Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Trans-SEC - Innovating pro-poor Strategies to safeguard Food Security using Technology and Knowledge Transfer

Status
current
Project begin
01.05.2013
Project end
31.12.2018
Sponsor mark
031A249B
Keywords
Biomasse, Nachernteschutz, Ökobilanz, Trocknung
beer brewing from milling residues
Description

Trans-SEC is supported by the funding initiative “Securing the Global Food Supply – GlobE” and embedded in the framework program “National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030”. The project period is planned for five years with a total budget of 7,5 Mio Euro. Seven German research institutes, two CGIAR research centers from Kenya and USA as well as five Tanzanian institutes are involved in Trans-SEC. Approximately 70 scientists and non-governmental professionals will contribute to innovate strategies to safeguard food security through the use of technology and knowledge transfer.

The Institute of Agricultural Engineering is mainly involved in task 6.1: Post-harvest Processing, Biomass and Waste Product Utilization. The first responsibility of 440e lies on the creation of baseline reports on post-harvest processes and bioenergy production. Further, we will develop enhancements on currently applied post-harvest processes; we will test and compare them to the baseline scenario.  Additionally, life cycle assessment, especially for the bioenergy options will be performed. The impact assessment will feed into other tasks and help develop future proofing strategies and risk analysis.

Cultures, we are currently focusing on are maize, rice, sunflower pearl millet and pigeon pea.

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Sponsors

  • BMBF

Publications in the course of the project