UNICARSSA

University-based Community Action Research for increasing viability of cereal-legume value chains towards improved nutrition and livelihoods in sub-Sahara Africa

Main project objectives are improve sustainable food production vs reducing soil degradation, and improving FNS at household and community level, in Kenya and Uganda.

Tasks:

• Increase resilience of farming systems and food production

• Development of ready-to-use suplementary foods(RTUFS

• Strenghtening of local-nutrition sensitive chains

• Capacity building of local innovation systems & MSc and PhD students

• A tranversal focus on gender accesion to benefits from project outputs.
  

Instituições / Escolas:

• University of Eldoret, Kenya(Project Coordinator);

• Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands;

• Makerere University, Uganda;

• Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa (ISA/Ulisboa), Portugal