On-going projects
Last update: 10 April 2024
Last update: 10 April 2024
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The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme
The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme is a major international initiative that aims to improve wildlife conservation and food security. We are developing innovative, collaborative, and scalable new approaches to conserve wild animals and protect ecosystems, while at the same time improving the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and rural communities that depend on these resources. -
Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim) Project
LIPS-Zim is a European Union-funded project that aims to increase agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe’s semi-arid agro-ecological regions IV and V. It promotes increased adoption of climate-relevant innovations in livestock-based production systems and improved surveillance and control of livestock diseases.
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INTERFACE BETWEEEN ZIMBABWE’S COMMUNAL AND PROTECTED AREAS
How Climate change modify interactions among wildlife, livestock, and human in the hot spot of biodiversity in Africa?
What are the consequences for infectious diseases?
Study at the interface between communal and protected areas in Zimbabwe
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Mozambican Arenavirus at the Rodent Human interface
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have been a growing concern for public health over the past decades with major outbreaks of emerging or re-emerging pathogens such as the Ebola virus, avian influenza viruses, SARS, and MERS coronavirus. Around 75 percent of EIDs are zoonotic diseases and most of them originate from wildlife. The complexity of multi-host systems at stake, for which, host roles and modes and routes of transmission are still largely unknown creates important challenges for surveillance and control.. Rodents, the most diverse order of Mammals, are considered a major potential source of emerging pathogens for humans, and the study of the Human / Rodent interface is of particular interest to prevent outbreaks of EIDs, especially in countries with limited resources available for public health. -
Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa (COHESA)
Led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA AfriCenter), a new project has just started in Eastern and Southern Africa. -
Implemented by the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria (CVZ), Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (FVS), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) and Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) and College of Health Sciences of the University of Zimbabwe, a new four- year project will run from 2022 through 2026. The project is being implemented under the framework of the Research Platform -– Production and Conservation in Partnership (RP-PCP). -
Resilience building through Agroecological Intensification in Zimbabwe (RAIZ) project
The RAIZ project aims to develop and implement scientifically tested agroecological approaches to enhance agricultural production and resilience to climate change in Zimbabwe. -
FairCarboN – Carbon in continental ecosystems: levers and pathways for carbon neutrality
FairCarboN will help to determine the possible contribution of continental ecosystems to climate change mitigation, without which the objective of the Paris climate agreement will be unattainable. -
The IntercropValuES project aims to exploit the benefits of intercropping to design and manage productive, diversified, resilient, profitable, environmentally friendly cropping systems acceptable to farmers and actors in the agri-food chain. -
The DSCATT project explores the potential for sequestering carbon in cultivated soils, taking into account the sustainability of agricultural practices in the context of global changes. -
Transformational agroecology across food, land, and water systems – Agroecology Initiative (AE-I)
The OneCG initiative ‘Transformational agroecology across food, land, and water systems’ investigates the contribution of agroecological transition to greater food system sustainability and resilience
