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Access Agriculture

Image: 
image/png iconAccess Agriculture Logo.PNG
Web Address: 
http://www.accessagriculture.org/
Country: 
Global
Areas of Work: 
Capacity building/training/research
Brief summary of organization’s risk management work: 

Access Agriculture is an international NGO which showcases agricultural training videos in local languages.  Here you can see examples of videos, download them or order a DVD copy.  The audio tracks can also be downloaded by radio stations.

Access Agriculture is a platform for agricultural R&D staff, service providers, extension agents, communication professionals and representatives of farmer organisations to see what training videos are available and request new language versions.The videos are all designed to support sustainable agriculture in developing countries.

For maximum impact in improving opportunities for farmers explore Access Agriculture.

  • AgTube
  • cereals
  • crops
  • fish
  • Livestock
  • online
  • online training
  • Potato
  • Training
  • Training institution
  • Vegetables


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 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 Influence of Work Stress and Nutritional Status on the Trypano-tolerance of N'Dama Cattle to a secondary Trypanosome Challenge

Region: 
Global
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1287/Default.aspx
Description: 

Results from a previous joint

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/04/1996
Organization: 
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Rural Livelihoods Department, Department for International Development (UK)
  • cattle disease resistance
  • Livestock
  • nutritional status
  • stress
  • Training
  • trypanosomiasis


The epidemiology of maize streak virus disease and the ecology of its leafhopper vectors

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Nigeria
Country: 
Uganda
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/797/Default.aspx
Description: 

Maize streak virus disease (MS

Project Date: 
Sun, 01/06/1991
Organization: 
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
  • Arthropoda
  • Cicadulina
  • disease transmission
  • environmental factors
  • epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of Plant Diseases and Windborne Pests
  • genetic vectors
  • Homopteran Pests and Vectors
  • Maize
  • Training
  • virology


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 Capacity for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa (SCARDA)

Region: 
Africa
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60644/Default.aspx
Description: 

Although the overall projec

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/01/2007
Organization: 
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
Conference des Responsables de Recherche Agronomique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et de Centre
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
  • Agricultural Development
  • agricultural information
  • agricultural research
  • agriculture
  • Biotechnology
  • Capacity Building
  • capacity development
  • gender
  • information management
  • institutional capacity
  • institutional capacity building
  • institutional development
  • institutional issues
  • institutions
  • Research
  • systematic review
  • Training


Selection criteria and co-management guidelines for harvest reserves in tropical river fisheries

Region: 
East Asia and Pacific
Country: 
Bangladesh
Country: 
Indonesia
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1888/Default.aspx
Description: 

Harvest reserves are used in m

Organization: 
Central Research Institute for Fisheries, Indonesia
Dinas Perikanan
Marine Resources Assessment Group Limited
  • areas
  • artisanal fisheries
  • Buffer Stocks
  • Case Studies
  • catch composition
  • catch effort
  • classification
  • Data collection
  • economic impact
  • fish stocks
  • fisheries
  • fishery management
  • fishery policy
  • fishery production
  • fishery resources
  • fishing communities
  • floodplains
  • guidelines
  • information dissemination
  • institutions
  • Learning
  • length
  • marine areas
  • Methodology
  • Monitoring
  • protected areas
  • Regulations
  • rivers
  • socioeconomics
  • stock assessment
  • stock enhancement
  • surveys
  • Training
  • trends
  • tropical fish


Rural Livelihoods Monitoring

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Bangladesh
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60902/Default.aspx
Description: 

The Rural Livelihood Progra

Project Date: 
Sat, 01/12/2002
Organization: 
BETS Consulting Services Ltd
ITAD Limited
Social Development Direct
Socioconsult Ltd
Technical Assistance to Non-Governmental Organizations
  • action research
  • agricultural research
  • agriculture
  • aquatic resources
  • Capacity Building
  • civil society
  • civil society organizations
  • communication process
  • communities
  • community participation
  • community-based management
  • community-based organizations
  • conflict management
  • Contracts
  • Crop production
  • crops
  • decision making
  • demand
  • donors
  • economic analysis
  • economics
  • educational quality
  • efficiency
  • empowerment
  • Evaluation
  • Extension
  • extension activities
  • extension services
  • Farm Power and Machinery
  • Farmer Field Schools
  • fish farming
  • fisheries
  • fisheries management
  • fishery policy
  • fishery resources
  • Food Security
  • gender equality
  • gender equity
  • gender issues
  • gender relations
  • good governance
  • governance
  • government
  • grants
  • higher education
  • home gardens
  • human resource development
  • human resources
  • impact
  • impact assessment
  • inland fisheries
  • innovation
  • institutional capacity
  • institutional development
  • institutional reform
  • institutions
  • landless poor
  • leadership
  • lessons learned
  • livelihood security
  • mainstreaming
  • Management
  • marginal farms
  • Monitoring
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • national government
  • natural resources management
  • networks
  • NGOs (non-governmental organizations)
  • organizational change
  • organizational development
  • organizations
  • Oryza sativa
  • outsourcing
  • participation
  • partnerships
  • Policy
  • Poverty
  • poverty analysis
  • power relations
  • Private Sector
  • project design
  • public sector
  • recruitment
  • research programmes
  • research projects
  • resource management
  • Rice
  • rights of women
  • rural livelihoods
  • rural poor
  • skills training
  • small farms
  • social capital
  • social structure
  • strategic planning
  • strategy development
  • sustainability
  • teaching standards
  • Training
  • universities
  • women


Reaping the Benefits: Assessing the impact and facilitating the uptake of resource-conserving technologies in the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plain

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Bangladesh
Country: 
India
Country: 
Nepal
Country: 
Pakistan
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3706/Default.aspx
Description: 

According to the Rice-Wheat

Project Date: 
Thu, 01/10/2002
Organization: 
Banaras Hindu University
CAB International
CABI Bioscience Pakistan Centre
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo, Nepal
Crop Disease Research Institute, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology
National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan
Nepal Agricultural Research Council
Rice Wheat Consortium for the Indo Gangetic Plains
Wheat Research Centre, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
  • access to information
  • agriculture
  • Capacity Building
  • cash crops
  • caste
  • Constraints
  • Crop production
  • crop varieties
  • crop yield
  • crops
  • Crops CS
  • disease surveys
  • Farmer Field Schools
  • farmers
  • farmers income
  • floodplains
  • gender
  • impact assessment
  • income generation
  • information dissemination
  • innovation adoption
  • knowledge management
  • knowledge sharing
  • landless poor
  • marginal farms
  • Microfinance
  • NR Management CS
  • Oryza sativa
  • pathogens
  • pest surveys
  • plant diseases
  • plant pests
  • pro-poor interventions
  • radio
  • Rice
  • rural livelihoods
  • seed production
  • Seeds
  • socioeconomics
  • subsistence farming
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Sustainable Management
  • technological changes
  • technological innovations
  • Technology adoption
  • Technology transfer
  • technology uptake
  • threshers
  • tillage equipment
  • Training
  • Triticum
  • Triticum aestivum
  • Vegetables
  • villages
  • Wheat
  • women
  • workshops
  • zero tillage


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