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This section describes how DFID research activities are making a difference. For more information click here.
The Disability Knowledge and Research (Disability KaR) programme, funded by DFID, has found ample evidence that poverty, impairment and disability are interconnected
Category: Health
Date Added: 08 January 2007
Research co-funded by DFID and USAID reveals that Tuberculosis-HIV stigma has severe implications for the treatment of TB Patients
Date Added: 05 January 2007
DFID-funded research results in more equitable distribution of water to poor farmers
Date Added: 19 December 2006
Over 70 per cent of world fisheries are fully, or over exploited. This programme has developed guidelines, to improve resource management, because the sector directly supports over 200 million people
Date Added: 19 December 2006
A Project funded by DFID's Crop Post-Harvest Programme has helped farmers stop columns of marching army worms from devouring their maize
Date Added: 28 November 2006
A collaborative food hygiene research project has helped street vendors in Accra, Ghana to attract more customers and earn more money
Date Added: 28 November 2006
Sanitation marketing is an innovative and cost-effective approach for accelerating demand and uptake of basic hygienic sanitation, reaching large numbers of people in Tanzania within a short period of time
Date Added: 23 November 2006
Researchers at Practical Action work in partnership with local communities to find accessible, acceptable and affordable ways to alleviate smoke
Date Added: 22 November 2006
Malaria control relies on understanding the interplay of factors that influence the behaviours of both those who suffer from malaria and those who provide health care
Date Added: 22 November 2006
Research is tackling the problems faced by people in Africa in many areas including health, agriculture and climate change
Date Added: 28 September 2006
Improving malaria control through the early detection and prediction of epidemics saves lives, which is the focus of the Highland Malaria project (HIMAL)
Date Added: 27 September 2006
Research modelling the hydrology of water catchments aids watershed development programmes.
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 22 August 2006
Research on better insecticide management in cotton in India has helped farmers reduce pesticide use, increase yield and increase their profits
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 22 August 2006
No one has a stake in seeing laws on transplantation enforced
Category: Health
Date Added: 10 August 2006
Building capacity for trade plays an important role in enabling developing countries to take advantage of the opportunities of international trade
Category: Growth
Date Added: 01 August 2006
Sleeping sickness remains a major obstacle to the development of rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa
Category: Health
Date Added: 31 May 2006
Meeting farmers at a truck stop in Bolivia
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 05 May 2006
An environmentally-friendly way to deal with waste...
Category: Infrastructure
Date Added: 11 April 2006
