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mNutrition Ghana Endline Study by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…mNutrition was a five-year global initiative supported by the Department for International Development (DFID) between 2013 and 2018, organized by GSMA, implemented by in-country mobile network operators and evaluated by researchers from GAMOS, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), with the objective of building effective mobile phone-based advisory services for improving nutrition outcomes. …”
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Climate Services for Resilient Development in South Asia: Mid-term Report, January - June 2018 by Krupnik, Timothy J., Hussain, G., Montes, C., Schulthess, Urs C., Siddiquee, A.A., Rahman, M.S., Khan, M.S.H., Salam, M.U., Khanam, Fahmida, Miah, A.A., Hasan, M.A., Kamal, M., Hossain, K., Hassan, A.M., Haque, A., Kurishi, K.A., Rokon, G.M., Uddin, S., Billah, M.M., Tasnim, Tasfia, Fernandes, Jose M.C.

“…CSRD is led by the United States Government and is supported by the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID), UK Meteorological Office, ESRI, Google, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the American Red Cross. …”
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Proceedings of the ‘Working together to consider the role of biofortification in the global food chain’ workshop by Lockyer, S., White, A., Walton, Jenny, Buttriss, J. L.

“…A workshop, jointly hosted by the British Nutrition Foundation, HarvestPlus and the UK government’s Department for International Development, was held in May 2018 in London to discuss the potential of introducing biofortified foods into the UK market. …”
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An overview of modelling climate change impacts in the Caribbean region with contribution from the Pacific Islands by Simpson, Murray C., Scott, Daniel, New, Mark, Sim, Ryan, Smith, David, Harrison, Mike, Eakin, C. Mark, Warrick, Richard, Strong, Alan E., Kouwenhoven, Peter, Harrison, Stephan, Wilson, Matt, Nelson, Gerald C., Donner, Simon, Kay, Robert, Geldhill, Dwight K., Liu, Gang, Morgan, Jessica A., Kleypas, Joanie A., Mumby, Peter J., Christensen, Tyler R.L., Baskett, Marissa L., Skirving, William J., Elrick, Carmen, Taylor, Mary, Bell, Johann, Rutty, Michelle K., Burnett, John Burke, Overmas, Marc, Robertson, Richard D., Stager, Heather

“…This report was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sub-Regional Office for Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), with support from Australia’s International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative. …”
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Assessment of the determinants and economic benefits of adoption of improved sweetpotato varieties in Uganda by Feukeng, F., Otieno, D.J., Okello, J.J., Rajendran, S.

“…In the sweetpotato sector in Uganda, the government and its partners, notably the International Potato Center with financial support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have been working to improve access to quality planting materials, access to knowledge and information related to potato production by farmers and other value chain actors. …”
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Market mechanisms and efficiency in urban dairy products markets in Ghana and Tanzania by Omore, Amos O., Staal, Steven J., Wanyoike, Francis N., Osafo, E.L.K., Kurwijila, Lusato R., Barton, David N., Mdoe, N.S.Y., Nurah, G.K., Aning, G.

“…Funding was obtained from the UK Department for International Development-Livestock Production Programme (DFID-LPP). …”
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Prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in the Lake Kyoga Basin, Uganda by Nsadha, Z., Thomas, Lian F., Fèvre, Eric M., Nasinyama, G., Ojok, L., Waiswa, C.

“…<i>T. solium</i> has been acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UK Department for International Development (DFID) as being a neglected zoonotic disease, and was recently was included in the WHO roadmap for control of neglected tropical diseases. …”
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A systematic review of zoonoses transmission and livestock/wildlife interactions: Preliminary findings by Grace, Delia, Pfeiffer, Dirk U., Kock, R., Rushton, Jonathan, Mutua, Florence K., McDermott, John J., Jones, B.

“…We present the initial findings of a multi-disciplinary, systematic review commissioned by the Department for International Development (UK) to synthesize best available scientific knowledge about zoonotic disease transmission through direct or indirect domestic livestock/wildlife interaction, with emphasis on risk factors, drivers and trajectories of transmission, and promising interventions for controlling important zoonoses based on managing domestic livestock/wildlife interaction. …”
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Participatory crop improvement in maize in Gujarat, India by Goyal, S.N., Joshi, A., Witcombe, John R.

“…This paper describes a participatory plant-breeding (PPB) program for maize in a rural development project financed by the United Kingdom's Department of International Development (DFID) and the Government of India and executed by the Krishak Bharati Cooperative (KRIBHCO). …”
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How smallholder dairy systems in Kenya contribute to food security and poverty alleviation: results of recent collaborative studies by Muriuki, H.G., Mwangi, David Miano, Thorpe, W.R.

“…In order to better understand Kenya’s dairy sub-sector and to identify constraints to, and opportunities for, improving smallholder dairying’s contribution to poverty alleviation and to increased food security, a series of sequential studies have been carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and the International Livestock Research Institute through the Smallholder Dairy (R&D) Project, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). The research has taken a holistic market-oriented production-to-consumption approach with interdisciplinary teams evaluating dairy systems and the interactions of economics, policy, agro-ecology and technology that define their structure. …”
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Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) by Harvey, Blane, Ensor, Jonathan, Garside, Ben, Woodend, John, Naess, Lars Otto, Carlile, Liz

“…Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) was established as a programme in 2009 by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as a way to synthesise research and policy lessons from Latin America and discuss them with a global audience – as part of a responsible exit strategy from bilateral aid to the region. …”
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Integrated HPAI control in kampong chicken in Indonesia—An overview on ILRI's research and lessons learned by Unger, Fred, Bett, Bernard K., Siregar, E.S., Idris, S., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Research on pro-poor HPAI risk reduction strategies, jointly carried out from 2007–2011 with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), followed an integrated research design with four main components: disease risk, institutional analysis, livelihood impacts, and synthesis (risk mitigation analysis). …”
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Climate Services for Resilient Development in South Asia Annual Report: January to December 2019 by Krupnik, Timothy J., Hussain, Ghulam, Montes, Carlo, Schulthess, Christoph, Siddiquee, Ansar Ahammed, Rahman, Syed, Khan, Mohammad Shahidul Haque, Khanam, Fahmida, Miah, Azahar Ali, Hasan, Alfi, Kamal, Mustafa, Hossain, Khaled, Haque, Anarul, Kurishi, Alanuzzaman, Rokon, Golam Morshed, Uddin, M. Shahab, Billah, Mutasim, Tasnim, Tasfia, Fernandes, José Maurício Cunha

“…The partnership is led by the United States Government and supported by the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID), the UK Meteorological Office, ESRI, Google, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the American Red Cross. …”
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Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio by Costa, Ciniro, Dittmer, Kyle M, Oliveira Quintana, Gabriel de, Shelton, Sadie W., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…This report provides an initial, rapid assessment of a selection of programmes in the commercial agricultural portfolio of the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DfID) (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offices or FCDO) to demonstrate a range of interventions and their likely net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission impacts. …”
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Prospective Foodborne Disease Epidemiology Studies in Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Healthcare Worker Study by Kowalcyk, Barbara, Alonso, Silvia, Gazu, Lina, LaPolt, Devin, Azmeraye, Binyam, Teshale, Amete, Ngwili, Nicholas, Angaw, Dessie, Ayana, Galana, Beczkiewicz, Aaron, Garsow, Ariel, Barkley, James, Degefaw, Desalegne, Yimer, Getnet, Scharff, Robert

“…This is a working package under a bigger project named "Estimating the public health burden of Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, and Campylobacter in Ethiopia" (TARTARE) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development. The overarching goal of TARTARE is to reduce morbidity and mortality from foodborne disease by developing a risk-based framework for making decisions and allocating resources around food safety across the food systems of low- and middle-income countries using Ethiopia as a model. …”
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Food safety in developing countries: An overview by Grace, Delia

“…This peer reviewed learning resource has been produced by the International Livestock Research Institute in partnership with Evidence on Demand and with the assistance of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) contracted through the Climate, Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods Professional Evidence and Applied Knowledge Services (CEIL PEAKS) programme, jointly managed by DAI (incorporating HTSPE Limited) and IMC Worldwide Limited.…”
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Report on the scoping study for the project on ‘Impact Evaluation Approaches for Collaborative Agricultural Research and Development’ by CGIAR Institutional Learning and Change Initiative, Natural Resources Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

“…Coordinated by the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative, an Inter-Centre Initiative hosted by Bioversity International, in collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), an Australian university, and Research Into Use (RIU), a programme funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the study sought to follow up on the findings of an international workshop on ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’, held in Colombia in March 2008. …”
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Utilisation de l'Information Climatique au Mali-Manuel technique à l'usage des agents publics et privés du développement rural by Traoré, Bouba, Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Zemadim, Birhanu, Zougmoré, Robert B., Tabo, Ramadjita

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Manual de diligenciamiento para el análisis de los medios de vida (MDV) y de la gestión del riesgo de desastres (GRD) a nivel comunitario

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Guía de extensión agropecuaria en gestión del riesgo agroclimático

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