human nutrition
Printer-friendly versionWhat Development Interventions Work? The long-term impact and cost-effectiveness of anti-poverty interventions in Bangladesh.
Region:
South Asia
Country:
Bangladesh
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60629/Default.aspx Description:
Bangladesh has experienced imp
Project Date:
Thu, 01/03/2008
Organization:
Economics and Social Research Council
International Food Policy Research Institute
- agriculture
- assets
- boys
- cash transfers
- chronic poverty
- cost effectiveness
- Crop production
- crop varieties
- Economic Growth
- Education
- empowerment
- Evaluation
- finance
- fish
- fish farming
- fisheries
- girls
- haemoglobin
- household consumption
- household surveys
- human nutrition
- Hunger
- impact assessment
- intervention
- iron
- malnutrition
- men
- Microfinance
- nutrient intake
- nutritional status
- polyculture
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- primary education
- pro-poor interventions
- research projects
- rural areas
- social protection
- Sustainable Agriculture
- technological changes
- Technology
- Technology adoption
- Vegetables
- vitamin A
- wellbeing
- women
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 interaction between nutrition and genetic resistance to trypanosomosis in trypano-tolerant livestock
Region:
Africa
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/727/Default.aspx Description:
The severity of trypanosome in
Project Date:
Fri, 01/01/1993
Organization:
Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Development
Centre de Recherches sur les Trypanosomoses Animals
Glasgow University Veterinary School, University of Glasgow
International Trypanotolerance Centre
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
- disease resistance
- human nutrition
- Livestock
- livestock production
- Livestock Production and Nutrition
- livestock production systems
Tethering of small ruminants in Tanzania
Region:
Africa
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/330/Default.aspx Description:
Tethering is a form of control
Project Date:
Thu, 01/10/1991
Organization:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
Department of Animal Science and Production, Sokoine University of Agriculture
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
- animal feeding
- animal health
- animal production
- Farming systems
- food intake
- goats
- helminthology
- helminths
- human nutrition
- lactation
- Livestock
- livestock production
- Livestock Production and Nutrition
- livestock production systems
- ruminants
- small farms
- tethered grazing
The availability and potential uses of crop residues and by-products in Africa
Region:
Africa
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Malawi
Country:
Swaziland
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/234/Default.aspx Project Date:
Thu, 01/04/1990
Organization:
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- animal production
- byproducts
- crop residues
- documentation
- feed availability
- human nutrition
- information flow
- Livestock
- livestock production
- Livestock Production and Nutrition
- Research
- ruminants
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
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
Nutritive value of Sesbania rostrata as a forage legume for goats in Bangladesh
Region:
South Asia
Country:
Bangladesh
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/349/Default.aspx Description:
Within many developing countri
Project Date:
Sat, 01/04/1992
Organization:
Department of Animal Nutrition, Bangladesh Agricultural University
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
University of Aberdeen
- analysis
- Evaluation
- feed availability
- feed crops
- feeding systems
- goats
- human nutrition
- legumes
- Livestock
- livestock production
- Livestock Production and Nutrition
- methods
- nutritive value
- ruminants
- Sesbania
Meat and milk production from the Indigenous Malawi Goat
Region:
Africa
Country:
Malawi
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/27/Default.aspx Description:
The project was originally ent
Project Date:
Fri, 01/06/1989
Organization:
Bunda College of Agriculture
Natural Resources International Limited
University of Plymouth
- animal husbandry methods
- Breeding
- breeding aims
- breeding stock
- carcasses
- cross breeding
- goats
- human nutrition
- insemination
- livestock production
- Livestock Production and Nutrition
- livestock production systems
- slaughter weight