SGCI Funded Project
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Project Titles & Institution
- Investigating and Demonstrating the use of Biochar in Sustainable Agriculture as a Potential Input for Enhancing Low Soil Fertility and improving animal feed efficiency challenges in Smallholder Farming in Mozambique and Zambia, Dr. Kafula Chisanga, ZARI, Choma (Sustainable Agriculture Practices)
- Solar based irrigation business model ‘pay as go irrigate’ for empowerment, water management and food security in Mozambique-Zambia, Dr. Sam Sichilalu, University of Zambia (Renewable Energy).
- Soil extracted microbes for bio fertilizers: Nature’s options for climate resilient crop production systems’. The Zambian Principal Investigator is Dr. Ikabongo Mukumbuta, from Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust (GART), in Chisamba.
- Recovery and mineral value addition of copper in tailings from the Zambian Copperbelt; Dr. Precious Chisala, Copperbelt University, School of Mines and Mineral Sciences.
- Enhancement of the electric vehicle battery manufacturing value chain through technological innovation, adaptation, and modification of existing technologies that will help Zambia enter the electric vehicle battery manufacturing industry; PI: Dr. Jewetti Masinja, University of Zambia, School of Mines.
- Sustainable agriculture practices & renewable energy
- Climate-smart agriculture technologies
- Mineral value addition
- 5 projects (1 collaborative with Namibia, 2 with Moz, 2 national)
- 15 months
- 577,500 ZMW each project
- 2,400,000 ZMW
- National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
- Namibia and Mozambique
