TRANS-SAHARA

TRANS-SAHARA  aims to support African communities in their fight against climate change based on the well-established Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus approach.
The approach towards agroforestry management focuses on the Greater North African Region.
Overarching goals are to (i) increase the water content in regional water cycles to facilitate regeneration of degraded ecosystems, followed by (ii) the development of economically viable agroforestry interventions to showcase agroforestry innovations and finally (iii) facilitating an innovation ecosystem at regional, national and global scales to support a systemic socio-technical transition.

   

Details

Status:

  • active

Supported by BayFOR:

  • active

Research Focus:

  • Agriculture / Fisheries / Bioeconomy , 
  • Water / Sanitation / Hydrology

Project Coordination:

Technical University of Munich
(TUM)

Project Partner:

Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection
(STMUV)
Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar ( Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
(UCAD)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(KNUST)
Ministry of Environment, Fisheries and Sustainable Development
National Research Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Water, and Forestry
(INGREEF)
Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences
(PAUWES)
Rural Polytechnic Institute for Training and Applied Research
(IPR-IFRA)
Senegalese Agency for Reforestation and the GGW
(ASERGMV)
University of El Manar
(UEM)
University of Pala
(UPALA)
West African Science Services Centre on Climate Change
(WASCAL)
World Agroforestry Centre
(ICRAF)

Other Partners:

United Nations University Institute for Environment & Human Security – UNU-EHS (Japan) National University Corporation Wakayama University (Japan) National University Corporation Tottori University (Japan) Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan) ZABALA Brussels (Belgium) Accademia Europea di Bolzano – EURAC (Italy) Environment Europe Foundation (The Netherlands)

Countries:

Germany (Bavaria), Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, Tunisia, Senegal, Mali, Chad, Djibouti

Funding Agency:

European Union (EU)

Duration:

01/11/2024
- 31/10/2027

URL:

Contact:

TRANS-SAHARA

TRANS-SAHARA  aims to support African communities in their fight against climate change based on the well-established Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus approach.
The approach towards agroforestry management focuses on the Greater North African Region.
Overarching goals are to (i) increase the water content in regional water cycles to facilitate regeneration of degraded ecosystems, followed by (ii) the development of economically viable agroforestry interventions to showcase agroforestry innovations and finally (iii) facilitating an innovation ecosystem at regional, national and global scales to support a systemic socio-technical transition.

   

Details

Status:

  • active

Research Focus:

  • Agriculture / Fisheries / Bioeconomy , 
  • Water / Sanitation / Hydrology

Countries:

Germany (Bavaria), Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, Tunisia, Senegal, Mali, Chad, Djibouti

Funding Agency:

European Union (EU)

Duration:

01/11/2024
- 31/10/2027

URL:

Contact:

Dr. Daphne Keilmann-Gondhalekar (TUM)