Development
Printer-friendly versionWorkshop on 'concentration in the downstream agrifood system and its effects on the rural poor'
Region:
Latin America and Caribbean
Country:
Argentina
Country:
Brazil
Country:
Chile
Country:
Colombia
Country:
Costa Rica
Country:
Mexico
Country:
Peru
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3560/Default.aspx Description:
All over the LAC, there is a s
Project Date:
Mon, 01/10/2000
Organization:
Michigan State University, USA
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
ONG RIMISP, Chile
Working with farmers to control sweet potato virus disease in East Africa
Region:
Africa
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Uganda
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3640/Default.aspx Description:
In Africa, sweet potato is gro
Project Date:
Fri, 01/11/2002
Organization:
Buganda Cultural and Development Foundation
FAO Global IPM Facility Tanzania
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda
Maruku Agricultural Research Institute
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
PRAPACE
Sweetpotato Regional Breeder for SSA region
- crop varieties
- Development
- disease control
- disease resistance
- disease surveys
- Germplasm
- Ipomoea batatas
- livelihoods
- pest control
- Pest Management
- Plant Breeding
- plant viruses
- Research
- research projects
- sweet potatoes
- Trade
- viruses
Water 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
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
Technical support for SME supplying pheromone-based pest control technologies in South Asia
Region:
South Asia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3691/Default.aspx Description:
The agricultural sector in Sou
Project Date:
Thu, 01/09/2003
Organization:
Bio-Control Research Laboratories Pest Control (India) Pvt Limited
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
SPIC Science Foundation
- aubergines
- Development
- insecticides
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- leucinodes orbonalis
- livelihoods
- pest control
- Pheromone traps
- pheromones
- Research
- research projects
- Trade
Sustainable control of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, in small-scale cotton production systems
Region:
East Asia and Pacific
Country:
China
Country:
India
Country:
Pakistan
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2775/Default.aspx Description:
Strongly based agricultural ec
Project Date:
Tue, 01/04/2000
Organization:
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Rothamsted Research
- Cotton
- crop protection
- Development
- gossypium
- Helicoverpa armigera
- insecticides
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- livelihoods
- pest control
- pesticide resistance
- Research
- research projects
- small scale enterprises
- Trade
Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme (SSA CP)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60686/Default.aspx Description:
A study of Africa's ARD ini
Project Date:
Fri, 01/04/2008
Organization:
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
- agricultural research
- agriculture
- agronomy
- baseline surveys
- budgets
- Capacity Building
- cereals
- communities
- Coordination
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- crop yield
- Data collection
- data management
- Development
- documentation
- Evaluation
- experimental design
- farmer participatory research
- farmers
- Food Security
- grain legumes
- horticulture
- households
- impact assessment
- innovation
- integrated crop management
- irrigated farming
- Learning
- legumes
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- Maize
- Market Access
- Methodology
- Monitoring
- natural resources
- nutrients
- plant nutrition
- project management
- rainfed farming
- recruitment
- Research
- research programmes
- research uptake
- Rice
- rural livelihoods
- seed production
- skills
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- social networks
- soil fertility
- soil management
- soils
- Sorghum
- surveys
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Technology transfer
- Training
- Value Chain
- Vegetables
- villages
- Water
- workshops
Promotion of improved IPM practices for banana diseases and pests in Uganda
Region:
Africa
Country:
Uganda
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3707/Default.aspx Description:
Banana diseases and pests are
Project Date:
Tue, 01/07/2003
Organization:
CABI Bioscience
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
National Banana Research Programme, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
- banana bacterial wilt
- bananas
- Crop Management
- crop varieties
- Development
- disease resistance
- diseases
- fungal diseases
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- livelihoods
- mulches
- Musa
- nematodes
- Pest Management
- pest resistance
- Pests
- Research
- research projects
- resource management
- tissue culture
- Trade
Promotion and impact assessment of tomato leaf curl virus disease resistant tomatoes: phase III of sustainable management and molecular characterisation of Bemisia tabaci and tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) on tomato in India
Region:
South Asia
Country:
India
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3626/Default.aspx Description:
After China, India is the seco
Project Date:
Wed, 01/01/2003
Organization:
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agricultural Sciences (Bangalore)
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
- Bemisia tabaci
- crop varieties
- Development
- disease control
- disease resistance
- hybrids
- insect vectors
- introduced varieties
- livelihoods
- Lycopersicon esculentum
- plant viruses
- Research
- research projects
- seed industry
- tomato leaf curl virus
- tomato yellow leaf curl geminivirus
- tomatoes
- Trade
- uptake promotion
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