Agriculture newsfeed on DFID funded research

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

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

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

A call for Research Summaries for the Global Research Seminar, UNESCO, Paris, 28-30 November, 2008

Paddy production in Africa has been on the rise for six years, helped by new varieties of rice known as NERICA introduced by WARDA

DFID will look ?beyond aid? to find out what makes development processes more likely to succeed; and how to make sure developing countries can make the most of new and emerging technology

The Vitamin A for Africa Programme (VITAA) successfully promotes a new orange-fleshed variety of sweet potato

Benchmarking procedures are promoted to improve the management of agricultural water services

Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, takes part in a live webchat on the Downing Street website

An innovative school gardening initiative in Kenya has been hailed a success following a pilot scheme, which also involved young people, teachers, project leaders, families and communities in the UK and India to garden and grow crops

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

Investigating the impacts of diffuse agricultural pollution on water quality and on livelihoods in intensively irrigated tropical and sub-tropical areas

The DFID Annual report gives a full account of spending over the past last year, and pledges on spending in coming years

Enabling long-term sustainable use of land and water, through management by local communities

Twelve new projects have been launched under the joint DFID/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) initiative: Sustainable Agriculture Research for Sustainable Development (SARID).