{"id":3203,"date":"2024-02-27T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/led.digicube.dev\/led-boss-on-the-upscale-advisory-committee\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:08:56","slug":"led-boss-on-the-upscale-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/led-boss-on-the-upscale-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"LED boss on the &#8220;UPSCALE&#8221; advisory committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/upscale-h2020.eu\/\">UPSCALE<\/a> research project aims to significantly improve food security, livelihoods and resilience to climate change in sub-Saharan and East Africa. The central aim is to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural practices as much as possible or even compensate for it completely. <\/p>\n\n<p>LED Managing Director Andreas Sicks has been a member of the UPSCALE Advisory Committee since 2020. In this role, the expert in development cooperation and food systems took part in the UPSCALE* annual meeting in Entebbe, Uganda, at the end of January. There, around 70 representatives from 18 partner organizations from four European and six African countries shared their experiences and research findings. Sustainable push-pull technology (PPT) plays a central role in achieving the ambitious goals mentioned. Andreas Sicks is convinced of the demonstrably transformative potential of PP technology and cultivation methods and supports the UPSCALE project&#8217;s goal of expanding the ecological method from individual fields to larger agricultural landscapes and regions in East Africa and from cereals such as millet and maize to other crops and cultivation systems.    <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The LED supported the push-pull cultivation method from 2020 to 2022<\/strong> (see LED-JB 22). It can drastically increase crop yields and dispense with the use of pesticides. <\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7135903030276726785\/\"><strong>Video explaining push-pull (English)<\/strong><\/a>  <\/p>\n\n<p>*UPSCALE is a research and innovation project with a duration of five years and a budget of 7.66 million euros, which will run until 2025 under the leadership of Justus Liebig University Giessen (DE)<\/p>\n\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"318\" class=\"gb-media-a6ddc530\" alt=\"Gruppenfoto von Teilnehmenden und LED-Vertretenden bei einer Fachveranstaltung im Saal\" title=\"Upscale Uganda_cut\" src=\"https:\/\/led.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Upscale-Uganda_cut-768x318.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/led.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Upscale-Uganda_cut-768x318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/led.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Upscale-Uganda_cut-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/led.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Upscale-Uganda_cut-1024x424.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/led.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Upscale-Uganda_cut-1536x636.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/led.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Upscale-Uganda_cut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figcaption class=\"gb-text\">LED Managing Director Andreas Sicks attended the UPSCALE annual meeting in Entebbe, Uganda, at the end of January<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"gb-text small__font\">Photo: UPSCALE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UPSCALE research project aims to significantly improve food security, livelihoods and resilience to climate change in sub-Saharan and East Africa. The central aim is to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural practices as much as possible or even compensate for it completely. LED Managing Director Andreas Sicks has been a member of the UPSCALE &#8230; <a title=\"LED boss on the &#8220;UPSCALE&#8221; advisory committee\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/led-boss-on-the-upscale-advisory-committee\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LED boss on the &#8220;UPSCALE&#8221; advisory committee\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}