

Food Quality
Sweet potato cultivars with improved keeping qualities for East Africa
Region:
Africa
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2390/Default.aspx Description:
The major needs addressed by t
Project Date:
Mon, 01/11/1999
Organization:
Centro Internacional de la Papa, Kenya
Crops Research, Ukiriguru Agricultural and Training Research Institute
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Silsoe College, Cranfield University
- biochemistry
- carbohydrate metabolism
- Constraints
- consumer behaviour
- consumer surveys
- crop varieties
- drought stress
- enzymes
- farmers
- food processing
- Food Quality
- Food Security
- handling
- histology
- income generation
- Ipomoea batatas
- keeping quality
- lignification
- literature reviews
- mannitol
- Marketing
- markets
- on-farm research
- organoleptic properties
- osmotic pressure
- pest insects
- pest resistance
- Plant Breeding
- postharvest
- postharvest decay
- postharvest losses
- postharvest physiology
- relative humidity
- roots
- rots
- selection
- Storage
- storage losses
- storage physiology
- storage structures
- stored products pests
- stores
- surveys
- sweet potatoes
- transport
- tropics
- urban areas
- varieties
- variety trials
- ventilation
- wounds and injuries
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
Promotion of Mungbean Research Outputs for Farmer Adoption in South Asia
Region:
South Asia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1661/Default.aspx Description:
Mungbean is widely grown in So
Project Date:
Sat, 01/04/1997
Organization:
Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University
AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
Directorate of Pulses, India
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Institute for Post Graduate Studies in Agriculture, Bangladesh
Mennonite Central Committee
National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan
Nepal Agricultural Research Council
Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Pakistan
Punjab Rao Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya
Rajendra Agricultural University
Regional Agricultural Research Station, Sri Lanka
Renewable Natural Resources Research Centre (Bhutan)
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
- agriculture
- Breeding
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- crop varieties
- cropping systems
- disease resistance
- farm surveys
- Food Quality
- human nutrition
- iron
- mung beans
- Plant Breeding
- Training
- Vegetables
- Vigna radiata
- yield factors
Pollution and health problems in horticultural production in Harare: The need for improved quality assurance systems
Region:
Africa
Country:
Zimbabwe
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2321/Default.aspx Description:
Heavy metal contaminated sewag
Project Date:
Sat, 01/01/2000
Organization:
AGRITEX, Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Water
Natural Resources International Limited
TH Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Zimbabwe
Wye College, University of London
- biological contamination
- consumer behaviour
- consumer surveys
- Crop production
- Fertilizers
- food contamination
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- health
- heavy metals
- horticultural crops
- household surveys
- markets
- peri-urban agriculture
- pesticide residues
- Pesticides
- pollution
- small scale farmers
- Vegetables
Improving the livelihoods of small-scale sweet potato farmers in Central Uganda through a crop post harvest-based innovation system
Region:
Africa
Country:
Uganda
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3634/Default.aspx Description:
The proposed project is in lin
Project Date:
Sat, 08/02/2003
Organization:
Buganda Cultural and Development Foundation
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Makerere
Food Science and Technology Research Institute, Uganda
Foodnet Africa
Horticultural Exporters Association of Uganda
Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, Uganda
Maganjo Millers
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Regional Network for Improvement of Potato and Sweet Potato in East and Central Africa
Royal Institute of Business and Technology
Tonet Enterprises
- farmers
- Food Policy
- food processing
- food production
- Food Products
- Food Quality
- human nutrition
- improved livelihoods
- Ipomoea batatas
- livelihoods
- Market Access
- markets
- postharvest
- postharvest technology
- quality tests
- Seeds
- small scale farmers
- Storage
- sweet potatoes
- technological innovations
- Training
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
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
Enhancing food chain integrity: quality assurance mechanisms for air pollution impacts on fruit and vegetable systems
Region:
South Asia
Country:
India
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2362/Default.aspx Description:
The livelihoods of inhabitants
Project Date:
Sun, 01/02/2000
Organization:
Agricultural Economics Research Centre, Delhi School of Economics
Centre for Science and the Environment
Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University
Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Development Tracks
Imperial College at Silwood Park
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Natural Resources International Limited
Srishti
Toxics Link, New Delhi
Wye College, University of London
- Abelmoschus esculentus
- air pollution
- Beta vulgaris
- Brassica oleracea var. botrytis
- Case Studies
- cauliflowers
- cereals
- consumer behaviour
- Crop production
- cropping systems
- crops
- dairy industry
- economic impact
- food contamination
- Food Policy
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- grain crops
- groundwater pollution
- handling
- health hazards
- heavy metals
- information
- land use
- livelihoods
- markets
- okras
- peri-urban agriculture
- pesticide residues
- pollution
- private sector participation
- quality assurance
- social impact
- socioeconomics
- spinach beet
- urban agriculture
- urban areas
- Vegetables
- washing
Enhancing rural livelihoods through a new coalition arrangement for the dissemination of improved rice post-production and marketing technologies in Northern Ghana
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3609/Default.aspx Description:
Rice consumption in Ghana incr
Organization:
Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ghana
Food Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Bolgatanga Ghana
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Technoserve
- farmers
- food markets
- food processing
- Food Quality
- good practice
- human nutrition
- livelihoods
- Marketing
- marketing channels
- postharvest
- postharvest equipment
- postharvest technology
- poverty areas
- Rice
- rural livelihoods
- Technology transfer
- Training
