Bern University of Applied Sciences
School of Agricultural, Forest and
Food Sciences HAFL
Projects in international agriculture
List of mandates and projects implemented during the last 3 years by members of the team International Agriculture of HAFL
(updated: 23 February 2016)
Agricultural production systems
Project name
Partner / client
Location
Time
HAFL staff involved
Water Tools - Werkzeuge für nachhaltige und produktive
Wassernutzung in der kleinbäuerlichen Landwirtschaft
[WEB]
iDE
Central/Latin
America, West
Africa, Asia
01.01.2014 –
31.12.2016
Christoph Studer,
Simon Spöhel
Appui Suisse aux Associations Professionnelles Marocaines
[WEB]
SDC, SBA
Morocco
09.2013 –
02.2017
Pascale Waelti, Alessandra
Giuliani, Urs Egger
Gestion intégrée des bassins versants au Moyen Atlas
CDE
Morocco
01.01.2016 31.12.2017
Christoph Studer, Pascale
Wälti, Alessandra Giuliani
Survey on the livestock situation for NRM project in Borana
Zone, Ethopia
Helvetas Swiss
Interccoperation
Ethiopia
16.11.201531.12.2015
Pascale Wälti
Water efficiency tool for the Fairtrade Water Project [WEB]
Coop, International
Development Enterprises
Guatemala,
Honduras,
Nicaragua
01.01.2011 –
31.07.2013
Christoph Studer,
Simon Spöhel
Support of FAO Global Agenda of Action for Sustainable
Livestock Sector Development [WEB]
BLW, FAO
Global
01.10.2011 –
31.12.2013
Fritz Schneider,
Harald Menzi
Project name
Partner / client
Location
Time
HAFL staff involved
Appui au développement de la filière semences
GIZ, SDC
Chad
09.2013 –
12.2018
Dominique Guenat, Urs
Scheidegger, Pascale Waelti
Assessment of cross-border trade of cattle and buffaloes
between northern Vietnam and China
Office International des
Epizooties (OIE)
Vietnam
01.2014 –
02.2014
Nancy Bourgeois Lüthi
Access to markets and value chains
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Value Chain Workshop Rwanda
KFPE
Rwanda
01.07.2013 –
31.05.2014
Ingrid Fromm
Promoting sustainable production methods and socioenvironmental certifications among small-scale cocoa
farmers in Ghana
[WEB]
KFH, Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and
Technology
Ghana
07.201206.2013
Ingrid Fromm
Society and policies
Project name
Partner / client
Location
Time
HAFL staff involved
Biofertilization and Bioirrigation for sustainable
mixed cropping of pigeon pea and finger millet
(BIOFI)
[WEB]
Bharathiar University, FIBL,
ICRISAT, Uni Basel, ISCB, MS
Swaminathan Research
Foundation, Pondicherry
University, Small Millets, GKVK
Bangalore
India
01.06.201431.05.2017
Dominic Blättler, Dominique
Guenat, Urs Scheidegger,
Alessandra Giuliani, Pia
Fehle, Urs Egger, Karin
Zbinden, Ingrid Fromm
Socio-economic research in the Indo-Swiss Cassava
Biotechnology Research Network
[WEB]
ISCB, TNAU, CTCRI, ETH Central
Tuber Crops Research Institute
(ICAR-CTCRI), Uni Basel
India
01.12.201431.11.2017
Alessandra Giuliani,
Dominique Guenat, Pia
Fehle, Ladina Knapp
Improvement of pigeon pea for plant type, early
maturity, pod borer resistance and moisture stress
tolerance
ISCB, National Research Centre
on Plant Biotechnology,
Agricultural Research Institute,
National Bureau of Plant Genetic
Resources, ETH and UZH
Functional Genomics Center
India
01.04.201531.03.2018
Urs Egger, Ingrid Fromm
Potentials and limitations for improved natural
resource management (NRM) in small watersheds in
the Rustaq district [WEB]
SDC
Afghanistan
01.05.201530.04.2016
Dominic Blättler
Nutrition pattern of Somali in Switzerland and their
country of origin
[WEB]
WGS / BFH
Switzerland /
Horn of Africa
2015-2016
Pascale Waelti, Alessandra
Giuliani, Karin Zbinden
Realities, Aspirations and Challenges of Rural Youth
Living in Agricultural Dryland Areas
ICARDA / YPARD
Morocco
1.8.201531.05.2016
Alessandra Giuliani
Linking Herders to Carbon Markets
[WEB]
SDC, Mongolian Society for
Range Management, Unique
Mongolia
20.07.2011 –
31.12.2013
Dominique Guenat, Johanna
Gysin, Thomas Brunner,
Karin Zbinden, Therese
Haller, Dominic Blättler
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Knowledge management and networks
Project name
Partner / client
Location
Time
HAFL staff involved
Staatssekretariat für
Migration (SEM)
Nigeria
01.01.2015 31.12.2016
Robert Lehmann, Ingrid
Fromm, Barbara Vogt
Secretariat of the Swiss Forum for International
Agricultural Research [WEB]
SDC, BLW, Syngenta
Foundation
Switzerland
01.01.2014 –
31.12.2017
Felix Hintermann, Bettina
Stäubli, Alessandra Giuliani
Support for the reform of an agriculture and forestry
college in Laos [WEB]
SDC, Luang Prabang
Agriculture and Forestry
College
Laos
01.02.2013 –
30.11.2016
Dominique Guenat, Karin
Zbinden, Roland Stähli,
Maria Klossner, Hans
Schaltenbrand, Nancy
Bourgeois Lüthi
Support for the reform of VET in Agriculture in Benin
HELVETAS / PAFPAA
Benin
01.01.2014 –
31.12.2016
Roland Stähli, Karin
Zbinden, Dominique Guenat
Support for SDC Agriculture and Food Security Network
[WEB]
SDC, Global Programme
Food Security
Global
01.01.2015 –
31.03.2016
Felix Hintermann
Yezin Agricultural University YAU, Myanmar: Need analysis
for capacity development and a strategic partnership
HAFL-YAU (student exchange)
YAU, SDC, Helvetas Swiss
Intercooperation
Naypyidaw,
Myanmar
23.5.27.5.2015
Hans Schaltenbrand
Mélanie Feurer
EMBA Gabon
Gabonese Republic,
Canton of Bern, BFH, EHB
Gabon
01.10.2011 –
31.12.2015
Roland Stähli, Barbara Vogt,
Peter Schwab
Young Professionals‘ Platform for Agricultural Research for
Development - YPARD Europe coordination [WEB]
YPARD
Switzerland /
Europe
01.01.2014 –
30.06.2015
Martina Graf, Rahel Wyss,
Alessandra Giuliani
Animal Health Project Mongolia [WEB]
SDC and others
Mongolia
01.01.2012 –
31.12.2015
Fritz Schneider, Robert
Lehmann, Barbara Vogt
Capacity Building in Agricultural Education in Nigeria (2
phase), focus value chain development and capacity
building of key actors [WEB]
nd
Project cycle management
Project name
Partner / client
Location
Time
HAFL staff involved
Analysis of the SDC Agriculture and Food Security portfolio
in Vietnam 1994-2016 [WEB]
SDC Vietnam
Vietnam
15.07.201530.06.2016
Dominique Guenat
Backstopping and support for Financial and Economic
Analysis of SDC projects [WEB]
SDC
worldwide
2015-2016
Dominique Guenat,
Alessandra Giuliani, Rahel
Wyss, Felix Hintermann
Accompagnement de l’élaboration de la stratégie de
cooperation 2017-2020 de la DDC au Burkina Faso
SDC
Burkina Faso
18.01.201631.12.2016
Dominique Guenat
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Evaluation of the Food Aid with Swiss dairy products
programme [WEB]
SDC,
Humanitarian Aid
Switzerland, Burundi,
Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire,
Burkina Faso, Sudan
(incl. North Darfur), Haiti
09.2014 –
07.2015
Fritz Schneider, Urs Egger,
Pascale Waelti, Nancy
Bourgeois Lüthi
Planning Mission VEGI Mongolia
SDC
Mongolia
01.06.201531.07.2015
Dominique Guenat,
Alessandra Giuliani
Support to the Mid-Term Review of the Swiss Cooperation
Strategy Bolivia
SDC
Bolivia
2015
Ingrid Fromm
Mid-Term assessment “Support to the Reform of the
Northern Agriculture and Forestry College, Luang Prabang
SDC
Laos
21.04.201505.05.2015
Urs Egger
External Review of Sustainable Land Management Project
(SLMP) in Afghanistan
SDC
Afghanistan
10./11.2014
Dominic Blättler
Midterm Review: Rural economic development programme
for the southern regions of Georgia (RED)
SDC/Danida
Georgia
04.2014 –
05.2014
Urs Egger
External Review : Market Opportunities for Livelihood
Improvement (MOLI) in Kakheti
SDC
Georgia
09.2014 –
10.2014
Urs Egger
Project support for FiBL farming systems comparison in
the tropics [WEB]
FiBL
Kenya, Bolivia, India
2009, 2010,
2013
Urs Scheidegger, Christoph
Studer, Ingrid Fromm
External review Plantwise (Global plant health program of
CABI)
CABI, SDC
Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
Kenya, Tanzania
2013
Urs Scheidegger
Impact assessment of STAR program in Kyrgyzstan
Helvetas
Kyrgyzstan
09.-12.2013
Karin Zbinden, Roland Stähli
External Impact Assessment of the STAR program in
Kyrgyzstan
Helvetas
Kyrgyzstan
2013
Karin Zbinden
External Review of the ASEAN-Swiss Partnership Program
for Social Forestry and Climate Change
SDC, Global
Programme
Climate Change
Thailand, Indonesia,
Vietnam
03./04.2013
Hans Schaltenbrand
Support to the mid-term review and strategic reorientation of the Global Program Food Security of SDC
SDC
Switzerland
2012-2013
Urs Scheidegger, Dominic
Blättler
Support to prepare offer for seed production project in
Chad
GIZ
Switzerland / Chad
06.2013
Pascale Waelti, Dominique
Guenat
Support to prepare offer for pastoralism project in Chad
GIZ
Switzerland / Chad
08./09.2013
Pascale Waelti
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