Sustainable Agriculture: DAAD Project Brings Together Researchers and Students from Six Countries

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding the project “AgriConnect: Global ICT Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture” through December 2029. The project focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration between fields such as computer science, biology, and epidemiology.

The goal of the current project is to make agriculture more sustainable through technical methods. For example, artificial intelligence or the Internet of Things could be used to optimize the use of resources such as water or fertilizer. The project builds on its predecessor, “Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine,” which ran from 2022 to 2025. That project resulted in dozens of joint publications and projects.

The project is coordinated by Professor Anna Förster, head of the Sustainable Communication Networks research group. The project team also includes researchers from Mahidol University (Thailand), General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (Sri Lanka), the University of Ngaoundere (Cameroon), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) (Cameroon), and the University of Namibia.

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