Completed Projects

completed project

CONPLETED PROJECTS

  • Japan Science and Technology grant of 125,000 Ghana cedis for “Promotion of domestication of grasscutters for environmental protection and food safety in West Africa” project (April 2020 - February 2021).
  • Innovate UK Agritech Catalyst grant 200,000 British pounds for “Production Breeding and Market Development of Grasscutter in Ghana” project (September 2019 – February 2021).
  • Canon Foundation fellowship of 8,300 euros for “Sequencing and mapping of the grasscutter (Thryonomys swinderianus) genome to identify genes relevant for domestication” at Kyoto University (June – September 2018).
  • Ajinomoto Foundation AIN Food and Nutrition support programme grant of 9,000,000 Japanese yen for “Grasscutter Keeping for the Improvement in Nutrition Intake in Ghana” project (April 2018 – March 2021).
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grant of 4,000,000 Japanese yen to sequence and analyse the grasscutter genome (2018 – 2021).
  • JICA Grassroot Grant of 50,000,000 Japanese yen for “Enhancing Livelihoods in Ghana through Improvement in Native Livestock Production” project (2014 – 2017)