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Printer-friendly versionWhat are the projected impacts of climate change on food crop productivity in Africa and South Asia?
Region:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60788/Default.aspx Description:
Food security is one of thi
Organization:
Cranfield University
- agriculture
- agroclimatic zones
- cassava
- Climate
- Crop production
- crop yield
- crops
- Environment
- Food Crops
- Food Security
- impact assessment
- Maize
- millet
- plantains
- Rice
- Sorghum
- Sugarcane
- Sustainable Agriculture
- systematic review
- Wheat
- yams
- yields
Tropical Whitefly IPM Project Phase III
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/50087/Default.aspx Project Date:
Tue, 01/04/2005
Organization:
AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center
CAB International
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia
Centro Internacional de la Papa (International Potato Center)
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
- agriculture
- Aleyrodidae
- cassava
- crop losses
- crops
- disease control
- disease transmission
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- Manihot esculenta
- mixed cropping
- pest control
- pest insects
- plant diseases
- plant pests
- plant viruses
- rural communities
- socioeconomic development
- socioeconomics
- Sustainable Agriculture
- whiteflies
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 Integrated Management of Whiteflies as Pests and Vectors of Plant Viruses in the Tropics: Phase 2 - Network Strengthening, Pest and Disease Dynamics and IPM Component Research
Region:
Africa
Country:
Colombia
Country:
Ecuador
Country:
El Salvador
Country:
Guatemala
Country:
Uganda
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3029/Default.aspx Description:
This proposal seeks funds from
Project Date:
Thu, 01/04/2001
Organization:
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia
Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Agricola, El Salvador
Danforth Center
Ford Foundation
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
Makerere University
Manecur
National Root Crops Co-ordinator, Sugarcane Research Institute, Tanzania
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
PROFRIJOL, Guatemala
Tel Aviv University
University of Arizona
- agriculture
- Beans
- Bemisia tabaci
- biotypes
- cash crops
- cassava
- Climate
- crop losses
- crop protection
- disease resistance
- disease vectors
- environmental effects
- Food Security
- geminiviruses
- health hazards
- insect pests
- insect vectors
- insecticides
- introduced varieties
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- Ipomoea batatas
- livelihoods
- Lycopersicon esculentum
- Manihot esculenta
- natural enemies
- pest control
- pesticide resistance
- Pesticides
- Phaseolus
- plant diseases
- plant viruses
- poor farmers
- small farmers
- subsistence farming
- Sustainable Agriculture
- sweet potatoes
- tomatoes
- Trialeurodes vaporariorum
- whiteflies
Sustainable uptake of cassava as an industrial commodity
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3638/Default.aspx Description:
The major livelihood problems
Project Date:
Wed, 01/01/2003
Organization:
Amasa Agro-Processing Company Limited
Association of Productive Entrepreneurs in Development
Bakers Associations in Atebubu District
Cassava Farmers in Atebubu District
Cassava Processing Groups in Atebubu District
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana
Feed and Flour Ghana Limited
Food Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Sunyani, Ghana
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, National Board for Small Scale Industries (Ghana)
ROSEAFRIK Limited
Strategies for the sustainable deployment of cassava mosaic disease resistant cassava in Eastern Africa
Region:
Africa
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Uganda
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2796/Default.aspx Description:
Cassava has been recognised as
Project Date:
Mon, 01/11/1999
Organization:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda
National Cassava Programme, Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Research Institute (Uganda)
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
- agriculture
- Bemisia tabaci
- cassava
- cassava mosaic disease
- cassava mosaic virus
- disease transmission
- disease vectors
- insect vectors
- Maize
- plant diseases
- plant viruses
Risk warning to farmers of Larger Grain Borer infestation and reduced pesticide treatment in maize stores
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1373/Default.aspx Description:
Farmers in Ghana may store mai
Project Date:
Thu, 01/04/1996
Organization:
Crop Research Institute, Ghana
Food Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
- biological control
- cassava
- chemical control
- Developing Countries
- grain crops
- grain storage
- Insects Pests Stored Grain
- Maize
- pest control
- pest insects
- Pesticides
- Pests
- pheromones
- Prostephanus truncatus
- stored products
- stored products pests
Repackaging proven RNRRS technologies for dissemination via TECA
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/50137/Default.aspx Description:
To "add value" to DFID's RNRRS
Organization:
FAO Research and Technology Development Service
Natural Resources International Limited
- access to information
- access to technology
- aflatoxins
- agricultural engineering
- agricultural inputs
- agriculture
- Agroforestry
- algae culture
- animal diseases
- animal feeding
- animal health
- animal husbandry
- animal nutrition
- animal power
- animal production
- animal viruses
- Aquaculture
- aquaculture development
- armyworms
- artisanal fisheries
- baling
- bananas
- Bemisia tabaci
- biological control
- biological control agents
- biopesticides
- bird control
- birds
- black gram
- blowfly
- botanical pesticides
- botrytis
- Botrytis cinerea
- bush fallowing
- Calliandra calothyrsus
- Callosobruchus maculatus
- capripoxvirus
- carrying capacity
- cassava
- cassava brown streak disease
- Cassava brown streak virus
- cassava mosaic disease
- cassava mosaic virus
- cattle
- cereals
- chickpeas
- co-management
- coastal communities
- coastal fisheries
- Cocoa
- coconut lethal yellowing
- coconut oil
- coconut products
- coconuts
- Coffee
- computer software
- conservation tillage
- construction materials
- copra
- Cotton
- cover crops
- cowdria ruminantium
- cowpeas
- crop establishment
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- crop protection
- crop varieties
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- crotalaria
- dairy cattle
- dairy farming
- data management
- databases
- decision support tools
- detection
- diagnosis
- diagnostic techniques
- diatomaceous earth
- dioscorea
- direct sowing
- disease control
- disease resistance
- disease transmission
- Draught Animal Power
- draught animals
- Draught cattle
- drought resistance
- drug resistance
- dry farming
- Drylands
- electronic media
- Eleusine coracana
- ELISA
- erosion control
- Extension
- extension activities
- extraction
- fallow
- farmer participatory research
- Farming systems
- feed legumes
- Fertilizers
- finger millet
- fish
- fish culture
- fish farming
- fish hatcheries
- fish management
- fish processing
- fish products
- fish resources
- fish stocks
- fisheries
- fisheries management
- fishery data
- fishery development
- fishery management
- fishery production
- fishery products
- fishery resources
- fishing
- fishing grounds
- fishing rights
- floodplains
- flours
- fodder
- fodder crops
- fodder production
- fodder quality
- food
- Food Aid
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- forage
- Forecasting
- forest margins
- fruit
- fruit crops
- fruit flies
- fungal diseases
- Fusarium
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- glucose
- goats
- gossypium
- grain protectants
- grain storage
- grain stores
- grains
- green manures
- groundnut rosette disease
- groundnuts
- Haemonchus contortus
- harnesses
- heat recovery
- Helicoverpa armigera
- herbicides
- hillside systems
- hillsides
- horticultural crops
- human nutrition
- implements
- improved fallow
- information management
- information storage
- inland fisheries
- insect pests
- insecticides
- integrated control
- integrated crop management
- intercropping
- internet
- introduced varieties
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- irrigation
- kale
- knowledge management
- knowledge sharing
- lake fisheries
- land use
- landraces
- Learning
- legumes
- lessons learned
- Livelihood Diversification
- Livelihood strategies
- Livestock
- livestock farmers
- livestock farming systems
- livestock feed
- livestock health and diseases
- livestock numbers
- livestock production
- livestock protection
- livestock trypanosomiasis
- Lumpy skin disease virus
- Magnaporthe grisea
- Maize
- maize streak virus
- manual weed control
- manures
- marker-assisted selection
- Maruca vitrata
- meat animals
- meat production
- Meloidogyne
- Methodology
- milk production
- models
- molasses
- molecular genetics
- Molecular markers
- mung beans
- natural drying
- nematode control
- nematode infections
- nematodes
- nutritive value
- oryza
- Oryza sativa
- overfishing
- parasites
- parasitic plants
- participatory research
- Pastoralism
- pastoralists
- pearl millet
- Pennisetum glaucum
- peri-urban agriculture
- pest control
- Pesticides
- Pests
- Phaseolus
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Pheromone traps
- phytoplasma
- pigeon peas
- Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus
- Plant Breeding
- plant breeding methods
- plant diseases
- plant nematodes
- plant oils
- plant pathogenic fungi
- plant pests
- plant protection
- plant viruses
- plantations
- planting stock
- polymerase chain reaction
- ponds
- postharvest fisheries
- postharvest losses
- postharvest technology
- potatoes
- poverty alleviation
- presses
- processed plant products
- processing
- Profitability
- public private partnerships
- quantitative trait loci
- Quelea
- rabbits
- renewable natural resources
- research programmes
- research projects
- Rhizoctonia oryzae-sativae
- rhizoctonia solani
- Rice
- rice field aquaculture
- rinderpest
- rivers
- rodent control
- rodenticides
- rodents
- root crop processing
- root crops
- root rots
- rotational cropping
- rubber
- ruminants
- rural livelihoods
- scaling-up
- scientific information
- Sclerospora graminicola
- sea urchins
- seed germination
- seed priming
- seed production
- seed storage
- semiarid zones
- shea butter
- sheep
- silage
- silage making
- Simulation Models
- sluice gates
- small animal rearing
- small businesses
- small farmers
- small farms
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- smallstock
- social capital
- soil conservation
- soil erosion
- soil fauna
- soil fertility
- soil management
- Solanum tuberosum
- solar drying
- solarization
- solid wastes
- Sorghum
- Spodoptera
- Spodoptera exempta
- stacks
- starch
- starch crops
- starch industry
- Storage
- storage losses
- stored products pests
- Striga
- Striga asiatica
- sugar syrup
- Sustainable Agriculture
- sweet potatoes
- tannins
- Technology transfer
- tillage
- tillage equipment
- tomato leaf curl virus
- tomatoes
- transplanting
- trapping
- traps
- tree fodders
- tropical fruits
- Trypanosoma vivax
- trypanosomosis
- tsetse fly
- tubers
- upland rice
- upscaling
- urban wastes
- vaccination
- vaccines
- variety trials
- vegetable crops
- vegetable growing
- Vegetables
- Vigna mungo
- waste heat
- waste management
- waste utilization
- water conservation
- water management
- weed control
- weed management
- weeds
- Wheat
- women
- working animals
- Xanthomonas campestris
- yams
- Zea mays
Promotion of control measures for cassava brown streak disease
Region:
Africa
Country:
Mozambique
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3619/Default.aspx Description:
Cassava in the coastal distric
Project Date:
Wed, 01/01/2003
Organization:
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (Mozambique)
Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute
National Root Crops Co-ordinator, Sugarcane Research Institute, Tanzania
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Southern Africa Root Crop Research Network
- agriculture
- cassava
- cassava brown streak disease
- Cassava brown streak virus
- cassava mosaic virus
- crop protection
- Development
- disease control
- disease distribution
- disease resistance
- Food Crops
- livelihoods
- Manihot esculenta
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- Research
- research projects
- Trade
- varieties
Promotion of control measures for cassava brown streak disease
Region:
Africa
Country:
Malawi
Country:
Mozambique
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3977/Default.aspx Description:
Cassava plays a vital role in
Project Date:
Tue, 01/04/2005
Organization:
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (Mozambique)
National Root Crops Co-ordinator, Sugarcane Research Institute, Tanzania
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Root Crops Section, Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute
Southern Africa Root Crop Research Network