grains
Printer-friendly versionThe Spatial Integration and Pricing Efficiency of the Private Sector GrainTrade in Bangladesh.
Region:
South Asia
Country:
Bangladesh
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1497/Default.aspx Description:
Grain markets have evolved rap
Project Date:
Thu, 01/11/1996
Organization:
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Natural Resources International Limited
- cereals
- efficiency
- grain distribution
- grains
- marketing margins
- markets
- Policy
- prices
- Private Sector
- Rice
- Trade liberalization
- Wheat
The role of warehousing in improving performance of agricultural markets, Phase II.
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Country:
Mozambique
Country:
South Africa
Country:
Uganda
Country:
Tanzania
Country:
Zambia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1917/Default.aspx Description:
Notwithstanding the positive a
Project Date:
Wed, 01/08/1997
Organization:
B&P Group
Food Reserve Agency, Zambia
Ghana Food Distribution Corporation
Ghana Institute for Management and Public Administration
Grain Marketing Association of Ghana
Joseph Foresight Limited, Ghana
Mbaraki Port Warehouses (K) Ltd
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Zambia
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Mozambique
National Director of Internal Commerce, Ministry of Industry Commerce and Tourism, Mozambique
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Netherlands Delegation, Mozambique
Social Sciences Department, Natural Resources Institute
V&M Import & Export Agents (Pty) Limited
Zambia National Farmers' Union
- agriculture
- commodity marketing
- commodity markets
- grain storage
- grains
- Maize
- marketing channels
- markets
- storehouses
- warehouses
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
Improving smallholder access to maize marketing opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1984/Default.aspx Description:
The liberalisation of maize ma
Project Date:
Mon, 01/05/1998
Organization:
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
Natural Resources International Limited
Sokoine University of Agriculture
University of Ghana
Wye College, University of London
- food markets
- Food Products
- grains
- Maize
- market competition
- Marketing
- Poverty
- rural population
- small farms
- smallholders
- sustainability
- Trade liberalization
Implementation of cereals market liberalisation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Country:
Zambia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/527/Default.aspx Description:
African countries undergoing m
Project Date:
Sat, 01/04/1992
Organization:
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
Wye College, University of London
- cereals
- Cereals and Pulses Food Security
- grain distribution
- grains
- Marketing
- postharvest
- postharvest technology
- Storage
BIOTROP Training Course on Pest Management of Stored Grains and Pulses, Bogor, Indonesia, March 2001
Region:
South Asia
Country:
Indonesia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3522/Default.aspx Description:
SEAMEO BIOTROP, the South-East
Project Date:
Thu, 05/03/2001 - Mon, 06/04/2001
Organization:
BIOTROP
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
South-East Asian Regional Centre for Tropical Biology
Access to market opportunities in Ghana's off-road communities: Phase I
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1983/Default.aspx Description:
The project focusses on the pr
Project Date:
Sun, 01/04/1998
Organization:
CAZS Natural Resources, University of Wales, Bangor
Department of Geography, University of Ghana
Natural Resources International Limited
University of Dundee
University of Durham
- cassava
- Constraints
- Crop production
- crops
- economics
- food markets
- gender issues
- grains
- literature reviews
- Maize
- Manihot esculenta
- Marketing
- markets
- Oryza sativa
- postharvest
- processing
- Rice
- rural population
- small farms
- Storage
- transport
- villages
- Western Africa
- women
- Zea mays
Speculation in food commodity markets
Type of Risk:
All
Type of Risk management option:
All
Organization:
World Development Movement
Publication Date:
2010
Number of Pages:
20
Language:
English
Region:
Global 
- agriculture
- All
- Commodities
- demand
- Food Prices
- grains
- markets
- Research Document
- Speculation
- speculative activity
- supply
- volatility