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AIMS MS4CR Open Opportunities (4th Call)

  1. Model-based optimization of smallholder agronomic advisories (maize).

    Host Institution ICRISAT | agCelerant-Ethiopia, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Supervisors :     Kindie Tesfaye | Jacob Emmanuel | Pierre C. Sibiry Traore

2. Model-based optimization of smallholder agronomic advisories (peanut).

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors : Aliou Faye | Jacob Emmanuel | Pierre C. Sibiry Traore

3. Improving district-level forecasts of maize yields

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Mali, Bamako, Mali

Supervisors: Steven Ndung’u | Vakhtang Shelia | Pierre C. Sibiry Traore

4. AI prediction of agricultural financing decisions under risk

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Allegra A.B. Cohen

5. Digital smallholder soil mapping using EO and machine leaning

Host institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Mali, Bamako, Mali

Supervisors: Steven Ndung’u | Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Andree M. Nenkam

6. AI improving farm typologies and customer segmentation

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Cedric Champenois

7. Development of a market analytics module for PICSA

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Ghana, Accra, Ghana

       Supervisors : Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Francis Torgbor | Danny Parsons

8. Mapping of mixed cropping intensity in smallholder plots

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Allegra A.B. Cohen

9. EO data assimilation workflow prototype

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Cedric Champenois

10. EO reducing rainfed smallholder field delineation costs

Host Institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Cedric Champenois

11. AI reducing basis risk in smallholder crop insurance

Host Institution: : ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors : Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Daniel Annerose

12. Real-time error detection in IoT networks

Host institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Cedric

13. Operational prediction of smallholder yields in-season

Host institution: ICRISAT | agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Supervisors: Pierre C. Sibiry Traore | Steven Ndung’u | Cedric Champenois

14. Municipal index of climate vulnerability in Colombia 2020: A multidimensional approach on social, economic and environmental issues

Host Institution: The Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico Internacional (CEPEI), Cra. 3 #11-55, Bogotá, Colombia, Tel: +57-1-3001051 |
Email: contacto@cepei.org

Supervisors : Fredy Rodríguez, Data Coordinator | Jamiil Toure Ali, Data Scientist 

15. The Agricultural Climate Resilience enhancement initiative Project (ACREI)

Host Institution: IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC), Ngong Town Kibiku A Road, P.O. Box 10304-00100, Nairobi, Kenya | Tel: +254 0203514426

Supervisors: Dr Linda Ogallo, Climate Change Adaptation Expert, ICPAC

16. Rural Livelihoods’ Adaptation to Climate Change in The Horn of Africa Ii (Rlacc Ii).

Host institution: IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC), Ngong Town Kibiku A Road, P.O. Box 10304-00100, Nairobi, Kenya | Tel: +254 0203514426
Supervisors : Dr Linda Ogallo, Climate Change Adaptation Expert, ICPAC

17. Correlation between long term climate data and conflict data in an effort to understand the linkages

Host Institution: IGADs Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWAN), P.O.Box 58652, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Supervisors : Dr. Sunday Angoma OKELLO, Conflict Analyst

18. Incorporating satellite and reanalysis data with station data and adding mapping facilities

Host Institution: African Mathematics Initiative (AMI), Maseno, Kenya.

Supervisors: James K Musyoka | Danny Parsons, IDEMS International, Reading, UK

19. Visualization and analysis of streamflow data

Host Institution: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), P.O. Box 62 000 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya

Supervisors: John M. Gathenya, PhD (mgathenya@gmail.com), Professor, Hydrology, Climate Services, Environmental Services, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, School of Biosystems and Environmental Engineering

Roger Stern (r.d.stern@reading.ac.uk), Professor of Applied Statistics (Emeritus), University of Reading, UK

20. Regionalization of GR4J model parameters and generation of streamflow data for periods and locations without observations

Host institution: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), P.O. Box 62 000 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya

Supervisors: John M. Gathenya, PhD (mgathenya@gmail.com), Professor, Hydrology, Climate Services, Environmental Services, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, School of Biosystems and Environmental Engineering

 Roger Stern (r.d.stern@reading.ac.uk), Professor of Applied Statistics (Emeritus), University of Reading, UK

21. Catchment water balance

Host institution: ICRISAT / agCelerant-Senegal, Dakar

Supervisors: John M. Gathenya, PhD (mgathenya@gmail.com), Professor, Hydrology, Climate Services, Environmental Services, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, School of Biosystems and Environmental Engineering

Roger Stern (r.d.stern@reading.ac.uk), Professor of Applied Statistics (Emeritus), University of Reading, UK

22. Developing Operational Climate services and training

Host institution: African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), 55 avenue des ministères, PL6 P.O. Box 13184 Niamey-Niger | Tel : +227 20 72 36 27 

 Supervisors:     Dr. Andre Kamga, DG / ACMAD

Razafindrakoto Leon Guy, Chief Weather Watch and Forecasting Department /ACMAD

Prof Roger Stern, University of Reading

23. Elucidating the pollinator dependency of selected crops in Rwanda

Host institution: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kigali, Rwanda

Supervisors:  Dr Rosita Yocgo, ryocgo@nexteinstein.org
Athanase Mukuralinda, a.mukuralinda@cgiar.org

24. Impact of climate shifts on the future distribution of pollinator dependent crops across East Africa

 Host institution: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Kigali, Rwanda

Supervisors: Dr Rosita Yocgo, ryocgo@nexteinstein.org 

Desire Kagabo, d.kagabo@cgiar.org (TBC)

25. How tightly bound are CO2 fluxes to temperature in different biomes – a complexity analysis

Host institution: Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, Km 17 Recta Cali-Palmira C.P. 763537 – A.A. 6713, Cali, Colombia
Supervisors: Ashleigh Basel , Email : basel@cgiar.org
Alessandro Craparo, Email : craparo@cgiar.org

26. Digitization of Kenya County Climate Risk Profiles

Host Institution: The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, CIAT Regional Office for Africa| Duduville Campus, off Kasarani Road, P.O. Box 823-00621, Nairobi, Kenya | Phone: +254 20 8632800 | +254 721 574967

 Supervisors:           

27. High resolution mapping of crop distribution at global scale: updating past/current information and predicting the future

Host institution: The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, CIAT Regional Office for Africa| Duduville Campus, off Kasarani Road, P.O. Box 823-00621, Nairobi, Kenya | Phone: +254 20 8632800 | +254 721 574967

 Supervisors:  Aniruddha Ghosh, Email: ghosh@cgiar.org
Jawoo Koo, Email: koo@cgiar.org | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 1201 Eye St., NW, Washington, DC 20005-3915 USA

28. Smart agriculture system based on big data and AI

Host institution: International University of Casablanca, Institut National Polytechnique – Houphouët Felix, Route provincial 3020, Casablanca 50169, Morocco, INP-HB, DFR-GEE, BP 1093 Yamoussoukro – Côte d’Ivoire

Supervisors: 

Wilfried Yves Hamilton Adoni, Computer Science Professor, PhD Big Data and AI, wilfried.adoni@uic.ac.ma

Dr Zoueu Thouakesseh Jeremie, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Unit in Electronic and Electricity, Coordinator of African, Spectral Imaging Network, Vice-President of the Ivorian Physical Society, zoueu@inphb.ci

29. Conversion of CO2 to power

Host institution: Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP), 10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors: Eng. Aline Uwasempabuka | E-mail: auwasempabuka@edcl.reg.rw     

Eng. Jean Clement Nshubijeho | E-mail: jcnshubijeho@edcl.reg.rw

30. Gasoline production from Lake Kivu and Kabuno Bay

Host Institution: Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP)10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors:Eng. Aline Uwasempabuka | E-mail: auwasempabuka@edcl.reg.rw

31. Set up physical chemical baseline of upcoming gas extraction plants GEF (SPLK, GAS METH)

Host Institution: Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP)10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors: Mrs. Janviere Tuyisenge | E-mail: jatuyisenge@edcl.reg.rw

32. Set up physical chemical baseline of upcoming gas extraction plants GEF (SPLK, GAS METH)

Host Institution:

Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP)10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors:
Mr. Kamana Aimable | E-mail: akamana@edcl.reg.rw

33. Monitoring of weather and water levels of Lake Kivu

Host Institution: Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP)10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors: Mr. Gaetan SAKINDI | E-mail: gsakindi@edcl.reg.rw

34. Evaluation of Zooplanktons of Lake Kivu.

Host Institution:

Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP)10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors:

Mr. Eric MUDAKIKWA RUHANAMIRINDI | E-mail: emudakikwa@edcl.reg.rw

35. Evaluation of Zooplanktons of Lake Kivu.

Host Institution:

Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) | Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL)/Lake Kivu Monitoring Programme (LKMP)10th Floor KCT, KN 2 ST, Nyarugenge District, P.O. Box 3855 Kigali, Rwanda. Tel. +(250)787172265 | info@edcl.reg.rw | www.reg.rw;http://www.lakekivu.org/

Supervisors:
Mrs. Stephanie KAMONDO | E-mail: skamondo@edcl.reg.rw