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This section describes how DFID research activities are making a difference. For more information click here.
The Global Alliance for Livestock Vaccines and medicines (GALVmed), a public private partnership supported by DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has facilitated the production of a million doses of an experimental vaccine against a tick-borne disease of cattle in Africa
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 08 October 2009
With over 200,000 readers around the world, New Agriculturist covers a wide range of stories and issues in agriculture and rural development
Date Added: 17 July 2009
Maize is an important staple crop in Rwanda with the potential for export if production can be significantly increased. The DFID-funded Research into Use Programme is working with a network of local partners to achieve that aim through a Maize Innovation Platform in Rwanda's Eastern Province.
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 08 July 2009
Climate change is creating real changes in the Nepal Himalaya, and the effect is more pronounced in the mountains than in the low-lying areas. Georgina Smith visited the Sundari community to see how a DFID-funded Research into Use initiative is helping local communities to live with potential climate change induced vulnerabilities
Date Added: 04 June 2009
Recorded by Africans for Africans, the DFID-funded AGFAX monthly radio service, now in its 15th year, provides the latest information on agricultural and rural development to agricultural broadcasters and, through them, to millions of listeners across Africa
Date Added: 21 May 2009
Using an integrated pest management strategy to control the aubergine pest - the eggplant fruit and shoot borer - has dramatically reduced pesticide use on the crop in Bangladesh and India. Control involved good sanitation practices in crops, resistant varieties, biological control methods, and a wide-scale publicity and promotion programme
Date Added: 02 April 2009
Stories are a common tool used by farmers to communicate and get their message across. So could storytelling be a useful way for farmers to share experiences and information with scientists? An ICARDA-led Pilot Project is examining the value of storytelling, as a way of helping farmers to share their findings during plant breeding trials, and discuss their experience of farming more generally
Date Added: 31 March 2009
With the help of the DFID-funded Climate Change Adaptation in Africa programme, the women farmers in the semi-arid central region of Tanzania are gaining an understanding of how to adapt farming practices to better cope with the changing conditions
Date Added: 11 December 2008
Makutano Junction, the Kenyan TV drama series responds to text messages from its regular TV viewers requesting follow up information on development issues and shows that the message is getting into farming areas
Date Added: 02 October 2008
A regional initiative of the International Potato Center has been helping small farmers in Bolivia access high-value markets for their traditional freeze-dried potato products
Date Added: 18 September 2008
New standards proposed for livestock products from Africa could fundamentally change the way in which meat is imported into key markets and help poor livestock producers trade their way out of poverty
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 03 September 2008
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
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
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
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
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