Recent projects

Argentina

  • Mate: Ilex paraguariensis. Selection for quality. Misiones.
  • Tropical pine trees: Hybrids Pinus eliotti x Pinus hondurensis.

Cameroon

  • cfr. Denis Sonwa

China

  • Coffee
  • Agroforestry

Bolivia

  • Capacity building: Juan Carlos Torrico – Juergen Pohlan.
  • Cocoa growing: INDATROP/Chapare.

Congo

  • Oil palm intercropping with plantain banana, cocoa, papaya and pepper under differen fertiliser schemes – INERA-Yangambi, DR Congo.
  • A cooperative approach for coffee and cocoa production for export in the Mayombe, DR Congo. Marketing “Petit Kwilu” as a specialty coffee.

Colombia

  • Implementation of anaerobic digestion through biorefineries at farm level as a tool for energy and agricultural recovery from swine sewage ASOPORCICULTORES, Colombia- Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries- Universidad de Concepcion, Chile- TROPEN Uni-Bonn.
  • Evaluation ofintegrated nutrition management infloricultureexport.
  • Adapting composting process indicators for sugar mill residues sustainable management.

Chile

  • Effect of the addition of organic matter on soil quality indicators, fruit and agronomic variables in table grape (Vitis vinifera L. var. Thompson Seedless). Ministry of Education, FONDECYT, CONICYT.
  • Biofuels potential in Chile. Chilean Government, ODEPA-FIA-CNE.
  • Monitoring and control of nitrates, heavy metals and pathogens in leaf vegetables. Ministry of Health, CONICYT.
  • Accurate diagnosis of the Casablanca Watershed using Geospatial Technology. Valparaiso Regional Government.

Ecuador

  • Pitahaya (dragon fruit): Exocorp
  • Oil palm: bud rot (Pudricion del cogoglio): Pichincha