

information flow
The scope for inter-institutional linkages in local seed supply
Region:
Africa
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/922/Default.aspx Project Date:
Wed, 01/09/1991
Organization:
Overseas Development Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
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 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
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
International review of bacterial wilt caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum
Region:
Global
Country:
Ethiopia
Country:
Grenada
Country:
India
Country:
Indonesia
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Malaysia
Country:
Mexico
Country:
Peru
Country:
Philippines
Country:
Rwanda
Country:
Sudan
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/122/Default.aspx Project Date:
Thu, 01/05/1989
Organization:
Centro Internacional de la Papa (International Potato Center)
Natural Resources Institute
Rothamsted Research
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- bacteria
- bacteriophages
- biological identification
- biological variability
- databases
- information flow
- information needs
- plant diseases
- plant pathology
- pseudomonas
- surveys
Generation Challenge Programme ( Formerly Challenge Programme On Unlocking Genetic Diversity In Crops For The Research Poor)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/50128/Default.aspx Project Date:
Wed, 01/07/2004
Organization:
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
- abscisic acid
- access to information
- access to technology
- Adaptation
- Aegilops
- agriculture
- aluminium
- amplified fragment length polymorphism
- Arabidopsis thaliana
- Arachis
- Arachis hypogaea
- backcrossing
- bananas
- barley
- biodiversity
- bioinformatics
- biosynthesis
- biosystematics
- Biotechnology
- Bipolaris oryzae
- Brazil
- Cajanus cajan
- Capacity Building
- cassava
- cassava mosaic disease
- cassava mosaic virus
- cell division
- Cercosporidium
- cereals
- chickpeas
- chlorophyll
- chromosome maps
- Cicer arietinum
- Climate
- Cochliobolus heterostrophus
- Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
- computer software
- cowpeas
- crop domestication
- crop models
- Crop production
- crop quality
- crop varieties
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- cross breeding
- data analysis
- Data collection
- data exchange
- data management
- data processing
- data provision
- databases
- deletions
- diffusion of information
- disease resistance
- DNA fingerprinting
- Drought
- drought resistance
- drought stress
- Eleusine coracana
- environmental factors
- enzymes
- Farming systems
- finger millet
- flowering
- Food Crops
- fructans
- geminiviruses
- gene banks
- gene expression
- gene mapping
- gene transfer
- genes
- genetic analysis
- genetic diversity
- genetic engineering
- genetic improvement
- genetic mapping
- genetic markers
- genetic polymorphism
- genetic resources
- genetic variation
- genetics
- genomes
- genomics
- genotype-environment interaction
- Germplasm
- germplasm conservation
- germplasm resources
- grain legumes
- groundnuts
- growth
- growth models
- growth rate
- growth simulation
- Harvesting
- heritability
- heterosis
- hybridization
- hybrids
- information
- information centres
- information flow
- information management
- information science
- information services
- information storage
- Information systems
- intellectual property
- intellectual property rights
- introgression
- landraces
- leaf area
- leaves
- legumes
- lettuces
- Magnaporthe grisea
- Maize
- Manihot
- Manihot esculenta
- marker-assisted selection
- Meloidogyne
- microsatellites
- millet
- models
- molecular biology
- molecular genetics
- Molecular markers
- Mononychellus tanajoa
- Musa
- mutants
- mutation
- nitrogen fixation
- nodulation
- organic acids
- oryza
- Oryza sativa
- parasitic plants
- Pennisetum glaucum
- pest insects
- pest resistance
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Phenacoccus manihoti
- phenology
- phosphorus
- photoperiodicity
- photosynthesis
- phytotoxicity
- pigeon peas
- plant biotechnology
- Plant Breeding
- plant cells
- plant collections
- plant development
- plant diseases
- plant genetic resources
- Plant Genetics
- plant growth regulators
- plant height
- plant morphology
- plant nematodes
- plant nutrition
- plant pathogenic bacteria
- plant pathogenic fungi
- plant pests
- plant viruses
- plantains
- pollen
- pollination
- polymorphism
- population genetics
- potatoes
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- quantitative trait loci
- recurrent selection
- RFLP
- Rice
- root systems
- roots
- salinity
- salt tolerance
- sampling
- scientific information
- screening
- seed industry
- selection
- selection criteria
- semiarid zones
- senescence
- Setaria italica
- Setosphaeria turcica
- Simulation Models
- solanum
- Solanum tuberosum
- Sorghum
- spores
- statistical analysis
- stress
- Striga
- taxonomy
- techniques
- temperature
- transcription
- transgenic plants
- translocation
- transpiration
- Triticum
- Triticum aestivum
- Triticum durum
- tropics
- Uromyces
- Uromyces appendiculatus
- variety trials
- Vigna unguiculata
- water stress
- water use efficiency
- websites
- Wheat
- wild relatives
- Xanthomonas oryzae
- Zea mays
Factors affecting production in Trypano-tolerant cattle
Region:
Africa
Country:
Gambia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/235/Default.aspx Project Date:
Sun, 01/08/1989
Organization:
International Trypanotolerance Centre
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- animal feeding
- animal husbandry
- animal production
- breeds
- cattle
- documentation
- human nutrition
- information flow
- Livestock
- livestock production
- Livestock Production and Nutrition
- livestock production systems
- methods
- protozoal infections
- ruminants
- Trypanosoma
- trypanosomiasis
Development of maize seed health testing procedures for facilitating distribution of improved maize germplasm
Region:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/138/Default.aspx Description:
Seedborne pathogens of maize a
Project Date:
Tue, 01/01/1991
Organization:
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
Natural Resources Institute
NIAB (formerly National Institute of Agricultural Botany)
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- biological identification
- biological variability
- Biotechnology
- Fusarium
- Germplasm
- information flow
- Maize
- methods
- pathogens
- plant pathology
- pseudomonas
- seed testing
- seedborne organisms
- Seeds
- Zea mays
Development of a GIS to investigate the role of environmental factors in tropical crop disease and vector epidemiology
Region:
Africa
Country:
Uganda
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/555/Default.aspx Description:
African Cassava Mosaic Virus (
Project Date:
Wed, 01/08/1992
Organization:
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
Anthracnose of mango and other tropical fruits
Region:
Europe and Central Asia
Country:
Israel
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/539/Default.aspx Project Date:
Sat, 01/10/1987
Organization:
Agricultural Research Organisation, Volcani Centre
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- anthracnoses
- antifungal properties
- avocados
- biological identification
- biological variability
- Colletotrichum
- Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
- crop resistance mechanisms
- fruit
- fungal diseases
- information flow
- mangoes
- plant diseases
- plant pathology
- tropical fruits
- Vegetables
