The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) is organising a two-day workshop on the theme of mobilisation for political violence to be held in Oxford on 17 and 18 March 2009.
The Research into Use programme has produced a series of short syntheses which bring together key lessons for up-scaling and out-scaling research based on 19 key reviews, summaries and reports detailing DFID natural resources research.
Nominations for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) science awards, for those who have excelled in science, are invited by 1 September 2008
A new project, funded as part of the Research into Use programme, will build on previous research to develop the use of ecologically-based rodent management techniques in Bangladesh
Researchers, scientists, academics and others working in fields related to climate change and climate change adaptation are invited to submit applications for the African Climate Change Fellowship Program
A successful workshop was held by the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG Research Consortium) in Nairobi on 10-11 July 2008 to initiate the research work on State-Business Relations (SBRs) in Africa.
The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) is organising a two-day workshop on the theme of the law and group inequalities to be held on 14 and 15 May 2009 in Guatemala.
A new director has been appointed to manage the Living With Environmental Change programme (LWEC), the partnership of research, business and policy-making organisations which is examining ways for society and individual people to adapt to the environmental changes that we face
Changing Lives, a collaborative project between DFID Research and InterPress Service (IPS), a press agency that covers the global South, uncovers a hotbed of the kind of exciting stories that the media are itching to tell
SciDev.Net has published a set of articles about the need to prioritise the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases affecting millions in developing countries
Research into the carbon footprint of South African fruit and wine exports could challenge the idea that exported products from the developing world have a bigger environmental cost
African science has received a boost with the announcement of a £3.3 million partnership between the Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society to fund collaborations between scientists in Ghana, Tanzania and the UK
The Department for International Development (DFID) wishes to invite proposals from organisations to manage and implement the research programme during its fourth and final phase of the Young Lives Programme
The Chronic Poverty Report 2008–09: New solutions to escape poverty traps reminds us that ‘alleviating chronic poverty is not merely a question of economics. It is a moral imperative’ according to UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown