundu
Value: USD 3,264,795
Funder: DFC Centre –
Denmark
Duration: 1st April 2022 -30th
March 2027
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
GREAT guides scientists to take new approaches to their research and to deliver equitable outcomes for all genders.
The first phase of the project starting in 2015.
Funder: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Project Duration: 2026-2022
Partners: Cornell Universit and
Makerere University
MERIT PROJECT
PI: Prof. Yazidhi
Bamutaze
Value: USD
601,541.34
Funder: NORHED II Norway
Duration:1st Oct 2022
– 30th Oct,
2026
REfiPRO
Refugee insect production
for food and feed (REfiPRO)
PI: Dr. Dorothy Nakimbugwe
Value: EUR 136,285.25
Funder: IMPACT DESIGNS
Denmark
Duration: 1st July , 2022 – 30th August,
2026
LOCUST 4 INDUSTRY
LOCUST 4 INDUSTRY
PI: Dr. Dorothy Nakimbugwe
Value: UGX 63,100,000
Funder: National Research
Fund – Uganda
Duration: 1st March
2022 – 28th
Feb, 2025
APNI
AFRICAN PLANT NUTRITION
INSTITUTE – APNI
PI: Dr. Patrick Musinguzi
Value: USD
150,000
Funder: APNI MOROCCO
Duration:
1st July 2022
-30th June,
2025
Maksol Cooker.
Production scaleup and
commercialization of the
makerere smart solar-electric cooker: maksol cooker.
PI: Dr. Peter Tumutegyereize
Value: UGX 175,000,000
Funder: Science, Technology,
and Innovation
Secretariat-Office of
the President –Government of Uganda
Duration: 1st July, 2022 -30th
Nov 2023 30th August,
2026
30, 2025
DESIRA
DESIRA (Development Smart
Innovation through
Research in Agriculture)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Samuel
Kyamanywa
Value: EUR 30,000
Funder: EU (France)
Duration: 30th Oct,
2022 – Sept
30, 2025
Nemedussa project
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. These cause damage and yield loss to a wide variety of crops usually with other pathogens. Unfortunately, nematodes are often overlooked or misdiagnosed, resulting in the unnecessary use of unhealthy agro-chemicals. It was kick started in 2021-2024 Details |
Partners:
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
Agroforestry Paradox – Climate Clever Coffee (APCCO) Project
Climate changes associated with higher temperatures, droughts and changes in rainfall patterns is a huge threat to the lives of coffee communities across the globe, including in Uganda. The project focuses on Robusta coffee, which is the commercially most important
coffee species in Uganda, but has been partly neglected in coffee research. More
Enhancing skills of the actors in Wood Processing and value addition in small-scale wood furniture workshops in Greater Kampala
PI: Dr. Owen Seremba
Partners:
Funder: Mak Research and Innovation Fund (RIF) at Makerere University and funded by the Government of Uganda.
Duration:
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
Partners: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Makerere College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Funder: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (MFA)
Duration: 2016-2022