SADC-FANR - ICART Project - Grant Projects

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Southern African Development Community

Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR)

Implementation And Coordination Of Agricultural Research And Training (ICART)

One of the major components of the ICART project is the funding of Research and Training activities in the SADC Member States. The project launched the Competitive Regional Agricultural Research Fund (CRARF) and the Regional Training Programme (RTP).

The CRARF funds research activities of consortia of research institutions, which are both regional and international. However, all research activities are carried out in the SADC Member States. The programmes run for three years.

The RTP funds regional universities to set up and run a Masters Programme in Agriculture, for citizens of the SADC region. The host University has to have a majority of students from other SADC Member States than local students in the funded programme. The RTP grant enables the institutions to set up their Masters programme in the first year and run the course over the next two years. In addition, the University may provide short courses for professionals, based on the contents developed for the Masters Programme.

An overview of the CRARF and the RTP awarding process and short descriptions of the grants awared can be viewed as a pdf file or as a Powerpoint Show. The grants are also listed in the tables below.

*Projects awarded grants under the ICART-CRARF*
PROJECT TITLE	PROJECT MANAGER	PROJECT PARTNERS
Agricultural Research and Capacity Building Programme (ARCB) for post-conflict regions of the Republic of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Presentation Sept 08)	World Vision	1. Agricultural Research Institute (IIA);Angola 2. National Institute of Agricultural Research (INERA) DRC
Linking the production and marketing chain for development of smallholder agricultural commodities using sesame in Mozambique and Tanzania as model.(SESAME) (Presentation Sept 08)	University of Greenwich (NRI)	1. Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute (Tanzania) 2.. Economic and Social Research Foundation (Tanzania) 3. The Savings and Credit Cooperative Union League of Tanzania [SCCULT] 4. TechnoServe Inc.(Mozambique) 5. Instituto de Investigacao Agraria de Mocambique - Centro Zonal Nordeste [IIAM]
Environmental and human health impact assessment of Quelea bird control in southern Africa and novel means of harvesting Quelea birds for protein and income generation (QUELEA) (Presentation Sept 08)	University of Greenwich (NRI)	1. Agricultural Research Council - Plant Protection Research Institute 2. Ministry of Agriculture, Plant Protection Division (Botswana) 3. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Co-operatives of the United Republic of Tanzania
Development of Ecologically-Based Rodent Management for the SADC Region. (ECORAT) (Presentation Sept 08)	University of Greenwich (NRI)	1. Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Council (RSA) 2. Durban Natural Science Museum (RSA) 3. National Museum of Namibia 4. Sokoine University of Agriculture 5. University of Swaziland
Caesalpinioid woodlands of Southern Africa: Optimising the indigenous use of pesticidal plants- Southern African Pesticidal Plant project (SAPP) (Presentation Sept 08)	University of Greenwich (NRI	1. Lunyangwa Research station, Malawi; 2. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Zambia; 3. University of Zimbabwe; 4. Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE - Zimbabwean NGO) 5. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; 6. Mzuzu University (Malawi)
Livestock and Livelihoods: Improving market participation by small-scale livestock producers (LILI) (Presentation Sept 08)	ICRISAT	1. Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) 2. Practical Action, Zimbabwe 3. Department of Agricultural Research and Extension (AREX), Zimbabwe 4. Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique 5. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Community based forecasting for improved cereal productivity and profitability in Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. (Community Based Armyworm Forecasting (CBAF) (Presentation Sept 08)	Centre for Applied BioSciences International (CABI)	1. Plant Protection Research Institute Zimbabwe; 2. Bvumbwe Agric Research Station, Malawi 3. Ministry of Agriculture, Plant Health Services, Tanzania 4. Agricultural Research Council : Public Support Services (ARC:PSS) Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), RSA 5. University of Greenwich, UK

Further details on CRARF projects, including project partner contact details

*Projects funded under the ICART-RTP*
name of institution	programme
1. University of the Free State (Presentation Sept 08)	Collaborative MSc for Broad Based Agricultural Training in SADC
2. Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) (Presentation Sept 08)	MSc Land and Water Management Programme
3. University of Zambia (Presentation Sept 08)	MSc Plant Breeding and Seed Systems
4. University of Zimbabwe (Presentation Sept 08)	MSc and Short courses in Dairy Science and Technology

Further details on RTP projects (Status at May 2008)
Proceedings of workshop with grant-funded project Managers - Sept 08

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