NORTH-SOUTH CENTRE - ETH - North-South Centre North-South ...

Impressum
Publisher
North-South Centre, ETH Zurich
HCW, Hochstrasse 60a, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Editors
Ursula Gugger Suter,
Communication Manager, North-South Centre
Barbara Becker,
Managing Director, North-South Centre
Layout
Art Direction Stacy Müller, Zurich
Reproduction
With permission of the North-South Centre
Photos
Cover: A. Zabel (left: Household interview in a village
at the Bandhavgarh National Park boundary, India),
C. Jans (right: Patrick Njage preparing to sample
camels of a herd near Isiolo, Kenya);
p. 1: M. Zoss;
p. 2: R. Schulin;
p. 4: A. Fotso Kuate;
p. 5: D. Niedzwiecka;
p. 6: M. Egloff;
p. 9: A. Jenet (left), Sandec (right);
p. 10: U. Janssen-Tapken;
p. 11: M. Zoss;
p. 14: M. Egloff;
p. 18: Z.L. Urech;
p. 19: L.H. Andriambelo;
p. 21: P. Rüegg;
p. 22: CSRS;
p. 23: S. Impa Muthappa (top), C. Jans (bottom);
p. 24: U. Janssen-Tapken (top), S. Abbeddou
(bottom);
p. 25: NADEL;
p. 26: CDE;
p. 27: C. Jans (top), S. Engel (bottom);
p. 29: Sandec;
p. 31: IITA;
p. 32: S. Abbeddou;
p. 36: S. Krishnan;
p. 37: A. Zabel;
p. 38: N. Buchmann, S. Dorn;
p. 39: M. Sonnevelt;
p. 40: E. Frossard;
p. 41: S. Abbeddou;
p. 42: C. Jans;
p. 43: R. Schulin;
p. 46: F. Verones;
p. 47: F. Verones (left), K. Bartl (right);
p. 49: S. Graham;
p. 51: S. Krank;
p. 53: E. Frossard (left), D. Or (right);
p. 62: C. Orek;
p. 65: L.H. Andriambelo, C. Dirac Ramohavelo, V.K.
Hgaza Kouassi, A. Fotso Kuate, P.N. Njau, C. Flury, M.
Jemo, C.L. Olds, C. Cavalcanti, S. Contzen,
M. Zoss, D. Rustagi, Z.L. Urech, M.F. Rabenilalana,
S. Andrade de Sa, D.I. Kiba, C. Orek, S. Patel,
S. Impa Muthappa; H.D.N. Comoé;
p. 66: C. Dirac Ramohavelo;
p. 67: V.K. Hgaza Kouassi;
p. 68: A. Fotso Kuate;
p. 69: P.N. Njau;
p. 71: M. Jemo;
p. 72: C.L. Olds;
p. 73: C. Cavalcanti;
p. 74: S. Contzen;
p. 75: M. Zoss;
p. 76: D. Rustagi;
p. 77: Z.L. Urech;
p. 78: S. Andrade de Sa;
p. 79: D.I. Kiba;
p. 80: C. Orek;
p. 81: S. Patel;
p. 82: S. Impa Muthappa;
p. 83: H.D.N. Comoé;
p. 85: S.R. Barsila;
p. 87: D. Or (left), M. Filippini (right);
p. 89: M. Egloff;
p. 90: NADEL;
p. 91: C. Huggel;
p. 104: S. Abbeddou;
p. 107: M. Egloff;
p. 108: M. Egloff;
p. 109: Ú. Oswald Spring;
p. 111: D. Niedzwiecka;
p. 112: D. Niedzwiecka;
p. 113: F. Hintermann;
p. 114: D. Niedzwiecka;
p. 115: D. Niedzwiecka;
p. 116: M. Zoss;
p. 130: D. Rustagi
Printing
Druckerei Feldegg AG, Schwerzenbach
List of acronyms
All units of the ETH Zurich are in italics.
ACW Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil
ADAPT African dams project, CCES
AGS Alliance for Global Sustainability
AIM Association Intercooperation Madagascar
AIT Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
ALP Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux
ARD Agricultural Research for Development
ART Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon
AVRDC World Vegetable Center
C Carbon
CAS Certificate of Advanced Studies
CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences
CCES Competence Center Environment and
Sustainability of the ETH Domain
CDE Centre for Development and Environment,
University of Bern
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CEPE Centre for Energy Policy and Economics
CFPF Centre de Formation Professionnelle
Forestière, Madagascar
CGIAR Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research
CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture
CIFOR Centre for International Forestry Research
CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Centre
CIP International Potato Centre
ClimPol Climate Policy Making for Enhanced
Technological and Institutional Innovations, CCES
CNRE Centre National de Recherches sur
l’Environnement, Madagascar
CO 2
Carbon dioxide
CSRS Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques,
Côte d’Ivoire
D-AGRL Department of Agricultural and Food
Sciences
D-ARCH Department of Architecture
D-BAUG Department of Civil, Environmental and
Geomatic Engineering
D-BIOL Department of Biology
D-ERDW Department of Earth Sciences
D-GESS Department of Humanities, Social and
Political Sciences
D-INFK Department of Computer Science
D-ITET Department of Information Technology
and Electrical Engineering
D-MTEC Department of Management, Technology
and Economics
D-UWIS Department of Environmental Sciences
DC Developing countries
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DFID Department for International Development, UK
DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
DSM DSM Nutritional Products AG
Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental
Science and Technology
ECOS Laboratory of ecological systems, Lausanne
EPFL Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
ERA-ARD European Research Area on Agricultural
Research for Development
ERA-NET European Research Area Network
ESA Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie, Côte d’Ivoire
ESSA Ecole supérieure des sciences agronomiques,
Université d’Antanarivo, Madagascar
ETHIIRA ETH Independent Investigators’ Research
Awards
EU European Union
FAO Food and Agricultural Organisation of the
United Nations
Fe Iron
FiBL Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau
FOAG Federal Office for Agriculture
GEF Global Environmental Facility
GFAR Global Forum on Agricultural Research
GIS Geographic Information System
GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit
ha Hectare
HGU School of Business, Economics and Law,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IBAMA Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos
Recursos Naturais Renovaveis
ICARDA International Centre for Agricultural
Research in the Dry Areas
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IED Institute for Environmental Decisions
IHEID Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies, Geneva
IIA International Institutional Affairs
IIM Indian Institute of Management
IITA International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
ILRI International Livestock Research Institute
INERA Institut de l’Environnement et Recherches
Agricoles, Burkina Faso
INRA French National Institute for Agricultural
Research
INTA Nicaraguan Institute of Technology
IOB Netherlands Policy and Operations
Evaluation Department of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs,Netherlands
IREDU Institut de Recherche sur l’Éducation,
Université de Bourgogne, France
IRRI International Rice Research Institute
IUCN International Union for the Conservation
of Nature
IUT Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
KARI Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
KFPE Commission for Research Partnerships with
Developing Countries
KfW KfW Entwicklungsbank
Kg Kilogramme
KIRFOR Kyrgyz-Swiss Forestry Support Programme
LAB Lactic acid bacteria
LCA Life cycle assessment
LCV Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire du Mali
MAS Master of Advanced Studies
Mn Manganese
MO Microorganism
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MSc Master of Science
N Nitrogen
NADEL Postgraduate Studies for Developing
Countries
NATURA Network of European institutions for
higher education in agriculture for the tropics and
subtropics (new: AgriNatura)
NCCR North-South National Centre of
Competence in Research North-South
NGO Non-governmental organisation
NSF ATM National Science Foundation,
Atmosphere Program, USA
NSL Network City and Landscape
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
OPEC Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries
P Phosphorus
PRS Poverty reduction strategy
PSI Paul Scherrer Institute
R4D Research for development
RDA Recommended daily allowance
RFPP Research Fellow Partnership Programme
S-ENETH former School Domain of Earth,
Environment and Natural Resources, ETH Zurich
SAHA Programme de Développement Rural,
Intercoopération – Délégation Madagascar
Sandec Department of Water and Sanitation in
Developing Countries, Eawag
scnat Swiss Academy of Sciences
SCRID Sustainable Farming and Rice Cropping
Systems Unit, Madagascar
SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
SECO State Secretariat for Economic Affairs,
Switzerland
SENACYT Ecuadorian Secretary of Science and
Technology
SER State Secretariat for Education and Research,
Switzerland
SFIAR Swiss Forum for International Agricultural
Research
SHL Swiss College of Agriculture, Zollikofen
SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
SNF Schweizerischer Nationalfonds
SPLASH European Research Area Network of the
European Water Initiative
spp. Species
STI Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
(new: Swiss TPH)
STRI Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,
Panama
TWAS Academy of Sciences for the Developing
World
UAS University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore,
India
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
WARDA Africa Rice Center
WBGU German Advisory Council on Global Change
WFP World Food Programme
WHO World Health Organisation
WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and
Landscape Research
WWF World Wide Fund for Nature
ZALF Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape
Research, Germany
ZEF Center for Development Research, University
of Bonn, Germany
ZESCO Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation
Zn Zinc
ZnSO 4
Zinc sulphate
Impressum / List of acronyms