Agricultural Engineering in Tropic and Transformation Countries Agricultural Engineering in Tropics and Subtropics

Since 2013, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Minis-try of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is funding several joint research pro-jects to contribute to food security. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Group of the University of Kassel and Agricultural Engineering Tropics and Subtropics Group of the University of Hohenheim are contributing to those projects to improve the utilization of staple crops in Africa. Focus is on improvement of postharvest technology to reduce food losses and to add value by processing.