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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


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 use of sluice gates for stock enhancement and diversification of livelihoods

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Bangladesh
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3084/Default.aspx
Description: 

Previously, the DFID Flood Con

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/10/2002
Organization: 
Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
International Institute for Environment and Development
Marine Resources Assessment Group Limited
  • community involvement
  • conflict management
  • Data collection
  • economics
  • environmental degradation
  • Farming systems
  • fish stocks
  • fisheries
  • fishery development
  • fishery management
  • fishery resources
  • fishing communities
  • flood plains
  • floodplain management
  • floodplains
  • institutions
  • irrigation
  • livelihoods
  • migration
  • optimization
  • participatory research
  • poverty alleviation
  • Poverty Reduction
  • poverty reduction strategies
  • reviews
  • Rice
  • rice field aquaculture
  • rural communities
  • rural livelihoods
  • sluice gates
  • small scale fishing
  • social structure
  • socioeconomics
  • sociology
  • stock enhancement
  • sustainable livelihoods
  • water management
  • water resources


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 impact of aquatic animal health strategies on the livelihoods of poor people in Asia

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
India
Country: 
Vietnam
Country: 
Thailand
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3099/Default.aspx
Description: 

Previous research projects hav

Project Date: 
Tue, 01/01/2002
Organization: 
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
  • animal health
  • Aquaculture
  • economically disadvantaged
  • epidemiology
  • fisheries
  • fishery management
  • knowledge
  • literature reviews
  • livelihoods
  • Penaeus monodon
  • rural livelihoods
  • shrimp culture
  • shrimp diseases
  • shrimps
  • sustainable livelihoods
  • white spot disease


The effectiveness of micro-insurance in helping small-holders manage weather-related risks.

Region: 
Global
Country: 
Global
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60808/Default.aspx
Description: 

The risk of unfavourable weath

Project Date: 
Tue, 01/05/2010
Organization: 
Harvard Business School
  • agriculture
  • crop losses
  • Crop production
  • crop yield
  • crops
  • Economic Growth
  • farmers
  • Insurance
  • low income countries
  • Microfinance
  • Microinsurance
  • middle income countries
  • Risk Management
  • rural livelihoods
  • systematic review
  • Weather


TFF Working Groups on Forest Policy and Biodiversity

Region: 
Global
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3498/Default.aspx
Description: 

Since the Earth Summit in 1992

Organization: 
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Tropical Forest Forum
  • biodiversity
  • biodiversity DEFRA
  • forest policy
  • forests
  • international negotiations
  • rural livelihoods
  • Trade


The delivery of animal health services to the rural poor: a framework for analysis

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Bolivia
Country: 
India
Country: 
Kenya
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2217/Default.aspx
Description: 

The objective of the study is

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/04/1999
Organization: 
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
CIPCA
Focal Point Livestock and Rangelands
Indo-Swiss Project
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
National Veterinary Epidemiology Unit, UNIVEP
Rural Agriculture and Pastoralist Programme Manager
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
University of Reading
Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit, Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
World Bank
  • animal health
  • Assessment
  • development projects
  • Livestock
  • livestock development
  • livestock health and diseases
  • livestock keepers
  • livestock production
  • Methodology
  • Poverty
  • poverty alleviation
  • pro-poor interventions
  • role of women
  • rural livelihoods
  • veterinary services


Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme (SSA CP)

Region: 
Global
Country: 
Global
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60686/Default.aspx
Description: 

A study of Africa's ARD ini

Project Date: 
Fri, 01/04/2008
Organization: 
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
  • agricultural research
  • agriculture
  • agronomy
  • baseline surveys
  • budgets
  • Capacity Building
  • cereals
  • communities
  • Coordination
  • Crop Management
  • Crop production
  • crop yield
  • Data collection
  • data management
  • Development
  • documentation
  • Evaluation
  • experimental design
  • farmer participatory research
  • farmers
  • Food Security
  • grain legumes
  • horticulture
  • households
  • impact assessment
  • innovation
  • integrated crop management
  • irrigated farming
  • Learning
  • legumes
  • livelihoods
  • Livestock
  • Maize
  • Market Access
  • Methodology
  • Monitoring
  • natural resources
  • nutrients
  • plant nutrition
  • project management
  • rainfed farming
  • recruitment
  • Research
  • research programmes
  • research uptake
  • Rice
  • rural livelihoods
  • seed production
  • skills
  • Smallholder farmers
  • smallholders
  • social networks
  • soil fertility
  • soil management
  • soils
  • Sorghum
  • surveys
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Technology transfer
  • Training
  • Value Chain
  • Vegetables
  • villages
  • Water
  • workshops


Strengthening the contribution of women to household livelihood through improved livestock production interventions and strategies in the Teso Farming Systems region

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Uganda
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3100/Default.aspx
Description: 

The Teso Farming system region

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/04/2001
Organization: 
African Women's Economic Policy Network
Aliat, Uganda
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Serere Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit, Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
  • female headed households
  • gender issues
  • Government Policy
  • livelihood security
  • livestock production
  • livestock rearing
  • poverty reduction strategies
  • role of women
  • rural livelihoods


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