Focus of Fellowship: Improving lowland rice yield in rice-vegetable cropping system through the use of residual nutrient effects of preceeding crops. Work is to be carried out in southern Benin.
The sponsoring Center is the Africa Rice Center.
Hui Li (China) -
Focus of Fellowship: Molecular breeding for high oil maize.
The sponsoring Center is CIMMYT.
Turakulov Khurshid Sadullaevich (Uzbekistan)
Focus of Fellowship: Screening for resistant/tolerant wheat germplasm against cereal cyst nematode Heterodera sp. under both growth room and fields conditions.
The sponsoring Center is CIMMYT.
Ruth Thompson (Ghana)
Focus of Fellowship: Development of an informative set of simple sequence repeat markers for sweepotato fingerprinting and diversity assessment in the West African sub-region.
The sponsoring Center is CIP.
Botir Haitov (Uzbekistan) - Wilfried Thalwitz Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Focus of Fellowship: Identification of genetic variation and effective plant-microbe association for salt tolerance in chickpea.
The sponsoring Center is ICARDA.
Catherine Dembele (Burkina Faso)
Focus of Fellowship: Improving clonal propagation of Detarium microcarpum Guill & Perr from root cuttings.
The sponsoring Center is ICRAF/World Agroforestry Centre.
Donald Zulu (Zambia)
Focus of Fellowship: Impacts of organic and conservation farming practices on soil fauna and weed dynamics in Chongwe District Zambia.
The sponsoring Center is ICRAF/World Agroforestry Centre.
Egamberdieva Dilfuza (Uzbekistan)
Focus of Fellowship: Development of bio-fertilizer for suppression of fusarium wilt, dry root rot, in chickpea and enhancement of productivity under ecologically stressed environments.
The sponsoring Center is ICRISAT.
R. Pushpavalli (India)- Ravi Tadvalkar Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Focus of Fellowship: Are there common features in the tolerance of reproduction to drought, heat and salinity tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)?
The sponsoring Center is ICRISAT.
Sameera Sastry (India)
Focus of Fellowship: Induction of doubled haploids in chickpea.
The sponsoring Center is ICRISAT.
Jian Zhang (China)
Focus of Fellowship: Fertilizer, food production and health consequences of excessive fertilzer use: evidence from China.
The sponsoring Center is IFPRI.
Joseph Onyeka (Nigeria)
Focus of Fellowship: Halting the devastation of a “Poor Women’s Crop”: understanding the spread of taro leaf blight and identification of resistant taro clones in Nigeria
The sponsoring Center is IITA.
Godfrey Kagezi (Uganda)
Focus of Fellowship: Assessing the spread and impact of the Black Coffee Twig Borer, Xylosandrus compactus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Uganda.
