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This section describes how DFID research activities are making a difference. For more information click here.
The DFID-supported programme providing business development services to small and medium-sized seed companies is helping to transform Africa's growing seed industry
Date Added: 21 August 2008
Poor farmers across Sierra Leone now have better and more regular access to reliable advice on plant health problems, after the DFID-funded Global Plant Clinic provided the Sierra Leone government with a way forward
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 19 August 2008
Research from the DFID Trade and Poverty in Latin America programme (COPLA), shows that the agricultural sector of the southern Peruvian Andes, where the poorest people in the country live, is vulnerable to the effects that the imports of goods from the US
Date Added: 31 July 2008
DFID’s research programme SEACAP in South East Asia produces solutions for regional planning and local participation
Date Added: 08 July 2008
Swaziland is experiencing an HIV/AIDS emergency on the scale of traditional emergencies such as tsunamis and earthquakes
Date Added: 07 July 2008
A pilot initiative to provide training to radio and print journalists from East Africa, alongside a major international conference, has helped to strengthen links between scientific researchers and the media
Date Added: 22 May 2008
Lessons of the new farmers of Namary in Niger were captured through the “Adaptation Stories” initiative of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) research and capacity development program
Date Added: 22 May 2008
A team of researchers led by the University of the Free State is working to give planners and farmers access to improved climate information and a range of options to help them prepare for a water-scarce future
Date Added: 22 May 2008
Kenyan researchers are combining climate observation with medical research to improve an existing model of malarial prediction so that local officials can better prepare
Date Added: 22 May 2008
Searching for a new approach to livestock policy and institutional change to improve the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers has been the focus of a DFID-funded initiative
Date Added: 14 May 2008
Anti-retroviral therapy made available for AIDS sufferers in Tanzania
Category: Health
Date Added: 14 May 2008
Key report confirms the critical role of champions inside government to ensure participation works.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 18 March 2008
Encouraging early results from the Citizenship DRC Participatory Video Project suggest videos are providing new ways for research participants to articulate their views, and promote debate with stakeholders
Date Added: 03 March 2008
In 2007 the government of Bangladesh decided to award citizenship rights to a disenfranchised ethnic grouping, the Bihari, following a campaign by the DFID-funded Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 17 January 2008
Can policy makers and citizens find ways of improving the accountability of local government in India and Pakistan?
Date Added: 19 December 2007
Researchers at the DFID-funded Migration DRC tackled the key issue of lack of migration statistics by creating a unique picture of migration, providing bilateral data for the year 2000 for each of 226 countries in the world
Date Added: 14 December 2007
Enabling long-term sustainable use of land and water, through management by local communities
Categories: Capacity Building, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 06 December 2007
Livelihoods of micro entrepreneurs should be taken into account in infrastructure and service development
Category: Infrastructure
Date Added: 15 November 2007
Investigating the impacts of diffuse agricultural pollution on water quality and on livelihoods in intensively irrigated tropical and sub-tropical areas
Date Added: 09 November 2007
Should a policy recommending that pregnant women take a combination of vitamins and minerals to improve the weights and outcomes of their babies be introduced?
Category: Health
Date Added: 09 November 2007