decision support tools
Printer-friendly versionWater and Food Challenge Programme
Region:
Global
Country:
Brazil
Country:
Japan
Country:
Philippines
Country:
Sweden
Country:
Uganda
Country:
United States of America
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60685/Default.aspx Description:
In developing countries, wa
Project Date:
Tue, 04/01/2008
Organization:
Challenge Program on Water and Food Secretariat
- agricultural land
- agricultural research
- agriculture
- Agroforestry
- Aquaculture
- aquifers
- biodiversity
- Capacity Building
- catchment hydrology
- civil society
- Climate
- climate models
- communicable diseases
- communication policy
- communication process
- communications strategy
- community participation
- community-based management
- conflict management
- conflict resolution
- Constraints
- cost benefit analysis
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- cropping systems
- crops
- customary law
- dams
- decision making
- decision support
- decision support systems
- decision support tools
- Development
- disease transmission
- disease vectors
- Drought
- ecosystem services
- ecosystems
- electricity
- electricity generation
- energy
- environmental management
- Environmental services
- Evaluation
- farmer participatory research
- Farming systems
- Financing
- fish culture
- fish management
- fisheries
- fisheries management
- fishery development
- fishery management
- fishery resources
- fishing communities
- flood plains
- floodplain management
- floodplains
- Food Crops
- food production
- Food Security
- gender equity
- geological surveys
- geology
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- Globalization
- governance
- grazing lands
- Groundwater
- groundwater abstraction
- health
- human nutrition
- hydroelectric schemes
- hydrological models
- Hydrology
- impact
- impact assessment
- implementation
- inland fisheries
- innovation adoption
- institutional change
- institutional issues
- institutional management
- institutions
- integrated management
- integrated water resources management
- Investment
- investments
- irrigated farming
- irrigation
- irrigation schemes
- knowledge
- lakes
- land management
- land use
- livelihood impact
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock farming systems
- livestock production
- malaria
- modelling
- models
- Monitoring and evaluation
- mosquito-borne diseases
- mosquitoes
- natural resources
- natural resources management
- Oryza sativa
- outcome assessment
- parasitic diseases
- Pastoralism
- pastoralists
- Payment for environmental services
- Plant Breeding
- ponds
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- precipitation
- project evaluation
- public health
- public investment
- rain
- rainfed farming
- rainwater
- research programmes
- research projects
- research results
- research uptake
- Rice
- rice field aquaculture
- river basins
- rivers
- rural livelihoods
- saline soils
- salinity
- shrimp culture
- Simulation Models
- small farmers
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- soil
- soil analysis
- soil classification
- soil conservation
- soil fertility
- soil surveys
- sustainability
- Sustainable Agriculture
- sustainable livelihoods
- Trade
- upland rice
- upper catchments
- urban agriculture
- wastewater
- wastewater irrigation
- Water
- water access
- water allocation
- water availability
- water conflict
- water conservation
- water demand
- water development
- Water harvesting
- water law
- water management
- water policy
- water productivity
- water quality
- water reservoirs
- water resources
- water scarcity
- water security
- water storage
- water supply
- water systems
- Water use
- watershed management
- watersheds
- wetlands
- Wheat
- whole catchment management
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
Pro-Poor Policy Options to Control Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Africa and South East Asia
Region:
Global
Country:
Cambodia
Country:
Ethiopia
Country:
Ghana
Country:
Indonesia
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Nigeria
Country:
Vietnam
Country:
Thailand
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60508/Default.aspx Description:
Since its emergence, H5N1 HPAI
Project Date:
Mon, 01/01/2007
Organization:
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
International Development Research Centre
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
Royal Veterinary College
Rural Development Research Consortium
- agriculture
- animal diseases
- animal health
- avian influenza
- avian influenza virus
- birds
- Capacity Building
- Certification
- chickens
- child health
- child nutrition
- chronic poverty
- communicable diseases
- communication
- communication policy
- communication process
- compensation
- consumer behaviour
- consumers
- cost benefit analysis
- costs
- data provision
- databases
- decision making
- decision support
- decision support tools
- Disasters
- disease control
- disease surveillance
- disease transmission
- disease vectors
- ducks
- econometric models
- economic analysis
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth
- economic impact
- economics
- epidemics
- epidemiology
- Epidemiology and Modelling
- farm income
- farmers
- farmers income
- Farming systems
- field experimentation
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- health
- health policy
- households
- human health
- human nutrition
- infant nutrition
- information dissemination
- information flow
- institutional issues
- livelihood impact
- livelihood security
- Livelihood strategies
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock production
- losses
- mapping
- Market Access
- Marketing
- meat products
- micronutrients
- models
- policy issues
- poultry
- poultry farming
- Poverty
- Poverty Reduction
- project evaluation
- project management
- project monitoring
- project planning
- public health
- quality assurance
- research methods
- research projects
- Rice
- Risk
- Risk analysis
- Risk Assessment
- Risk factors
- Risk Management
- risk reduction
- rural income
- rural livelihoods
- rural poor
- small farmers
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- socioeconomic impact
- stakeholders
- Supply Chain
- surveys
- sustainable livelihoods
- urban areas
- vaccination
- Value Chain
- Vulnerability
- willingness to pay
FAO Pro-poor Livestock Policy Facility (PPLPF): Fostering the Policy Dialogue in Support of Equitable Safe and Clean Livestock Farming
Region:
Africa
Country:
India
Country:
Peru
Country:
Senegal
Country:
Burkina Faso
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2355/Default.aspx Description:
Livestock contribute to the li
Project Date:
Tue, 01/12/1999 - Wed, 01/10/2007
Organization:
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- accessibility
- aerial spraying
- agricultural economics
- agricultural labour markets
- agricultural markets
- Agricultural Policy
- Agricultural Production
- agricultural reform
- agricultural sector
- agricultural trade
- agricultural workers
- agriculture
- agropastoral systems
- alpacas
- Andhra Pradesh
- animal diseases
- animal health
- animal husbandry
- animal production
- animal products
- animal protein
- animal welfare
- avian influenza
- bait techniques
- beef
- biosafety
- Camelidae
- capacity development
- Case Studies
- cattle
- censuses
- Certification
- civil society
- Collaborative relationships
- common agricultural policy (EC)
- communicable diseases
- community initiatives
- community-based workers
- competition
- computer software
- consultation
- consultative visits
- Contracts
- cooperation
- cooperative farming
- corruption
- costs
- dairy cows
- dairy industry
- data analysis
- Data collection
- data exchange
- data provision
- decentralization
- decision support tools
- demand
- demand side management
- demand side mangement
- demography
- Developing Countries
- Development
- disaster preparedness
- disease control
- disease distribution
- disease prevention
- disease surveys
- disease transmission
- Diversification
- domestic consumption
- Economic Development
- economic policy
- economic reform
- economics
- efficiency
- eggs
- empowerment
- environmental assessment
- epidemiology
- expenditure
- exports
- Extension
- farmers
- financial resources
- fish
- fish consumption
- food consumption
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- food standards
- foot and mouth disease
- Forecasting
- forest policy
- funding
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- Globalization
- governance
- government
- Government Policy
- health
- health hazards
- health security
- highlands
- household consumption
- household surveys
- households
- human diseases
- human resources
- impact assessment
- incomes
- indebtedness
- indicators
- industrialization
- informal economy
- innovation
- insect control
- insecticides
- institutional change
- institutions
- Insurance
- intensification
- international agreements
- International Standards
- international trade
- intersectoral cooperation
- interventions
- Investment
- labour supply
- land tenure
- land use
- large scale farming
- law
- liberalism
- liberalization
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock development
- livestock farmers
- livestock farming systems
- livestock keepers
- livestock management
- livestock production
- livestock products
- livestock sector
- mapping
- maps
- Market Access
- market competition
- market traders
- markets
- meat
- meetings
- milk
- milk production
- Millennium Development Goals
- mixed farming
- modelling
- models
- Monitoring
- monitoring disease control
- new crops
- new products
- participation
- partnerships
- pastoral areas
- pastoralists
- peri-urban areas
- peri-urban communities
- phytosanitary measures
- pigs
- Policy
- policy development
- policy formulation
- policy issues
- Policy Reform
- political change
- political power
- political systems
- politics
- politics and government
- poor farmers
- poultry
- poultry farming
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- poverty reduction policy
- poverty reduction strategies
- private investment
- privatization
- pro-poor policy
- production
- production costs
- productivity
- public finance
- public health
- public private partnerships
- public service provision
- public services
- quality assurance
- quality control
- reform
- regulation
- Remote Sensing
- reports
- Risk
- Risk Assessment
- rural areas
- rural change
- Rural development
- rural farmers
- rural income
- rural livelihoods
- rural poor
- satellite surveys
- sector reform
- security
- services
- skills
- small farms
- small scale farmers
- small scale farms
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- social equity
- spatial variation
- stakeholders
- standards
- Statistics
- Strategy
- Subsidies
- Supply Chain
- supply networks
- surveys
- swine
- tariffs
- tax reform
- taxation
- taxonomy
- techniques
- Trade
- trade barriers
- Training
- tsetse fly
- urban areas
- urban poor
- vaccination
- vector control
- veterinary science
- veterinary services
- Vulnerability
- vulnerable groups
- welfare
- world markets
- zoonoses
Rainfall modelling can predict future yields. Validated RNRRS Output.
This is one of 280 summaries describing key outputs from the projects run by DFID's 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.
Publication Date:
2007
Region:
South Asia
Country:
India, Pakistan Publications Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Output/176261/Default.aspx
http://www.researchintouse.com/nrk/RIUinfo/PF/NRSP13.htm
- cereals
- Crop production
- decision support
- decision support tools
- models
- rain
- rainfed farming
- semiarid zones
Inception Workshop on Pro-Poor HPAI Risk Reduction Project in Africa and Southeast Asia. Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 12-13, 2007. Session II: Communication (Decision Support ToolsandCapacity Building) - Towards a Strategy for Pro-poor Policy Influence.
Three presentations were made in Session II of the projects Inception Workshop. These are:-
Overview presentation - Communication, decision support
and capacity building cluster. A. McLeod.
Risk communication and decision support. K. von Grebmer.
Pro-poor policy processes - Experiences of the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative. By J. Otte
Publication Date:
2007
Region:
East Asia and Pacific
Region:
Middle East and North Africa
Region:
Africa
Country:
Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam Publications Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Output/178640/Default.aspx
- agriculture
- animal diseases
- avian influenza
- Capacity Building
- communication
- decision making
- decision support
- decision support tools
- poultry
- poultry farming
- Risk Management
Credit and know-how boost farm incomes. Validated RNRRS Output.
This is one of 280 summaries describing key outputs from the projects run by DFID's 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.
Publication Date:
2007
Region:
Middle East and North Africa
Country:
Kenya, Uganda Publications Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Output/176379/Default.aspx
http://www.researchintouse.com/nrk/RIUinfo/PF/NRSP16.htm
- Credit
- Crop production
- decision support tools
- Diversification
- farmers
- households
- improved livelihoods
- land management
- Maize