I am a researcher in sweetpotato starch within the University of Malawi and currently looking for partners to explore cheap ways of developing or modify starches that can perform particular functionalities in food.
Madalitso Tsakama
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I am working on a tree planting project for Swaziland. The plan is to plant trees in the drought stricken areas of Swaziland and fight climate change by planting indiginous trees, starting with eroded areas to areas of potential erosion. It has been predicted that some species will become extinct while others will migrate as [...]
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Africa is currently experiencing a crisis of availability of fish.
Africa is the region where fish consumption per capita is the lowest, the only region of the world where it is falling. This decrease is mainly due to stagnation of the catch while the population continues to increase.
To maintain the current level of availability of [...]
The International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) Kenya is an International Non-Governmental Organization, based in Mombasa, Kenya, affiliated with Ghent University, Belgium, and registered since May 2000. ICRH K is implementing various activities in different fields of reproductive health. These activities encompass basic research as well as interventions including family planning, safe motherhood, child health, [...]
I would like to develop and promote horticultural crops-based homegardens for improved food and nutritional security of small scale farmers in Amhara region, Ethiopia. A participatory action research is required that encompasses the whole spectrum of constraint identification to technology development and supply as well as instill skills to growers on technological itineraries and propagation [...]
Guyana-based NGO working in ICT for development seeks to support a project in environment, energy or other fields. Extensive experience and good track record with projects for UNDP, EU, USAID and others. Staff has a background in training, workshop facilitation, ICT, education, distance education and physics. Some local funding available. Office in Georgetown.
For more info [...]
Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the Southwest Pacific has rich terrestrial and marine biological diversity that have yet to be fully documented and understood. At the University of Goroka (UoG), we are looking at developing some of these naturally abundant forest resources into useful products for use as food, medicine and other products. We are [...]
I would like to partner with project developers in the framework of the ACP Science and Technology Programme.
I graduated in 1993 in Germany as an electrical engineer and was awarded a PhD degree in 2003 in applied sciences in Belgium. I speak, read and write French, English and German. I am working as a Senior [...]
The Institute for Water Quality, Resource and Waste Management of Vienna University of Technology (Austria) offers its collaboration in a research project under the ACP Science and Technology Programme. Our fields of interest and expertise in research and teaching are the following:
Solid waste and resource management;
Waste sampling and analysis;
Assessing and investigation of waste management systems;
Waste [...]
I am a forester holding a BSc and MSc in forestry. I am currently working as a lecturer at Mekelle University in the Dryland Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation College and I am the head of the Forest and Nature Conservation Program. I am interested in research such as biofuel energy development, conservation, in the [...]
