The NM-AIST currently has 63 projects running. Details of the projects can be found under their respective schools.

School of Computational and Communication Science and Engineering (CoCSE)

  1. VLIR-UOS project on institutional strengthening through ICT and Information services
  2. Centre of excellence for ICT in East Africa
  3. Automated Poultry Diseases Diagnostics using Deep Learning
  4. An extension support system for small holder farmers
  5. An agricultural solution system for Tanzania
  6. An electronic logistic and transport system
  7. Digital Farming
  8. Drowsiness Detection System

School of Life Science and Bio-Engineering (LiSBE)

  1. Africa Centre for Research, Agricultural advancement, Teaching Excellence And Sustainability (CREATES)
  2. Social, Economic and Environmental Drivers of Zoonoses in Tanzania (SEEDZ)
  3. Bush Meat Project
  4. Project for Enhancing the Health and Productivity of Livestock (PEPHL)
  5. Afrique One – ASPIRE
  6. PPR infectivity studies
  7. Realizing land management change in degraded Maasai grazing land
  8. Farmers Research Network to Evaluate Sustainable Agro ecological crop protection using pesticidal plants
  9. Evaluation of Stress tolerant orphan legumes (STOL) for off –season planting to improve the Farmers sustainability and nutritional security
  10. Managing Invasive Plant Species in Ngorongoro Area
  11. Natural Pest Regulation on Orphan Crop Legumes in Africa (NaPROCLA)
  12. Biological control of insect crop pests and disease vectors
  13. Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) Project
  14. Trial to establish causal linkage between mycotoxin exposure and child stunting (Mycotoxins Mitigation Trial-MMT)
  15. Singida Nutrition and Agro ecological Project (SNAP)
  16. Raising crop response:Bidirectional learning,to catalyze sustainable,intensification at multiple scales
  17. Partnership and Capacity for Teaching and Training in Food Safety and Nutrition
  18. Microcystins exposure, biomarker validation and application in human studies
  19. Strengthening African Food Processors to Reduce Losses (SAP)
  20. Fruits and vegetables for all seasons: Improved resource-efficient processing techniques and new market solutions for surplus fruits and vegetables for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa (FRUVASE)
  21. Supporting the National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance [SNAP-AMR] in Tanzania
  22. Epidemiology and Genetic Association of key zoonoses in small holder dairy cattle in Tanzania.
  23. NM-AIST Medicinal Garden, funded by UND
  24. DDI – Data Driven Innovation Centre through CREATES
  25. The impacts of Gender inequality on Climate Change Adaptations and the livelihoods of Marginalized Communities around Protected Areas in Tanzania
  26. ICE Memory Tanzania
  27. WildNet
  28. Applied aquatic ecology
  29. Hybrid potato seed: perception and market opportunities in Tanzania
  30. Sustainable smallholder banana-based farming systems to improve livelihoods of communities in Northern Tanzania, Pangani region
  31. ESIDA: Epidemiological Surveillance for Infectious Diseases in Sub-Sahara Africa
  32. TanzIn
  33. Prevalence of aflatoxins in animal feeds and raw milk along the dairy value chain in three agro-ecological zones of Tanzania
  34. Mobile Phone enabled Diagnostics for Infectious Disease Diagnosis. Low Cost Tools for Digital Health in East Africa (Seed fund for development of major proposal)
  35. Cattle vaccination against MCF: Balancing pastoral livelihoods, food security and ecosystem integrity in the Serengeti, Tanzania
  36. Fighting stunting in Tanzania
  37. Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) infectivity studies
  38. The impacts of Gender inequality on Climate Change Adaptations and the livelihoods of Marginalized Communities around Protected Areas in Tanzania
  39. Data Driven Innovation for Food and Nutritional Security
  40. ICE Memory Tanzania
  41. Evaluation of Stress tolerant orphan legumes (STOL) for off –season planting to improve the Farmers sustainability and nutritional security
  42. Biological control of insect crop pests and disease vectors
  43. ESIDA: Epidemiological Surveillance for Infectious Diseases in Sub-Sahara Africa

School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES)

  1. Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Futures (WISE FUTURES)
  2. Evaluation of suitability of water hyacinth from Lake Victoria-Tanzania as a feedstock for Biofuel Production
  3. BIOINNOVATE PROJECT: Establishment of a regional enterprise to commercialize the integrated technologies for agro/biowaste conversion in eastern Africa
  4. Solar-assisted Heat Pump Drying Technology for Industrial and Agricultural Applications in Tanzania
  5. Africa Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) in the Partnership for Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET)
  6. Inclined Plate Settlers (IPS) for pre-treatment of community potable water supply in Nadosoito
  7. Leveraging transfer of Low-cost water filters (Nanofilter) technology from Tanzania to Zambia
  8. Linking East and West African Farming Systems Experience into a BELT of Sustainable Intensification – EWA-BELT
  9. Dynamics of Environmental Geochemistry and Health in a Lake-wide Basin.
  10. The Social Science of Climate Change Adaptation: Advancing academic writing for early career academics in Tanzania

The school of Business Studies and Humanities (BuSH)

  1. Testing and Scaling-up Application of Innovative Animal Feeding and Health Management Technologies for Improved Dairy Productivity among Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania.
  2. Innovations and Markets for Lake Victoria Fisheries- IMLAF.