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Printer-friendly versionThe 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
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
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
Improving the quality and value of non-grain starch staples
Region:
Africa
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1423/Default.aspx Description:
Root and tuber crops contribut
Project Date:
Mon, 01/01/1996 - Mon, 01/10/2000
Organization:
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading
Farming Systems Programme, Ukiriguru Agricultural Research Institute
Food Security Department, Natural Resources Institute
National Root and Tuber Crops Programme, Tanzania
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre
Ukiriguru Agricultural Research Institute
- agriculture
- cassava
- ergonomics
- farm income
- fermentation
- food production
- Ipomoea batatas
- Marketing
- markets
- postharvest
- processed products
- quality
- root crops
- sweet potatoes
- urban areas
Improved cassava chip processing to access urban markets
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2774/Default.aspx Description:
The project addresses the broa
Project Date:
Mon, 01/03/2000
Organization:
Crop Post Harvest Programme, Ghana
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Ghana
Food Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
Food Security Department, Natural Resources Institute
Media Majique Ltd
Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Sunyani, Ghana
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Research International
- cassava
- domestic markets
- farmers
- farmers income
- food processing
- Food Products
- income generation
- Manihot esculenta
- markets
- quality assurance
- urban areas
Farmer use of urban waste in Kano
Region:
Africa
Country:
Nigeria
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60316/Default.aspx Description:
Urban solid waste (household r
Project Date:
Sat, 01/01/1994
Organization:
Department of Geography, Bayero University of Kano
Faculty of Law, Bayero University of Kano
Natural Resources Institute
- composts
- Fertilizers
- low input agriculture
- municipal refuse disposal
- peri-urban agriculture
- refuse
- soil fertility
- solid waste collection
- solid wastes
- urban areas
- urban wastes
- waste management
- waste utilization
- wastes
FAO Pro-poor Livestock Policy Facility (PPLPF): Fostering the Policy Dialogue in Support of Equitable Safe and Clean Livestock Farming
Region:
Africa
Country:
India
Country:
Peru
Country:
Senegal
Country:
Burkina Faso
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2355/Default.aspx Description:
Livestock contribute to the li
Project Date:
Tue, 01/12/1999 - Wed, 01/10/2007
Organization:
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
- accessibility
- aerial spraying
- agricultural economics
- agricultural labour markets
- agricultural markets
- Agricultural Policy
- Agricultural Production
- agricultural reform
- agricultural sector
- agricultural trade
- agricultural workers
- agriculture
- agropastoral systems
- alpacas
- Andhra Pradesh
- animal diseases
- animal health
- animal husbandry
- animal production
- animal products
- animal protein
- animal welfare
- avian influenza
- bait techniques
- beef
- biosafety
- Camelidae
- capacity development
- Case Studies
- cattle
- censuses
- Certification
- civil society
- Collaborative relationships
- common agricultural policy (EC)
- communicable diseases
- community initiatives
- community-based workers
- competition
- computer software
- consultation
- consultative visits
- Contracts
- cooperation
- cooperative farming
- corruption
- costs
- dairy cows
- dairy industry
- data analysis
- Data collection
- data exchange
- data provision
- decentralization
- decision support tools
- demand
- demand side management
- demand side mangement
- demography
- Developing Countries
- Development
- disaster preparedness
- disease control
- disease distribution
- disease prevention
- disease surveys
- disease transmission
- Diversification
- domestic consumption
- Economic Development
- economic policy
- economic reform
- economics
- efficiency
- eggs
- empowerment
- environmental assessment
- epidemiology
- expenditure
- exports
- Extension
- farmers
- financial resources
- fish
- fish consumption
- food consumption
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- food standards
- foot and mouth disease
- Forecasting
- forest policy
- funding
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- Globalization
- governance
- government
- Government Policy
- health
- health hazards
- health security
- highlands
- household consumption
- household surveys
- households
- human diseases
- human resources
- impact assessment
- incomes
- indebtedness
- indicators
- industrialization
- informal economy
- innovation
- insect control
- insecticides
- institutional change
- institutions
- Insurance
- intensification
- international agreements
- International Standards
- international trade
- intersectoral cooperation
- interventions
- Investment
- labour supply
- land tenure
- land use
- large scale farming
- law
- liberalism
- liberalization
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock development
- livestock farmers
- livestock farming systems
- livestock keepers
- livestock management
- livestock production
- livestock products
- livestock sector
- mapping
- maps
- Market Access
- market competition
- market traders
- markets
- meat
- meetings
- milk
- milk production
- Millennium Development Goals
- mixed farming
- modelling
- models
- Monitoring
- monitoring disease control
- new crops
- new products
- participation
- partnerships
- pastoral areas
- pastoralists
- peri-urban areas
- peri-urban communities
- phytosanitary measures
- pigs
- Policy
- policy development
- policy formulation
- policy issues
- Policy Reform
- political change
- political power
- political systems
- politics
- politics and government
- poor farmers
- poultry
- poultry farming
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- poverty reduction policy
- poverty reduction strategies
- private investment
- privatization
- pro-poor policy
- production
- production costs
- productivity
- public finance
- public health
- public private partnerships
- public service provision
- public services
- quality assurance
- quality control
- reform
- regulation
- Remote Sensing
- reports
- Risk
- Risk Assessment
- rural areas
- rural change
- Rural development
- rural farmers
- rural income
- rural livelihoods
- rural poor
- satellite surveys
- sector reform
- security
- services
- skills
- small farms
- small scale farmers
- small scale farms
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- social equity
- spatial variation
- stakeholders
- standards
- Statistics
- Strategy
- Subsidies
- Supply Chain
- supply networks
- surveys
- swine
- tariffs
- tax reform
- taxation
- taxonomy
- techniques
- Trade
- trade barriers
- Training
- tsetse fly
- urban areas
- urban poor
- vaccination
- vector control
- veterinary science
- veterinary services
- Vulnerability
- vulnerable groups
- welfare
- world markets
- zoonoses
Enhancing food chain integrity: quality assurance mechanisms for air pollution impacts on fruit and vegetable systems
Region:
South Asia
Country:
India
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2362/Default.aspx Description:
The livelihoods of inhabitants
Project Date:
Sun, 01/02/2000
Organization:
Agricultural Economics Research Centre, Delhi School of Economics
Centre for Science and the Environment
Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University
Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Development Tracks
Imperial College at Silwood Park
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Natural Resources International Limited
Srishti
Toxics Link, New Delhi
Wye College, University of London
- Abelmoschus esculentus
- air pollution
- Beta vulgaris
- Brassica oleracea var. botrytis
- Case Studies
- cauliflowers
- cereals
- consumer behaviour
- Crop production
- cropping systems
- crops
- dairy industry
- economic impact
- food contamination
- Food Policy
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- grain crops
- groundwater pollution
- handling
- health hazards
- heavy metals
- information
- land use
- livelihoods
- markets
- okras
- peri-urban agriculture
- pesticide residues
- pollution
- private sector participation
- quality assurance
- social impact
- socioeconomics
- spinach beet
- urban agriculture
- urban areas
- Vegetables
- washing
Crop Post-Harvest Programme (CPHP)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/9003/Default.aspx Description:
Part of the Renewable Natural
Project Date:
Tue, 01/03/1995
Organization:
Natural Resources International Limited
- agricultural enterprises
- agriculture
- agrochemicals
- Ananas comosus
- bioavailability
- Capacity Building
- Case Studies
- cash crops
- cassava
- cereals
- children
- commercialization
- communication technology
- Constraints
- cooperation
- Credit
- Crop production
- crop protection
- crops
- Developing Countries
- diatomaceous earth
- dissemination of research
- Diversification
- economics
- employment opportunities
- ethical trade
- ethics
- Extension
- Farmers Organizations
- fisheries
- food chains
- food consumption
- Food Crops
- food marketing
- food markets
- food processing
- Food Products
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- foods
- forestry
- Fruits
- gender issues
- GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
- grain protectants
- grain storage
- handling
- health
- HIV/AIDS
- horticulture
- human nutrition
- human resources
- ICTs (information and communication technologies)
- impact
- income generation
- indigenous fruits
- information provision
- innovation
- innovation adoption
- institutional strengthening
- institutions
- international trade
- interviews
- Ipomoea batatas
- knowledge management
- knowledge sharing
- labour productivity
- Learning
- legumes
- linkages
- livelihood security
- livestock management
- livestock production
- Maize
- Manihot esculenta
- Market Access
- market competition
- market information
- Marketing
- markets
- Media
- micro-enterprise
- micronutrients
- migration
- natural resources
- natural resources management
- non-farm rural sector
- nutritive value
- Oryza sativa
- partnerships
- pest control
- pest insects
- pineapples
- Policy
- Policy Research
- population growth
- postharvest
- postharvest losses
- postharvest technology
- Poverty Reduction
- preservation
- pro-poor policy
- processing
- quality standards
- radio
- renewable energy
- renewable natural resources
- reports
- Research
- research programmes
- research projects
- research strategy
- reviews
- Rice
- rural areas
- rural livelihoods
- rural poverty
- rural-urban relations
- small producers
- small scale farmers
- Smallholder farmers
- stakeholders
- Storage
- stored products pests
- street foods
- street vendors
- Supply Chain
- sustainability
- sustainable livelihoods
- sweet potatoes
- technological innovations
- Trade
- Traditional foods
- Training
- transport
- urban areas
- urbanisation
- Vegetables
- vigna subterranea
- villages
- warehouses
- weed management
- weeds
- women
- workforce
- working conditions
- Zea mays
Urban market opportunities for high quality cassava products in Ghana.
Publication Date:
2002
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana Publications Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Output/56434/Default.aspx