Seeds
Printer-friendly versionUnderstanding traditional patterns of multi-purpose tree seed exchange and use in small farm communities
Region:
Global
Country:
Sri Lanka
Country:
Honduras
Country:
Malawi
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1050/Default.aspx Description:
There has been much research c
Project Date:
Thu, 01/06/1994
Organization:
Natural Resources International Limited
Overseas Development Institute
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 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 NGOs in promoting in situ conservation of food crops as a means of maintaining agro-biodiversity in India
Region:
South Asia
Country:
India
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1727/Default.aspx Description:
Large quantities of genetic ma
Project Date:
Thu, 01/11/1996
Organization:
International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
Natural Resources International Limited
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group)
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group), Peru
- agriculture
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Food Crops
- gene banks
- NGOs (non-governmental organizations)
- Seeds
- small farms
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 organisation of small-scale seed provision: The case of potatoes in Bolivia
Region:
Latin America and Caribbean
Country:
Bolivia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1897/Default.aspx Description:
Inefficient seed systems are o
Project Date:
Sat, 01/11/1997
Organization:
CAZS Natural Resources, University of Wales, Bangor
Overseas Development Institute
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
The exchange of information between seed enterprises and farmers: pearl millet seed in Rajasthan.
Region:
South Asia
Country:
India
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1898/Default.aspx Description:
Inefficient seed systems are o
Project Date:
Sat, 01/11/1997
Organization:
CAZS Natural Resources, University of Wales, Bangor
National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (India)
Overseas Development Institute
The Development and Testing of Seed-Priming to Improve Stand Establishment, Early Growth and yield in Semi-Arid Zimbabwe and India.
Region:
Global
Country:
India
Country:
Zimbabwe
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1479/Default.aspx Description:
In many semi-arid areas establ
Project Date:
Tue, 01/10/1995
Organization:
CAZS Natural Resources, University of Wales, Bangor
KRIBHCO Indo-British Rainfed Farming Project (West)
Save Valley Research Station
University of Nottingham
- agriculture
- appropriate technology
- cereals
- Cotton
- knowledge
- Maize
- millet
- pearl millet
- plant establishment
- pregermination
- Rice
- seed priming
- Seeds
- semiarid climate
- Sorghum
- upland rice
Support for Maseno Inter-Christian Child Welfare through improved production of traditional foods
Region:
Africa
Country:
Kenya
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3535/Default.aspx Description:
Maseno Inter-Christian Child W
Organization:
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kakamega
Maseno Inter-Christian Child Welfare
Maseno University
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited