Projects

Africa RISING: Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands

Vaccination

Accelerating CBPP research towards a better vaccine through application of synthetic biology

Enhanced control of CBPP through the development of an inactivated vaccine – proof of concept

Characterization of Theileria parva specific cytotoxic T. cells

Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro pastoral systems in Africa

Enabling livestock based economies in Kenya to adapt to climate change: A Review of payment for ecosystem services from wildlife tourism as a climate change adaptation option

Providing proof of concept for the development of an inactivated vaccine for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP)

Integrating dairy goats and root crop production for increasing food, nutrition and income security of smallholder farmers in Tanzania

Development of Improved Control Interventions for Peste des Petits Ruminants

Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Social sustainability and Tipping points in African drylands (BEST)

Comparative genome sequence analysis to identify disease and traits related genes under different selection pressures during chicken domestication

Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity; mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa (HEALTHY FUTURES)

Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity; mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa (HEALTHY FUTURES)