Ecological, technological and capacity building strategies for a sustainable optimization of local maize-based food systems and climate-change resilient food production at the level of smallholder farmers in Kenya
Maize, a frequently consumed staple food in sub-Saharan Africa, is regularly and heavily contaminated with carcinogenic fungal mycotoxins such as aflatoxins, which repeatedly leads to fatal outbreaks of aflatoxicosis. In Kenya in particular, a...
Term: 2024-03-01 bis 2027-02-28Hurdles for the establishment and performance of different agroforestry systems in Lower Saxony
The collaborative project aims to identify and overcome barriers to the establishment and performance of different agroforestry systems in Lower Saxony. The collaborative project has three main objectives: 1) Identify economic, social and agronomic...
Term: 2022-10-25 bis 2025-12-08Data and value-based decision-making for a sustainable land use
The projects aims to collect digital data of an organically farmed agricultural holding as well as environmental data in a way that the data can serve as a basis for the decision and evaluation of the holding to achieve optimal ecological, social,...
Term: 2023-02-10 bis 2025-12-31Sentinel Pond Network
The Sentinel Pond Network is the establishment of permanent monitoring sites in small bodies of water in the agricultural landscape in various regions of Germany. The aim of the project is the long-term and continuous recording of the chemical and...
Term: 2022-01-01 bis 2032-12-31Improve biological control of stored-product pest beetles by the combined use of semiochemicals and parasitoids
In the present project, we will study the scientific basis for the development of a new beneficial insect product against pest infestation of stored plant products and (further) develop and evaluate the idea of "attract-and-guide" in the biological...
Term: 2024-04-01 bis 2027-03-31Biological and insecticidal activity of different medicinal and aromatic plants against stored-product pest insects
In times of climate change and increasing demands for resilient and sustainable agriculture, the genetic resources of our arable crops are, among other things, an important basis for the development of new active principles and application methods...
Term: 2021-10-01 bis 2024-12-31FAIR-Fields -A Digital Research Environment
The aim of the project is to investigate the genotype, environment and management interactions (GxExM) with regard to the factors of varietal resistance, weed suppression, drought tolerance and yield of winter wheat (WW) and to evaluate preceding...
Term: 2022-08-01 bis 2025-06-30Monitoring of dead feral cats (Felis silvestris silvestris) in the STADTWaldkatzen project - Exposure of wild cats to rodenticides 2022-2024
Anticoagulant rodenticides (AK) are rodenticides that are subject to authorisation in the European Union according to authorisation in the Biocide Regulation (EU) No. 528/2012. The AK of the 2nd generation are so-called PBT substances. They are...
Term: 2022-01-01 bis 2024-12-31Regulation of fungus gnats in organic production of potted plants - Innovative approaches for the estimation of attractiveness of growing media to fungus gnats and for the development of comprehensive strategies for their control by beneficial organisms
Fungus gnats can be a significant problem in organic cultivation of potted plants. Due to a high percentage of peat substitutes and organic fertilization, growing media used in organic production are very attractive for fungus gnats and encourage...
Term: 2021-10-15 bis 2025-02-28Plant damages in organic production of potted herbs: cause analysis and development of counteractive measures and avoidance strategies
During the last two decades, German growers continuously extended the acreage of potted herbs. Already one third of them is cultivated according to the EU regulations on organic farming and guidelines of organic certification bodies, respectively....
Term: 2021-10-01 bis 2025-09-30