

Biotechnology
The Research Into Use Programme (RIU)
Region:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60328/Default.aspx Description:
Research into Use (RIU) is
Project Date:
Fri, 01/06/2006
Organization:
Research Into Results Ltd, University of Edinburgh
- Acacia
- access to information
- action planning
- advocacy
- aflatoxins
- African trypanosomiasis
- agricultural and rural development
- Agricultural Development
- agricultural information
- Agricultural Policy
- agricultural research
- agricultural sector
- agriculture
- Agroforestry
- agronomy
- anaemia
- animal diseases
- animal feeding
- animal feeds
- animal health
- animal husbandry
- animal nutrition
- animal power
- animal production
- animal welfare
- Aquaculture
- aquaculture development
- aquaculture techniques
- Arachis hypogaea
- armyworms
- baits
- banana bunchy top virus
- bananas
- barley
- Beans
- biodiversity
- biological control
- biological control organisms
- biopesticides
- Biotechnology
- botanical pesticides
- Breeding
- Cajanus cajan
- Capacity Building
- carp
- Case Studies
- cassava
- cassava mosaic virus
- catchment hydrology
- cattle
- cereals
- checklists
- chickens
- chickpeas
- children
- Climate
- coastal areas
- coastal fisheries
- Cocoa
- coconut oil
- coconuts
- Coffee
- commercialization
- communicable diseases
- communication
- communication technology
- communications media
- communities
- community forestry
- community involvement
- community-based organizations
- computer simulation
- computer software
- conflict
- consensus building
- Contract Farming
- Contracts
- cost benefit analysis
- costs
- Cotton
- cotton industry
- cowpeas
- crabs
- Credit
- crop losses
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- crop protection
- crop residues
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- cultivation
- dairy cattle
- dairy industry
- data analysis
- data processing
- databases
- decentralization
- decision making
- Development
- development planning
- development policy
- development projects
- diagnosis
- diagnostic techniques
- diet
- diet studies
- dietary supplements
- diffusion of information
- diffusion of research
- direct sowing
- disease control
- disease resistance
- disease transmission
- disease vectors
- dissemination of research
- Diversification
- dogs
- domestic markets
- Draught Animal Power
- draught animals
- drought resistance
- drying
- Early Warning Systems
- East Coast Fever
- economic analysis
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth
- economic plants
- education and training
- empowerment
- Environment
- environmental conditions
- equipment
- erosion
- erosion control
- Evaluation
- exports
- Extension
- extension activities
- extension services
- fallow
- farm storage
- farmer outreach
- farmer participatory research
- farmers
- farmers associations
- farmers income
- farming
- Farming systems
- feed crops
- feeding systems
- feeds
- feedstuffs
- fermentation
- Fertilizers
- finger millet
- fish
- fish culture
- fish diseases
- fish farming
- Fish Genetics
- fish hatcheries
- fish industry
- fish processing
- fish products
- fisheries
- fisheries management
- fishermen
- fishery development
- fishery management
- fishery policy
- flours
- fodder
- fodder production
- food analysis
- food contamination
- Food Crops
- food hygiene
- food processing
- Food Products
- Food Safety
- Forecasting
- forest management
- forest policy
- forest products
- forest resources
- forestry
- forests
- fruit
- fruit crops
- fruit flies
- fruit vegetables
- Fruits
- fuelwood
- fungal diseases
- fungicides
- Fusarium
- gender
- genetic engineering
- genetic transformation
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- global warming
- Globalization
- GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
- goats
- gossypium
- governance
- grain crops
- grain legumes
- grazing
- grazing lands
- green manures
- groundnuts
- Harvesting
- health
- herbicides
- highlands
- horticulture
- households
- human diseases
- hydrological models
- Hydrology
- hygiene
- ICTs (information and communication technologies)
- identification
- impact assessment
- implementation
- indigenous knowledge
- industrial crops
- infiltration
- information
- information dissemination
- information flow
- information management
- information needs
- information provision
- information services
- information sources
- Information systems
- information technology
- Infrastructure
- inland fisheries
- innovation
- innovation adoption
- innovation partnerships
- insect pests
- insect vectors
- insecticides
- insects
- institutional capacity
- institutional development
- institutional issues
- intensification
- intercropping
- intermediate means of transport
- internet
- introduced varieties
- invertebrate viruses
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- irrigated rice
- irrigation
- knowledge
- knowledge management
- knowledge sharing
- lake fisheries
- lakes
- land management
- land use
- land use change
- land use planning
- Learning
- legislation
- legumes
- lentils
- lessons learned
- liming
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock development
- livestock farming systems
- livestock management
- livestock production
- livestock trypanosomiasis
- locusts
- losses
- Maize
- mangoes
- manuals
- manufacture
- market intelligence
- market research
- Marketing
- marketing channels
- markets
- mechanization
- medicinal plants
- Microcredit
- microirrigation
- milk production
- milk yield
- millet
- models
- Monitoring
- multipurpose trees
- mung beans
- mycotoxins
- natural drying
- natural resources
- nematode control
- nematode infections
- nematodes
- networking
- non-motorized transport
- non-wood forest products
- nutritive value
- nuts
- oilseeds
- Oryza sativa
- parasites
- parasitic diseases
- parthenium
- participation
- participatory development
- participatory research
- pearl millet
- peri-urban areas
- peri-urban communities
- pest control
- pest insects
- Pest Management
- pest resistance
- Pesticides
- Pests
- Phaseolus
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Pheromone traps
- photography
- pigeon peas
- planning
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- plant establishment
- plant genetic resources
- plant nematodes
- plant nutrition
- plant pathology
- plant pests
- plant protection
- plant viruses
- plantations
- plants
- Policy
- politics
- pollution
- ponds
- postharvest
- postharvest losses
- postharvest technology
- potatoes
- poultry
- poultry farming
- Poverty
- Poverty Reduction
- poverty reduction strategies
- presses
- Private Sector
- processing
- processing technology
- project evaluation
- Prosopis juliflora
- Prostephanus truncatus
- public finance
- public health
- public private partnerships
- quality control
- rabies
- radio
- rain
- rainfed farming
- rainwater
- Remote Sensing
- renewable natural resources
- renewable resources
- Research
- research methods
- research monitoring
- research networks
- research projects
- research uptake
- research workers
- resources
- restocking
- Rice
- rice field aquaculture
- rice tungro virus
- road infrastructure
- root rots
- root systems
- rooting
- rotational cropping
- rubber
- rural areas
- rural communication
- rural communities
- Rural development
- rural livelihoods
- seafoods
- seed certification
- seed industry
- seed potatoes
- seed production
- seed quality
- seed storage
- seed treatment
- Seeds
- self help
- semiarid zones
- sheep
- silos
- Simulation Models
- skills training
- small and medium enterprises
- small animal rearing
- small businesses
- small enterprises
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- social capital
- socioeconomic development
- socioeconomics
- soil conservation
- soil erosion
- soil fertility
- soil management
- soil pollution
- soil quality
- solar energy
- Sorghum
- Soybeans
- Spodoptera
- Spodoptera exempta
- stakeholders
- starch
- starch crops
- starch industry
- Statistics
- Storage
- storage losses
- storage structures
- stored products pests
- straw
- Striga
- Striga asiatica
- subsistence farming
- sustainability
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainable Development
- sustainable livelihoods
- sweet potatoes
- tannins
- technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Tectona grandis
- television
- testing
- tilapia
- tillage
- tillage equipment
- timber
- tissue culture
- tomatoes
- toolkits
- tools
- trace elements
- trade policy
- traditional medicines
- Training
- training packs
- training programmes
- transgenic plants
- transport
- trapping
- traps
- tree crops
- tree fodders
- trees
- tropical coastal aquaculture
- tropical forests
- tropical fruits
- tropics
- Trypanosoma
- trypanosomiasis
- tuberculosis
- tubers
- urban agriculture
- urban areas
- urban development
- urban planning
- urbanisation
- vaccination
- vaccines
- varieties
- variety trials
- vegetable crops
- vegetable growing
- Vegetables
- veterinary services
- video
- Vigna mungo
- vigna subterranea
- Water
- water conservation
- water development
- Water harvesting
- water management
- water pollution
- water resources
- Water use
- watershed management
- watersheds
- websites
- weed control
- weeds
- Wheat
- whiteflies
- women
- working animals
- Xanthomonas
- yams
- youth
- Zea mays
- zoonoses
Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development (SARID)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60112/Default.aspx Description:
The scheme is one of the ne
Project Date:
Sat, 01/07/2006 - Thu, 01/07/2010
Organization:
Africa Rice Center (formerly West Africa Rice Development Association)
African Insect Science for Food and Health
All-India Co-ordinated Pearl Millet Improvement Project
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
CABI Africa Regional Centre
Centro Internacional de la Papa (International Potato Center)
Food and Environment Research Agency, UK
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda
International Rice Research Institute
John Innes Centre
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Laurentian University
Makerere University
National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda)
Natural Resources Institute
NIAB (formerly National Institute of Agricultural Botany)
Oil Palm Research Institute, Ghana
Rothamsted Research
Sokoine University of Agriculture
University of Aberdeen
University of Calcutta
University of Cambridge
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
University of Lancaster
University of Leeds
University of Nairobi
University of Nottingham
University of Sheffield
University of the Free State
University of Warwick
- Agricultural Production
- agriculture
- armyworms
- arsenic
- bananas
- biological control
- biological control organisms
- biopesticides
- Biotechnology
- Brassica oleracea var. capitata
- Brassica oleracea var. viridis
- cabbages
- cereals
- coconuts
- cocos nucifera
- Crop production
- crop science
- crop varieties
- disease control
- disease resistance
- drought resistance
- Food Security
- foods
- fungi
- gene expression
- genes
- genetics
- groundwater pollution
- Ipomoea batatas
- kale
- Maize
- Musa
- nuclear polyhedrosis virus
- Oryza sativa
- parasitic plants
- pearl millet
- Pennisetum glaucum
- pest insects
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- plant nematodes
- plant pests
- plantains
- Poverty Reduction
- Resistance
- Rice
- rots
- soil pollution
- Sustainable Agriculture
- sweet potatoes
- Triticum
- Triticum aestivum
- weed control
- weeds
- Wheat
Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa (SCARDA)
Region:
Africa
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60644/Default.aspx Description:
Although the overall projec
Project Date:
Mon, 01/01/2007
Organization:
Association for Strengthening Agricultural
Research in Eastern and Central Africa
Conference des Responsables de Recherche Agronomique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et de Centre
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
- Agricultural Development
- agricultural information
- agricultural research
- agriculture
- Biotechnology
- Capacity Building
- capacity development
- gender
- information management
- institutional capacity
- institutional capacity building
- institutional development
- institutional issues
- institutions
- Research
- systematic review
- Training
Post-harvest assessment of root and tuber crop storage
Region:
Global
Country:
Bangladesh
Country:
Colombia
Country:
Ghana
Country:
Nepal
Country:
Nigeria
Country:
Peru
Country:
Uganda
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/694/Default.aspx Description:
Root and Tubercrops contribute
Project Date:
Fri, 01/04/1991
Organization:
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- Biotechnology
- cassava
- handling
- horticultural crops and tree crops
- markets
- postharvest
- postharvest technology
- root crops
- roots and tubers
- Storage
- sweet potatoes
- yams
Plant Sciences Research Programme (PSP)
Region:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/50025/Default.aspx Description:
The PSP broad spectrum of rese
Project Date:
Wed, 01/04/1995 - Tue, 01/03/2006
Organization:
CAZS Natural Resources, University of Wales, Bangor
- acid soils
- Adaptation
- Aegilops uniaristata
- Agricultural Development
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens
- aluminium
- bananas
- biodiversity
- Biotechnology
- black gram
- Case Studies
- cassava
- chickpeas
- Cicer arietinum
- cowpeas
- crop trials
- crop yield
- data analysis
- databases
- decentralization
- development agencies
- disease resistance
- dissemination of research
- drought resistance
- efficiency
- fallow
- farm income
- farmers
- farmers attitudes
- Fertilizers
- Food Security
- genes
- genetic diversity
- genetic engineering
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- genetic resources
- genetic transformation
- genetics
- genomes
- genotypes
- grasses
- groundnuts
- Hevea brasiliensis
- high yielding varieties
- hybrids
- immunological adjuvants
- innovation adoption
- intercropping
- introduced varieties
- introgression
- kidney beans
- legumes
- livelihoods
- Maize
- manioc
- marker-assisted selection
- Meloidogyne
- mildews
- millet
- molecular genetics
- mung beans
- nematodes
- NGOs (non-governmental organizations)
- nutrient uptake
- on-farm research
- oryza
- Oryza glaberrima
- Oryza minuta
- Oryza sativa
- participatory research
- pearl millet
- Pennisetum glaucum
- pest resistance
- phosphates
- phosphorus
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- plant establishment
- plant genetic resources
- Plant Genetics
- plant nematodes
- plant viruses
- Policy Reform
- polymerase chain reaction
- potatoes
- Pratylenchus zeae
- pregermination
- production costs
- quantitative trait loci
- questionnaires
- rainfed farming
- Regulations
- regulatory reform
- research institutes
- research uptake
- resource allocation
- resource utilization
- Rice
- rice yellow mottle sobemovirus
- rock phosphate
- roots
- rubber
- Rural development
- salt tolerance
- Sclerospora graminicola
- seed certification
- seed industry
- seed production
- seed quality
- seed testing
- Seeds
- selection criteria
- semiarid systems
- semiarid zones
- sequential cropping
- soil fertility
- soils
- Solanum tuberosum
- Sorghum
- stakeholders
- statistical analysis
- subsistence farming
- sustainability
- transgenic plants
- upland rice
- varieties
- variety trials
- Vigna mungo
- Wheat
- yield increase
- yields
- Zea mays
Harvest Plus Challenge Programme (HPCP)
Region:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60687/Default.aspx Description:
In late 2002, the CGIAR Micron
Project Date:
Fri, 01/04/2008
Organization:
Learning Innovations at WestEd
- Adaptation
- Aegilops
- agriculture
- amino acids
- analytical methods
- animal nutrition
- Arabidopsis thaliana
- arsenic
- ascorbic acid
- backcrossing
- bananas
- barley
- Beans
- bioavailability
- biofortification
- bioinformatics
- biosynthesis
- Biotechnology
- Brassica rapa
- breast feeding
- breeding methods
- cadmium
- calcium
- carbon dioxide
- carotenes
- carotenoids
- cassava
- cereals
- chemical analysis
- chemical composition
- child health
- child nutrition
- chronic illness
- communicable diseases
- composition
- consumers
- cooking
- copper
- cowpeas
- crop models
- Crop production
- crop varieties
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- cyanogens
- detoxification
- Developing Countries
- diet
- diet studies
- dietary surveys
- disease prevention
- disease resistance
- drought resistance
- drought stress
- drying
- enzymes
- fatty acids
- fermentation
- ferritin
- Fertilizers
- flours
- food composition
- Food Crops
- food preparation
- Food Prices
- food processing
- Food Products
- Food Quality
- food resources
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- food storage
- gene expression
- genes
- genetic diversity
- genetic engineering
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- genetic transformation
- genetic variation
- genotype-environment interaction
- germplasm resources
- Glycine max
- GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
- Grain
- grain crops
- health
- heritability
- heterosis
- Hordeum vulgare
- household surveys
- human diseases
- human nutrition
- hybrids
- infant mortality
- infant nutrition
- intercropping
- introduced varieties
- inulin
- Ipomoea batatas
- iron
- landraces
- Maize
- malaria
- malnutrition
- manganese
- Manihot esculenta
- Medicago truncatula
- micronutrients
- mineral content
- mineral deficiencies
- modelling
- molecular genetics
- Molecular markers
- Musa
- mutants
- nitrogen
- nitrogen fertilizers
- nutrient analysis
- nutrient intake
- nutrient uptake
- nutrients
- nutritive value
- Opuntia ficus-indica
- oryza
- Oryza sativa
- parboiling
- pearl millet
- Pennisetum glaucum
- Phaseolus
- Phaseolus coccineus
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- phosphorus
- phytic acid
- pigs
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- plant genetic resources
- Plant Genetics
- plant nutrition
- plantains
- postharvest decay
- postharvest losses
- postharvest physiology
- potatoes
- protein content
- proteins
- public health
- quantitative trait loci
- recurrent selection
- Rice
- root crops
- rural poor
- Sampling methods
- seed development
- seed production
- seed supply
- seed systems
- Seeds
- selenium
- Simulation Models
- Solanum phureja
- Solanum tuberosum
- solar drying
- Sorghum
- Soybeans
- spectrometers
- spectroscopy
- Storage
- storage losses
- sulfur
- sweet potatoes
- sweetcorn
- tannins
- temperature
- tomatoes
- toxicity
- trace elements
- transgenic plants
- translocation
- triticale
- Triticum
- Triticum aestivum
- Triticum durum
- tubers
- Vigna unguiculata
- vitamin A
- vitamin deficiencies
- vitamins
- Wheat
- wild relatives
- willingness to pay
- women
- Zea mays
- zinc
- zinc fertilizers
Harvest Plus Challenge Programme
Region:
Africa
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3754/Default.aspx Description:
The goal of the proposed progr
Project Date:
Thu, 01/01/2004
- abscisic acid
- Agricultural Policy
- agriculture
- agronomic characters
- anaemia
- analytical methods
- antinutritional factors
- Arabidopsis thaliana
- bananas
- barley
- Beans
- bioavailability
- biofortification
- biosynthesis
- Biotechnology
- bone formation
- breeding methods
- cadmium
- Cajanus cajan
- calcareous soils
- calcium
- carotenes
- carotenoids
- cassava
- cereals
- chemical analysis
- chemical composition
- child nutrition
- children
- consumer behaviour
- consumers
- cooking
- copper
- cost benefit analysis
- cost effectiveness
- cost effectiveness analysis
- cowpeas
- Crop Management
- crop quality
- crop varieties
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- crude protein
- cyanobacteria
- Cyrtosperma merkusii
- Developing Countries
- diet
- diet studies
- dietary supplements
- disease resistance
- dissemination of research
- economically disadvantaged
- enzymes
- feed intake
- feed supplements
- ferritin
- Fertilizers
- fisheries
- flours
- food composition
- Food Crops
- food intake
- Food Policy
- food preparation
- food processing
- Food Products
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- fructans
- fruit
- Fusarium
- gene expression
- genes
- genetic diversity
- genetic engineering
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- genetic transformation
- genetic variation
- genomes
- genomics
- genotype-environment interaction
- germplasm resources
- Grain
- grain legumes
- haemoglobin
- health
- health policy
- heritability
- human health
- human nutrition
- Hydrology
- in vitro
- indigenous crops
- integrated water resources management
- inulin
- iodine
- Ipomoea batatas
- iron
- irrigation
- isotope dilution
- land varieties
- landraces
- legumes
- lentils
- lipid peroxidation
- magnesium
- Maize
- malnutrition
- manganese
- Manihot esculenta
- marker-assisted selection
- Medicago truncatula
- metabolism
- micronutrients
- milling
- mineral content
- mineral deficiencies
- minerals
- Molecular markers
- molybdenum
- Musa
- mutants
- mutation
- nutrient availability
- nutrient intake
- nutrient transport
- nutrient uptake
- nutritional disorders
- nutritional requirements
- nutritional status
- nutritive value
- Oryza sativa
- oxygenases
- pearl millet
- peas
- Pennisetum glaucum
- peptides
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- phosphorus
- phytic acid
- phytotoxicity
- pigeon peas
- pigs
- pisum sativum
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- plant genetic resources
- Plant Genetics
- plant growth regulators
- plant nutrition
- plantains
- plants
- plasma
- postharvest technology
- potatoes
- Poverty
- protein content
- proteins
- public health
- quantitative trait loci
- recurrent selection
- Rice
- Risk Assessment
- root crops
- roots
- rural areas
- rye
- sampling
- Sampling methods
- seed development
- seed dormancy
- seed germination
- Seeds
- selenium
- selenium fertilizers
- senescence
- soil fertility
- Solanum tuberosum
- solar drying
- Sorghum
- starch
- starch crops
- starch industry
- Storage
- sweet potatoes
- taro
- techniques
- temperature
- Teramnus labialis
- tocopherols
- toxicity
- trace elements
- transgenic plants
- translocation
- triticale
- Triticum
- Triticum aestivum
- Triticum durum
- tubers
- varieties
- variety trials
- vitamin A
- vitamin deficiencies
- vitamins
- Water
- water management
- water resources
- Wheat
- wild relatives
- willingness to pay
- women
- yams
- Zea mays
- zinc
- zinc fertilizers
Generation Challenge Programme (GCP)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60678/Default.aspx Description:
Created by the CGIAR in 2003 a
Project Date:
Fri, 01/04/2008
Organization:
Generation Challenge Programme
- abscisic acid
- Agricultural Development
- agricultural research
- agriculture
- aluminium
- amphiploids
- Arachis
- Arachis hypogaea
- Ascochyta
- Ascochyta rabiei
- backcrossing
- bananas
- barley
- bioavailability
- biodiversity
- biofortification
- bioinformatics
- Biotechnology
- blights
- Cajanus cajan
- Capacity Building
- carbohydrate metabolism
- cassava
- Cercospora
- cereals
- chemical composition
- chickpeas
- chromosome maps
- Cicer arietinum
- Cochliobolus heterostrophus
- computer software
- cooking
- cost benefit analysis
- cowpeas
- crop models
- Crop production
- crop varieties
- crop yield
- crops
- cytogenetics
- databases
- Developing Countries
- disease resistance
- Drought
- drought resistance
- drought stress
- evolution
- Farming systems
- Food Crops
- Food Security
- fragrance
- Frankliniella
- Fusarium
- gene expression
- gene transfer
- genes
- genetic analysis
- genetic diversity
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- genetic polymorphism
- genetic transformation
- genetic variation
- genetics
- genomes
- genomics
- genotype-environment interaction
- Germplasm
- germplasm resources
- GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
- grain legumes
- groundnuts
- growth
- growth models
- growth rate
- heritability
- high yielding varieties
- Hordeum
- Hordeum vulgare
- human nutrition
- Hunger
- hybridization
- ICTs (information and communication technologies)
- information storage
- Information systems
- introgression
- landraces
- legumes
- lettuces
- Lotus japonicus
- Magnaporthe
- Maize
- marker-assisted selection
- Medicago truncatula
- meetings
- Meloidogyne
- micronutrients
- microsatellites
- millet
- mineral content
- mineral deficiencies
- molecular genetics
- Molecular markers
- Musa
- musa acuminata
- mutants
- nematode infections
- nematodes
- nodulation
- nucleotide sequences
- nutrient uptake
- nutritive value
- oryza
- Oryza sativa
- pest resistance
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- phosphorus
- photosynthesis
- pigeon peas
- Plant Breeding
- plant breeding methods
- plant diseases
- plant genetic resources
- Plant Genetics
- plant morphology
- plant nematodes
- plant nutrition
- plant pests
- plant water relations
- polyploidy
- population genetics
- postharvest decay
- postharvest losses
- potatoes
- Poverty
- protein content
- proteomes
- proteomics
- Pyricularia oryzae
- quantitative trait loci
- recurrent selection
- rhizosphere
- Rice
- root systems
- roots
- salinity
- salt tolerance
- scientific information
- screening
- seed dormancy
- seed germination
- seed production
- selection
- Simulation Models
- small farmers
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- smoke
- soil deficiencies
- soil water potential
- Solanum tuberosum
- Sorghum
- statistical analysis
- stress
- Sugarcane
- temperature
- thrips
- trace elements
- transgenic plants
- transpiration
- Triticum
- Triticum aestivum
- Triticum durum
- upland rice
- Vigna unguiculata
- water stress
- water uptake
- water use efficiency
- Wheat
- wild relatives
- Xanthomonas
- Zea mays
Generation Challenge Programme ( Formerly Challenge Programme On Unlocking Genetic Diversity In Crops For The Research Poor)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/50128/Default.aspx Project Date:
Wed, 01/07/2004
Organization:
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
- abscisic acid
- access to information
- access to technology
- Adaptation
- Aegilops
- agriculture
- aluminium
- amplified fragment length polymorphism
- Arabidopsis thaliana
- Arachis
- Arachis hypogaea
- backcrossing
- bananas
- barley
- biodiversity
- bioinformatics
- biosynthesis
- biosystematics
- Biotechnology
- Bipolaris oryzae
- Brazil
- Cajanus cajan
- Capacity Building
- cassava
- cassava mosaic disease
- cassava mosaic virus
- cell division
- Cercosporidium
- cereals
- chickpeas
- chlorophyll
- chromosome maps
- Cicer arietinum
- Climate
- Cochliobolus heterostrophus
- Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
- computer software
- cowpeas
- crop domestication
- crop models
- Crop production
- crop quality
- crop varieties
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- cross breeding
- data analysis
- Data collection
- data exchange
- data management
- data processing
- data provision
- databases
- deletions
- diffusion of information
- disease resistance
- DNA fingerprinting
- Drought
- drought resistance
- drought stress
- Eleusine coracana
- environmental factors
- enzymes
- Farming systems
- finger millet
- flowering
- Food Crops
- fructans
- geminiviruses
- gene banks
- gene expression
- gene mapping
- gene transfer
- genes
- genetic analysis
- genetic diversity
- genetic engineering
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- genetic polymorphism
- genetic resources
- genetic variation
- genetics
- genomes
- genomics
- genotype-environment interaction
- Germplasm
- germplasm conservation
- germplasm resources
- grain legumes
- groundnuts
- growth
- growth models
- growth rate
- growth simulation
- Harvesting
- heritability
- heterosis
- hybridization
- hybrids
- information
- information centres
- information flow
- information management
- information science
- information services
- information storage
- Information systems
- intellectual property
- intellectual property rights
- introgression
- landraces
- leaf area
- leaves
- legumes
- lettuces
- Magnaporthe grisea
- Maize
- Manihot
- Manihot esculenta
- marker-assisted selection
- Meloidogyne
- microsatellites
- millet
- models
- molecular biology
- molecular genetics
- Molecular markers
- Mononychellus tanajoa
- Musa
- mutants
- mutation
- nitrogen fixation
- nodulation
- organic acids
- oryza
- Oryza sativa
- parasitic plants
- Pennisetum glaucum
- pest insects
- pest resistance
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Phenacoccus manihoti
- phenology
- phosphorus
- photoperiodicity
- photosynthesis
- phytotoxicity
- pigeon peas
- plant biotechnology
- Plant Breeding
- plant cells
- plant collections
- plant development
- plant diseases
- plant genetic resources
- Plant Genetics
- plant growth regulators
- plant height
- plant morphology
- plant nematodes
- plant nutrition
- plant pathogenic bacteria
- plant pathogenic fungi
- plant pests
- plant viruses
- plantains
- pollen
- pollination
- polymorphism
- population genetics
- potatoes
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- quantitative trait loci
- recurrent selection
- RFLP
- Rice
- root systems
- roots
- salinity
- salt tolerance
- sampling
- scientific information
- screening
- seed industry
- selection
- selection criteria
- semiarid zones
- senescence
- Setaria italica
- Setosphaeria turcica
- Simulation Models
- solanum
- Solanum tuberosum
- Sorghum
- spores
- statistical analysis
- stress
- Striga
- taxonomy
- techniques
- temperature
- transcription
- transgenic plants
- translocation
- transpiration
- Triticum
- Triticum aestivum
- Triticum durum
- tropics
- Uromyces
- Uromyces appendiculatus
- variety trials
- Vigna unguiculata
- water stress
- water use efficiency
- websites
- Wheat
- wild relatives
- Xanthomonas oryzae
- Zea mays
Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) Phase 2
Region:
Africa
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60706/Default.aspx Description:
Future Agricultures Consort
Organization:
Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Overseas Development Institute
- access to education
- access to health care
- Agricultural Development
- agricultural economics
- agricultural inputs
- agricultural land
- Agricultural Marketing
- Agricultural Policy
- Agricultural Production
- agricultural research
- agriculture
- analysis
- analytical methods
- Biotechnology
- Capacity Building
- Case Studies
- cash crops
- cassava
- cereals
- chronic poverty
- Climate
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- commercialization
- companies
- consumers
- Cotton
- Crop production
- crop varieties
- crops
- dairy farming
- decentralization
- Developing Countries
- development policy
- donors
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth
- economic reform
- estimation
- exports
- Extension
- extension activities
- extension services
- famine
- farmers
- farmers associations
- farmers attitudes
- Farmers Organizations
- farming
- farmland
- Fertilizers
- fisheries
- food
- Food Aid
- Food Crops
- Food Prices
- food production
- Food Security
- foods
- foreign aid
- gender
- gender issues
- GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
- governance
- government
- greenhouse gases
- growth
- household surveys
- Hunger
- improved livelihoods
- innovation
- innovation adoption
- investments
- irrigated cropping
- irrigation
- labour productivity
- land
- land management
- land reform
- land resources
- literature reviews
- livelihood security
- Livelihood strategies
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock farmers
- living standards
- Maize
- markets
- millet
- models
- natural resources
- new technologies
- NGOs (non-governmental organizations)
- onions
- pastoral areas
- Pastoralism
- pastoralists
- performance
- plant biotechnology
- Plant Breeding
- plant breeding methods
- Policy
- policy development
- policy formulation
- politics
- Poverty
- Poverty Reduction
- prices
- Private Sector
- pro-poor policy
- productivity
- projects
- public sector
- reform
- Research
- rural areas
- rural communities
- Rural development
- rural economy
- rural livelihoods
- rural poor
- rural poverty
- school feeding
- schools
- seasonal variation
- seasonality
- seed industry
- seed production
- seed supply
- seed systems
- Seeds
- service delivery
- small farmers
- small farms
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- social equity
- social protection
- Sorghum
- Subsidies
- surveys
- sustainable livelihoods
- tea
- Technology
- tomatoes
- urban poor
- welfare
- yams
- youth
