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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


The Good Seed Initiative - sharing the learning from CPP programmes into pro-poor seed systems in East Africa

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Kenya
Country: 
Uganda
Country: 
Tanzania
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3969/Default.aspx
Description: 

In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), s

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/03/2005
Organization: 
CABI Bioscience
Kenya Plant Health Inspection Service
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Sokoine University of Agriculture
  • crop varieties
  • dissemination of research
  • farmers
  • information dissemination
  • kale
  • research projects
  • research uptake
  • seed production
  • seed quality
  • Seeds
  • small farms


Selection criteria and co-management guidelines for harvest reserves in tropical river fisheries

Region: 
East Asia and Pacific
Country: 
Bangladesh
Country: 
Indonesia
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1888/Default.aspx
Description: 

Harvest reserves are used in m

Organization: 
Central Research Institute for Fisheries, Indonesia
Dinas Perikanan
Marine Resources Assessment Group Limited
  • areas
  • artisanal fisheries
  • Buffer Stocks
  • Case Studies
  • catch composition
  • catch effort
  • classification
  • Data collection
  • economic impact
  • fish stocks
  • fisheries
  • fishery management
  • fishery policy
  • fishery production
  • fishery resources
  • fishing communities
  • floodplains
  • guidelines
  • information dissemination
  • institutions
  • Learning
  • length
  • marine areas
  • Methodology
  • Monitoring
  • protected areas
  • Regulations
  • rivers
  • socioeconomics
  • stock assessment
  • stock enhancement
  • surveys
  • Training
  • trends
  • tropical fish


Reaping the Benefits: Assessing the impact and facilitating the uptake of resource-conserving technologies in the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plain

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Bangladesh
Country: 
India
Country: 
Nepal
Country: 
Pakistan
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3706/Default.aspx
Description: 

According to the Rice-Wheat

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/10/2002
Organization: 
Banaras Hindu University
CAB International
CABI Bioscience Pakistan Centre
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo, Nepal
Crop Disease Research Institute, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology
National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan
Nepal Agricultural Research Council
Rice Wheat Consortium for the Indo Gangetic Plains
Wheat Research Centre, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
  • access to information
  • agriculture
  • Capacity Building
  • cash crops
  • caste
  • Constraints
  • Crop production
  • crop varieties
  • crop yield
  • crops
  • Crops CS
  • disease surveys
  • Farmer Field Schools
  • farmers
  • farmers income
  • floodplains
  • gender
  • impact assessment
  • income generation
  • information dissemination
  • innovation adoption
  • knowledge management
  • knowledge sharing
  • landless poor
  • marginal farms
  • Microfinance
  • NR Management CS
  • Oryza sativa
  • pathogens
  • pest surveys
  • plant diseases
  • plant pests
  • pro-poor interventions
  • radio
  • Rice
  • rural livelihoods
  • seed production
  • Seeds
  • socioeconomics
  • subsistence farming
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Sustainable Management
  • technological changes
  • technological innovations
  • Technology adoption
  • Technology transfer
  • technology uptake
  • threshers
  • tillage equipment
  • Training
  • Triticum
  • Triticum aestivum
  • Vegetables
  • villages
  • Wheat
  • women
  • workshops
  • zero tillage


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


Promoting adoption of integrated pest management in vegetable production

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Kenya
Country: 
Uganda
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3702/Default.aspx
Description: 

Vegetable production constitut

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/09/2003
Organization: 
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Real IPM Company
  • communications media
  • farmer-to-farmer training
  • information dissemination
  • IPM (integrated pest management)
  • knowledge sharing
  • Pests
  • promotion
  • Training
  • training courses
  • vegetable growing
  • Vegetables


Promoting adoption of integrated pest management in vegetable production through improved resources for Farmer Trainers

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Kenya
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3990/Default.aspx
Description: 

Vegetable production constitut

Project Date: 
Tue, 01/04/2005
Organization: 
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Real IPM Company
  • Crop production
  • Extension
  • information dissemination
  • IPM (integrated pest management)
  • livelihoods
  • peri-urban areas
  • pest control
  • Pest Management
  • Poverty Reduction
  • training packs
  • training programmes
  • vegetable growing
  • Vegetables


Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance (PETRRA)

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Bangladesh
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60906/Default.aspx
Description: 

The PETRRA Project is one of 8

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/04/1999
Organization: 
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
International Rice Research Institute
  • access to information
  • agricultural research
  • agriculture
  • Case Studies
  • communication policy
  • communication process
  • communications media
  • communications strategy
  • Crop production
  • dissemination of research
  • ducks
  • Extension
  • extension activities
  • Farmer Field Schools
  • farmer participatory research
  • farmers
  • Farming systems
  • gender
  • gender equality
  • genetic improvement
  • grants
  • guidelines
  • information dissemination
  • Learning
  • lessons learned
  • liberalization
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • newsletters
  • non-farm rural sector
  • Oryza sativa
  • participatory learning
  • participatory research
  • plant biotechnology
  • poverty alleviation
  • poverty mapping
  • pro-poor interventions
  • pumps
  • research programmes
  • research projects
  • research strategy
  • research uptake
  • Rice
  • rural communities
  • rural economy
  • rural income
  • rural livelihoods
  • seed production
  • Seeds
  • skills training
  • soil fertility
  • strategies
  • strategy papers
  • Technology adoption
  • technology development
  • technology uptake
  • television
  • Training
  • uptake promotion
  • Website
  • women


Policy Innovation Systems for Clean Energy Security (PISCES)

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Sri Lanka
Country: 
India
Country: 
Kenya
Country: 
Tanzania
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60510/Default.aspx
Description: 

The idea behind PISCES is t

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/09/2006
Organization: 
African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS-Nairobi)
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group), Kenya
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group), Sri Lanka
University of Dar es Salaam
University of Edinburgh
  • access to energy
  • access to energy services
  • agriculture
  • Asia
  • biodiesel
  • bioenergy
  • biofuels
  • biogas
  • biomass
  • Capacity Building
  • Case Studies
  • charcoal
  • charcoal burning
  • Climate
  • commercialization
  • communication
  • communications
  • communications strategy
  • Crop production
  • Developing Countries
  • energy
  • energy markets
  • energy policy
  • energy resources
  • energy sources
  • Environment
  • environmental impact
  • feasibility studies
  • Food Security
  • fuelwood
  • gender equity
  • gender issues
  • Groundwater
  • information dissemination
  • Jatropha
  • knowledge sharing
  • markets
  • Policy
  • policy development
  • Poverty
  • poverty alleviation
  • Private Sector
  • renewable energy
  • research programmes
  • research uptake
  • rural livelihoods
  • social equity
  • socioeconomics
  • stakeholders
  • stoves
  • Technology
  • Value Chain
  • water resources
  • water security


Laos: Addressing technical, social and economic constraints to rice fish culture in Laos, emphasising women's involvement.

Region: 
East Asia and Pacific
Country: 
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1217/Default.aspx
Description: 

With a percapita annual income

Project Date: 
Tue, 01/10/1995
Organization: 
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department, University of Reading
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
Livestock and Veterinary Section, Agriculture and Forestry Division, Lao
Womens Union, Lao
  • agricultural enterprises
  • agricultural land
  • agricultural research
  • agropisciculture
  • Aquaculture
  • carp
  • Constraints
  • cultural development
  • decentralization
  • Developing Countries
  • dissemination of research
  • economic and social development
  • education and training
  • empowerment
  • environmental factors
  • extension activities
  • extension services
  • farmers
  • Farming systems
  • fish culture
  • fish farming
  • fisheries management
  • fishery management
  • fishery production
  • fishery resources
  • flooded rice
  • forest management
  • forest resources
  • freshwater fishes
  • gender issues
  • human nutrition
  • income generation
  • information dissemination
  • information management
  • lagoon fisheries
  • natural resources
  • participatory development
  • participatory research
  • partnerships
  • poverty reduction strategies
  • pro-poor policy
  • Research
  • research methods
  • research support
  • resource management
  • rice field aquaculture
  • rural communication
  • small scale enterprises
  • socioeconomic factors
  • sustainable livelihoods
  • technical change
  • Technology
  • Technology transfer
  • tilapia
  • water resources
  • wealth creation
  • women
  • workshops


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