Ongoing Research Projects

Over the years, Sokoine University of Agriculture has been involved with a number of different collaborative research projects and programs. This page shows summary information about all current/ongoing projects. If you are interested in more detailed information contact, The Directorate of Postgraduate Studies, Research, Technology transfer, and Consultancy office at drpgs@sua.ac.tz (www.dprtc.sua.ac.tz)

ACCESS TO SEEDS: From Emergencies to Seeds System Development

African Centre of Excellence for Rodent pest management and Biosensor Technology Development (IRPM&BTD)

Afrique One – ASPIRE: African Science Partnership for Intervention Research Excellence

Agricultural and Food Systems Resilience; Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy (AFRICAP) Program

Agroecological Methodology in VEGetable crops (AGROVEG)

Agroecology Hub in Tanzania

Agroecology Research and Advocacy

AIDA - Agricultural Investors as Development Actors?

Application of Selective Technology to Improve Farmed Wami Tilapia along the Coastal Zones of Tanzania

APRA - Agricultural Policy Research in Africa

Breeding for Durable Angular Leaf Spot Disease Resistance in Common Beans Using Maker Assisted Gene Pyramiding in Tanzania

Brucellosis transmission patterns between animals and between animals and humans

Building Stronger Universities (BSU) Phase III

Canine Parvovirus infection in unvaccinated dogs and dogs with suggestive signs of PVE

Climate - smart flood salinity tolerant Africa Rice

Delineation of the genetic stock structure of the Queen mackerel to enhance fisheries management in Tanzania (DGS - Fish)

Developing User friendly management package for Fall Army Worm and ICT Based Awareness Creation System

Development Corridors Partnership (DCP)-Building capacity in Africa and China for sustainable development corridors

Development of a Bacillus Based Biological Fungicide Against Fusarium Wilt of Tomatoes

Development of Integrated community based intervention for control of dogs tapeworms lava infections in humans and ruminants at Ngorogoro Districts

Development of Multispecies validated Serology Protocols For Complex ecosystem, focused on East African community in Support of Global PPR Eradication

Development, evaluation and implementation of a practical health education intervention package for prevention and control of Taenia solium cysticercosis and taeniosis in Tanzania - (CYSTINET PROJECT)

East African Vegetable Crops Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab (EAVCIPM - IL)

Ecologically based rodent pest management for sustainable agriculture and food security in Africa (EcoRodMan) (ACE IRPM)

Ecology of Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever Virus

Effect of Resin Tapping on Growth and Wood Quality of pinus patula

Efficacy of a low dose ferric sodium ethylene tetra acetic acid (Fe-Na-EDTA) Supplement to reduce anemia in malaria

Enabling sustainable exploitation of the Coastal Tuna species (Kawakawa and Skipjack) in Western Indian Ocean (WIOMSA-Rhodes University)

Enhancing Entrepreneurship Innovation and Sustainability in Higher Education in Africa (EEISHEA)

Enhancing Forest restoration of Bunduki Gap in the Uluguru Nature Reserve in Morogoro, Tanzania

Enhancing Post harvest Technologies and Food Safety Innovations in Fresh Tomato Value Chain

Enhancing Rangeland Productivity and Community Livelohoods through Integrated Management of Noxious Weeds. A case of Kongwa weeds in Central Tanzania

Enhancing the Competitiveness of indigenous Cattle Beef Product

Facilitating multi stake holder Partnership to foster Sustainable Shark Fisheries in Tanzania - FPSSF

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry in Tanzania

Food and Local, Agriculture and Nutritional Diversity

Forest carbon assessment and monitoring in West Usambara mountain forests using existing data and remote sensing based method (COSTECH-POSTDOC)

Formulation, Validation and Promotion of Products from Commiphora swynnertonii Resin for Medical and Veterinary Uses

Genetic analysis to improve management and conservation of the endangered East Africa wedgefishes and their habitat

Genetic Diversity and influence of environmental variables on Frigate Tuna (Auxis Thazard ) reproductive perfomance in Tanzania waters for Sustainable Exploitation

Green Resource Innovations for Livelihood Improvement (GRILI)

Implication of tilapia in the emergence and transmission of progenitors of toxigenic Vibro cholerae in the aquatic environment during non-cholera outbreak periods in Tanzania

Improved Poductivity of Nile Tilapia through selective Breeding to Alliviate Poverty among Tanzania small-scale Farmers

Innovations in Technology, Institutional and Extension Approaches towards Sustainable Agriculture and enhanced Food and Nutritional Security in Africa - InnovAfrica

Insert Service and Biodiversity in Agro ecological Farming - SeBAF

Introducing livestock farmer Field school training Approach into extension system to Improve Animal Husbandry and welfare in Rural Settings

Livestock in the Forest - LIVE FOR-Pastoralism and Argo-Pastoralism in decentralized forest management in Tanzania

Local Initiatives in Restoration and Conservation of Degraded Mindu Dam Catchment Areas for Improved Livelihoods

Market Oriented Agroecology

Market System Analysis for Strengthening Production and Trade performance of Beef Products Industries and their Value chain in 11 Region Mainland

Non-Discriminating Access to Digital Information (DigI)

Novel Compounds for Countering Insecticide Resistance and Improving the Control of Plague Flea Vectors

Operationalising one health to vector borne disease in the content of Climate Change in Tanzania

Outreach and impact based assessment towards improving health and welfare of donkeys and livehood of rural communities in Central and Eastern zones, Tanzania

Panpan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Diseases Epidemics (PANDORA-ID-NET)

REFOREST Programme

Research networks for health Innovation in Sub Saharan Africa

Rural-Urban Transformation (RUT): Governance, Mobility, and Economic Dynamics, in Emerging urban Centers for Poverty reduction

Simian strains of the bacterium Treponema pallidum: a reservoir for human yaws infection

Southern African Center for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) - Africa Center of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals in Southern and Eastern Africa (SACIDS-ACE)

Strengthen One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) surveillance

Strengthening Agricultural Production ND Regional Trade Among Women Smallholder farmers in East Africa – Phase 2

Strengthening of SACIDS and Regional COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness in Eastern and Southern Africa

Sustainable Catchment Management though Enhanced Environmental Flow Assessment and Implementation for the Protection of the Western Indian Ocean from Land Based Sources and Activities in Tanzania (EFLOWS)

The effect of resin tapping on growth and wood quality of Pinus patula at Sao Hill Forest Plantation located in Mufindi district, Iringa region (Tanzania Forest Fund - TaFF)

Trade, development and Environment - TRADE Hub

Uncertainty reduction in Models for Understanding development Applications (UMFULA)

Understanding the Epidemiology and socio -economical impact of African Swine Fever

Unlocking Rock Phosphate Potential through Development and Production of Innovative Organic Fertilizer (Bio-Rock)

Use of Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) in order to improve Selection Efficiency in Breeding for Resistance to major bean diseases of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and developing appropriate seed delivery system in Tanzania

Valorization of potentials of Synadenium glaucescens (SG) Phytochemicals for Management of Important Human and Animal diseases (VaSPHARD)

What to plant when and where? Designing Integrated Forest-Agricultural Landscapes to Enhance Multiple Livelihood Benefits to and from Agriculture