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CRARF
Project:
Optimising indigenous use
of pesticidal plants in Southern Africa (SAPP)
Project
Manager :
University of Greenwich (NRI)
Contact:Dr Phil Stevenson +44
1634 883212 P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Project
Partners
1. Lunyangwa
Research station - Malawi;
2. World
Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) - Zambia
3. University of Zimbabwe (UZ) - Zimbabwe
4. Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources
(SAFIRE) - Zimbabwe
5. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - UK
6. Mzuzu University - Malawi
Project
Location :Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe
Grant
Amount € 690,146
Project
Start Date 1 January 2007
Overall Objectives
- To reduce the high level of
rural poverty
by making agriculture more competitive to raise poor farmers’ incomes.
- To offset the high rate of
natural resource
degradation, with focus on soil, water and biodiversity.
- To develop effective rural
policy options,
institutional and farmer organisations to support the agricultural
production
systems and to link the farmers to the market.
Specific Objective
To strengthen generation of
appropriate,
cost-effective and environmentally sustainable technologies using local
plant
materials for pest management in small-scale farming in the Region.
Activities
WP 1: Coordination
and Management (Lead – NRI)
Inception
workshop
Coordination meetings
Technical and financial reports
WP 2: Surveys of indigenous plants (Lead – Royal Botanic
Gardens-Kew)
Literature
and field surveys of indigenous
use of botanical pesticides
Analysis of habitat change
Formulation of policy
recommendations.
WP3: Phytochemistry (Lead: NRI)
Species
selection
sample collection
Chemical profiling, isolation and
characterisation of active ingredients.
WP4:
Toxicology testing (Lead: University of Zimbabwe)
Selection
of plant species
rodent feeding trials
histological examination.
Carry out market surveys and
workshops to
promote local supply and marketing of botanical pesticides.
WP5: On-Farm
trials (Lead – SAFIRE)
Field
and farm trials of botanical
pesticides for protection of stored grain, vegetables and livestock in
at least
three communities each.
WP6: Sustainable
production of botanicals (Lead – ICRAF)
Investigate
propagation, cultivation and
sustainable collection of key species of botanical pesticide
Develop protocols for harvesting
and
processing to ensure maximum activity.
WP7: Capacity building (Lead – NRI)
On-the-job
training;
Workshops and training courses
with inputs by UK
experts.
Reports &
Publications
Project Website:
http://www.nri.org/projects/sapp/
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