Capacity Building
Printer-friendly versionWater 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
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
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
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
Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS)
Region:
Global
Country:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60568/Default.aspx Project Date:
Wed, 01/04/1995
- advocacy
- animal health
- Aquaculture
- Capacity Building
- capacity development
- communication
- Crop production
- crop protection
- crops
- Developing Countries
- Fish Genetics
- fisheries
- forestry
- forestry research
- forests
- gender
- impact assessment
- innovation
- lessons learned
- Livestock
- livestock production
- mainstreaming
- measurement
- Monitoring and evaluation
- natural resources
- natural resources management
- Oryza sativa
- participatory research
- peri-urban agriculture
- planning
- plants
- Policy
- policy development
- policy makers
- Policy Reform
- postharvest
- postharvest fisheries
- Poverty
- poverty analysis
- poverty mapping
- Poverty Reduction
- pro-poor policy
- programme management
- renewable natural resources
- Research
- research policy
- research programmes
- research strategy
- research uptake
- reviews
- Rice
- rural livelihoods
- Sustainable Agriculture
- sustainable livelihoods
- upper catchments
- urban agriculture
- water management
- 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
Promotion of sustainable sweet potato production and post-harvest management through farmer field schools in East Africa.
Region:
Africa
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Uganda
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3055/Default.aspx Description:
As sweet potato can be grown i
Project Date:
Fri, 01/04/2002
Organization:
Centro Internacional de la Papa (International Potato Center)
Centro Internacional de la Papa, Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa
Centro Internacional de la Papa, Uganda
Client-Oriented Agriculture and Dissemination Research Project, Serere Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
East African Sub-Regional Pilot Project for IPPM FFS
National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda)
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
PRAPACE
SOCADIDO
Soroti-Busia IPPM FFS
Southern Africa Root Crop Research Network
- Capacity Building
- crop varieties
- Farmer Field Schools
- income generation
- Ipomoea batatas
- Pest Management
- postharvest
- root crop processing
- smallholders
- Sustainable production systems
- sweet potatoes
- Training
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
Policy Innovation Systems for Clean Energy Security (PISCES)
Region:
Africa
Country:
Sri Lanka
Country:
India
Country:
Kenya
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60510/Default.aspx Description:
The idea behind PISCES is t
Project Date:
Mon, 01/09/2006
Organization:
African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS-Nairobi)
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group), Kenya
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group), Sri Lanka
University of Dar es Salaam
University of Edinburgh
- access to energy
- access to energy services
- agriculture
- Asia
- biodiesel
- bioenergy
- biofuels
- biogas
- biomass
- Capacity Building
- Case Studies
- charcoal
- charcoal burning
- Climate
- commercialization
- communication
- communications
- communications strategy
- Crop production
- Developing Countries
- energy
- energy markets
- energy policy
- energy resources
- energy sources
- Environment
- environmental impact
- feasibility studies
- Food Security
- fuelwood
- gender equity
- gender issues
- Groundwater
- information dissemination
- Jatropha
- knowledge sharing
- markets
- Policy
- policy development
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Private Sector
- renewable energy
- research programmes
- research uptake
- rural livelihoods
- social equity
- socioeconomics
- stakeholders
- stoves
- Technology
- Value Chain
- water resources
- water security