Improving income and nutrition in eastern and southern Africa by enhancing vegetable-based farming and food systems in peri-urban corridors (VINESA)

Lamu Island market, Kenya. Photo credit M Wood, AIFSC
Lamu Island market, Kenya. Photo credit M Wood, AIFSC
Vegetable market. Photo credit AVRDC
Vegetable market. Photo credit AVRDC
Project leader: 
The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC), Dr John Macharia
ACIAR project manager: 
Dr Richard Markham
Start Date: 
24 June 2013
End Date: 
31 December 2016
Partners: 
• The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)
• Africare Malawi
• Applied Horticultural Research (AHR)
• Ben Dent
• Department of Agricultural Research Services and Technical Services (DARTS)
Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
Malawi
• Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
• ICRISAT
• Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM) - Mozambique
• International Development Enterprise (IDE)
• International Potato Center (CIP)
• Sokoine University of Agriculture
• University of Queensland
AIFSC Investment: 
$2.6 million
Co-contribution: 
$1.8 million

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