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Workshop on 'concentration in the downstream agrifood system and its effects on the rural poor'

Region: 
Latin America and Caribbean
Country: 
Argentina
Country: 
Brazil
Country: 
Chile
Country: 
Colombia
Country: 
Costa Rica
Country: 
Mexico
Country: 
Peru
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3560/Default.aspx
Description: 

All over the LAC, there is a s

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/10/2000
Organization: 
Michigan State University, USA
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
ONG RIMISP, Chile
  • Development
  • food markets
  • markets
  • Policy
  • Poverty
  • retail sector
  • small farms
  • workshops


To investigate the opportunities and constraints faced by resource-poor farmers in the humid lowlands of West Africa (HULWA) in investing in the planting and improvement of indigenous trees for income generation.

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Cameroon
Country: 
Ghana
Country: 
Nigeria
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2088/Default.aspx
Description: 

Povery of the rural resource-p

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/12/1998
Organization: 
Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association
Center for International Forestry Research, Cameroon
Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Developpment de Cameroun
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, Cameroon
Natural Resources International Limited
Overseas Development Institute
  • agriculture
  • Agroforestry
  • biodiversity
  • commercialization
  • crop domestication
  • Crop Management
  • Crop production
  • crop varieties
  • cultivation
  • Dacryodes edulis
  • development research
  • economically disadvantaged
  • exports
  • Extension
  • farmers
  • farming
  • Farming systems
  • food production
  • Food Products
  • forest biodiversity
  • forest products
  • forestry
  • fruit trees
  • genetic variation
  • improved livelihoods
  • income generation
  • indigenous crops
  • indigenous fruits
  • international trade
  • Irvingia gabonensis
  • land use
  • livelihood security
  • livelihoods
  • lowland areas
  • Marketing
  • markets
  • non-wood forest products
  • organoleptic properties
  • participatory management
  • participatory research
  • Plant Breeding
  • plant genetic resources
  • poor farmers
  • poverty alleviation
  • processing
  • propagation
  • rural livelihoods
  • selection
  • socioeconomics
  • Trade
  • Training
  • tree crops
  • tree fruits
  • trees
  • tropical fruits
  • tropical trees
  • vegetative propagation


The 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 structure and performance of the seed sector in Eastern and Southern Africa (Phases I, II and III)

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Malawi
Country: 
Zimbabwe
Country: 
Tanzania
Country: 
Zambia
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/155/Default.aspx
Description: 

Over the last thirty years, or

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/04/1990
Organization: 
Edinburgh School of Agriculture
Overseas Development Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies
  • agronomy
  • Agronomy and Cropping Systems
  • Crop Management
  • cropping systems
  • Farming systems
  • grain crops
  • markets
  • Rice
  • seed industry
  • seed production
  • Seeds
  • small farms
  • socioeconomic organization
  • Sorghum


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


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


Sustainable NGO/CBO agricultural marketing initiatives

Region: 
Global
Country: 
India
Country: 
Uganda
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2856/Default.aspx
Description: 

When extension agents, researc

Organization: 
Agriculture Man and Ecology (AME Foundation)
Catalyst Management Services Pvt Ltd
National Agricultural Advisory Development Service (Uganda)
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
  • agriculture
  • Commodities
  • Developing Countries
  • literature reviews
  • Marketing
  • markets
  • Poverty
  • roots
  • Vegetables


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


Support to small-scale grain handling and storage in Southern Africa

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Botswana
Country: 
Malawi
Country: 
Namibia
Country: 
Zimbabwe
Country: 
Swaziland
Country: 
Zambia
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/709/Default.aspx
Description: 

Grain market liberalisation in

Project Date: 
Sat, 01/04/1992
Organization: 
Natural Resources Institute
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
  • Cereals and Pulses Food Security
  • Grain
  • grain distribution
  • Maize
  • markets
  • postharvest
  • postharvest technology
  • Storage


Small-scale farmer-managed aquaculture in engineered water systems: critical design and management approaches.

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Sri Lanka
Country: 
India
Country: 
Pakistan
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1971/Default.aspx
Description: 

The project aims to address th

Project Date: 
Sat, 01/03/1998
Organization: 
Agribusiness Centre, University of Peradeniya
CARE International Sri Lanka
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
Samuha
  • alkalinity
  • aluminium
  • analytical methods
  • animal nutrition
  • Aquaculture
  • aquaculture development
  • aquatic weeds
  • arid zones
  • chemical analysis
  • Clarias gariepinus
  • Climate
  • co-operatives
  • coastal areas
  • coastal lagoons
  • conflict
  • conflict resolution
  • Constraints
  • consumer behaviour
  • cost benefit analysis
  • costs
  • Credit
  • crop residues
  • cropping systems
  • crops
  • data analysis
  • Data collection
  • demand
  • Developing Countries
  • development agencies
  • development assistance
  • diet studies
  • dried fish
  • Drought
  • economically disadvantaged
  • endosulfan
  • environmental effects
  • farmers
  • Farming systems
  • Fertilizers
  • fish
  • fish consumption
  • fish culture
  • fish farming
  • fish hatcheries
  • fish resources
  • fisheries
  • fishermen
  • fishery production
  • floods
  • focus groups
  • Food Supply
  • freshwater fishes
  • gender issues
  • geographical distribution
  • government organizations
  • health hazards
  • household surveys
  • Hydrology
  • impact
  • impact assessment
  • indigenous organisms
  • inland fisheries
  • insecticides
  • integrated water resources management
  • interventions
  • interviews
  • irrigation
  • irrigation systems
  • irrigation water
  • labour
  • labour allocation
  • lessons learned
  • literature reviews
  • Livestock
  • lowland areas
  • Marketing
  • marketing channels
  • marketing margins
  • markets
  • meat products
  • men
  • Methodology
  • Microcredit
  • microirrigation
  • natural resources
  • NGOs (non-governmental organizations)
  • nutrient availability
  • nutrient cycling
  • nutrients
  • ornamental fish
  • participation
  • participatory research
  • participatory rural appraisal
  • partnerships
  • pesticide residues
  • Pesticides
  • pH
  • phosphates
  • ponds
  • Poverty
  • prices
  • production potential
  • project framework
  • questionnaires
  • rainfed farming
  • rapid rural appraisal
  • research projects
  • reservoirs
  • resource surveys
  • resource utilization
  • resources
  • rice field aquaculture
  • rural communities
  • Rural development
  • rural livelihoods
  • rural settlements
  • salinity
  • salinization
  • seasonal variation
  • seasonality
  • sediment
  • semiarid climate
  • semiarid zones
  • small farms
  • small scale
  • small scale enterprises
  • small scale farmers
  • social class
  • socioeconomics
  • soil conservation
  • species
  • stakeholders
  • statistical analysis
  • Sustainable Development
  • sustainable livelihoods
  • tanks
  • temperature
  • tilapia
  • transport
  • tropics
  • turbidity
  • wastewater
  • Water
  • water allocation
  • water analysis
  • water availability
  • Water harvesting
  • water management
  • water pollution
  • water quality
  • water reservoirs
  • water resources
  • water storage
  • water systems
  • Water use
  • watershed management
  • watersheds
  • women
  • workshops


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