Sustainable potato production in Andean urban and peri-urban areas by combining bio-composting and microbial inoculants
COMMINANDES is funded by INCO
Project number: EU-ICA4-CT2002-10016.
To investigate a safe method of composting urban and peri-urban wastes for use with microbial inoculants for sustainable potato production.
Potato is common to urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Andes. Production in this region is low as a result of various abiotic and biotic soil contraints and the recourse to pesticides and fertilizers is frequently too expensive. Recycling of organis waste into compost and management of natural microbial soil inhabitants, which positively impact the developement, nutrition and health of plants - arbuscualr mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)- have been proposed as major agricultural practices to reduce chemical inputs and to improve the ecological potential and sustainability of soils in urban and peri-urban systems. With this respect, the general objective of the proposal is to develop and investigate the combination of composted waste from urban agro-industrieswith indigenous microbial bio-fertilizer inoculants in order to (1) to add value to urban agro-industry waste, (2) to reduce chemical-dependance of small scale agriculturalists and (3) to stimulate local collective (farmers associations and National Government Organisations) to develop micro-sacle composting and management of microbial inoculants.
Members of this consortium hail from all over Europe and South America
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Institution |
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Chief Scientist | |
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Unité
de Microbiologie & Unité de Sciences du Sol |
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium |
DECLERCK, Stéphane (Co Ordinator)
DELVAUX Bruno (Unité des Sciences du Sol) |
declerck@mbla.ucl.ac.be
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National
University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland |
CASSELLS, Alan | a.cassells@ucc.ie |
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Université
d’Angers (UAPHYT), France |
STRULLU, Désiré-Georges | strullu@univ-angers.fr |
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The
Foundation for Research and Promotion of Andean Products (PROINPA) |
Cochabamba,
Bolivia |
FRANCO, Javier | jfranco@proinpa.org |
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National
Roots and Tubers Program-Potato |
Instituto
Nacional Autonomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP),Quito,Ecuador |
BERNAL, Gustavo | g3bernal@punto.net.ec |
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Departamento
de Biofertilizantes |
Instituto
de Ecología y Systemática, Ministerio de Ciencias,Technología y
Medio Ambiente (IES-CITMA), Cuba |
HERRERA PERAZA, Ricardo A | nydia.cabrera@infomed.sld.cu |
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International
Potato Centre (CIP) |
Lima,
Peru |
DEVAUX, André | a.devaux@cgiar.org |
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