Makfhurat Amanova (Uzbekistan)
Focus of Fellowship: Development/introduction of new groundnut varieties suitable for Uzbekistan and their seed multiplication.
The sponsoring Center is ICRISAT.
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Lelia Dongo (Nigeria)
Focus of Fellowship: Evaluation of the different methods of cocoa bean fermentation in Nigeria with respect to mycotoxin contamination.
The sponsoring Center is IITA
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Mehari Endale (Ethiopia)
Focus of Fellowship: Improving food security through community-based selection and development of Trypanotolerant cattle in the high disease challenge Ghibe Valley
The sponsoring Center is ILRI.
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Erlene Manohar (Philippines)
Focus of Fellowship: Dubbed the ‘tree of life’ by the millions of people who depend on it, coconut supplies more than 100 different products including food and drink, fodder for livestock, fibre and building materials. Yet it is grown mostly by small holder farmers who live in marginal and often very poor areas. Through COGENT, its coconut network, IPGRI has been working over the past few years with the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) on a ‘poverty reduction’ project designed to sustainably improve the livelihoods of coconut farmers. Erlene Manohar’s research will build on this work by helping to scale up and disseminate proven approaches to using coconut genetic diversity to create new products that villages can use to improve their livelihoods.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI.
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Alice Muchugi (Kenya)
Focus of Fellowship: Warburgia: taxonomy and repductive biology of a valuable tropical medicinal tree.
The sponsoring Center is theWorld Agroforestry Centre/ICRAF.
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Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo (Zambia)
Focus of Fellowship: Understanding mechanisms underlying insect and pathogen interactions in the development of maize and soghum stalk and ear rots, and their effects on yield as a result of spoilage due to mycotoxin.
The sponsoring Center is IITA
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Claid Mujaju (Zimbabwe)
Focus of Fellowship: Claid Mujaju’s work will also focus on protecting forest species. Zimbabwe’s forests were once rich reservoirs of fruit, wood, timber and forage. Local communities rely on these forests for their food and livelihoods but massive deforestation has led to the loss of much of this diversity. In collaboration with the Zimbabwean National Plant Genetic Resources Centre and the National Genebank of Zimbabwe, Claid will work to establish ‘community forest gardens’ to enable and empower these communities to protect the biodiversity on which they depend. As farmers teach younger generations how to tend to the gardens, they will pass on their priceless knowledge about this diversity ensuring that it is protected and used for years to come.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI
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Athanase Mukuranlinda (Rwanda)
Focus of Fellowship: Spectral reflectance classification of soil fertility gradients in Rubona, Rwanda.
The sponsoring Center is Wold Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).
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Geoffrey M. Muluvi (Kenya)
Focus of Fellowship: His research will contribute to efforts to safeguard a tree called Brachyleana huillensis, thereby also protecting the livelihoods of the many people who depend on it. Wood from the Brachyleana huillensis tree is the most popular in Kenya for making artifacts. Kenya’s wood carving industry is lucrative, earning an export value of US$ 20 million a year and supporting an estimated 60, 000 woodcarvers with another 300, 000 dependants. Yet, the success of this industry comes at a heavy price. To satisfy demand, around 50, 000 trees are cut down annually and with the wood carving industry expected to expand even further, concerns are growing about the industry’s sustainability. Increased trade with the West has led to various initiatives to conserve the tree and to promote the use of alternative tree species. Unfortunately, these have not been entirely successful and Brachyleana huillensis is rapidly disappearing from Kenya’s forests.
Muluvi will work to assess the amount and distribution of the genetic diversity of Brachyleana huillensis in Kenya. This information will be crucial when collecting samples of the tree to conserve in genebanks and will be necessary to decide on the best sites for in situ conservation. His work will be carried out in collaboration with the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) and Kenya’s Forest Department.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI.
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David Nguenga (Cameroon)
Focus of Fellowship: Development of techniques for small-scale ornamental fish farming using endemic rainforest fish species from Cameroon.
The sponsoring Center is WorldFish Center
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BA Niango Malick (Burkina Faso)
Focus of Fellowship: Combination of host plant resistance and neem seed extract spraying for the control of the cowpea key insect pests in central Burkina Faso.
The sponsoring Center is IITA.
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Namita Srivastava (India)
Focus of Fellowship: Screening of salinity tolerance in the mini-core collection of pigeonpea and groundnut.
The sponsoring Center is ICRISAT.
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2005 Thalwitz Scholarship Recipient: Dilrabo Hamdamova (Uzbekistan)
Focus of Fellowship: Analysis of women's involvement in water resources management in Zeravshan River Basin, Uzbekistan.
The sponsoring Center is IWMI.
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