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Q News, Volume 3, Issue 1 (August 2005)
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Hands On – ‘Africa Works’
Stories from CPHP-funded research to strengthen the informally-vended foods sector in Africa will be broadcast in a BBC World Service radio programme called Africa Works, made by Television Trust for the Environment, and funded by DFID’s Central Research Department (Communications Team), at the following times (all times
in GMT):
- Friday 29th July @ 19.30 (origination)
- Saturday 30th July @ 05.30
- Sunday 31st July @ 00.30
- Monday 1st Aug @ 09.30
- Tuesday 2nd Aug @ 16.30
- Wednesday 3rd Aug @ 01.30
- Wednesday 4th Aug @ 07.30
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| The DFID Response to Electronic Consultation on the proposed Strategy for Research on Sustainable Agriculture can be viewed here http://www.dfid.gov.uk/research/ |
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Enhancing innovation through competitive agricultural technology funds in E & N Uganda - Procedures, lessons learnt & outputs
Dear Colleague
The National Agricultural Research Organisation implemented the Client-oriented Agricultural Research & Dissemination Project in E & N Uganda from 1999 to 2004, with assistance from the UK Department of International Development. The project piloted competitive agricultural technology funds managed by a multi-stakeholder local organizing committee in E Uganda. Procedures, lessons learnt and outputs can now be accessed from the NARO website (http://www.naro.go.ug) or directly on http://www.coard.co.uk
Materials available include:
- Procedures & Lessons Learnt in Operating Locally Managed Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds;
- Impact Assessment Procedures for Pluralistic, Multi-Stakeholder Agricultural Research & Dissemination Projects;
- Processes for Demand Articulation for Agricultural Research;
- Participatory Economic Assessment of Technologies;
- Seed Systems, Soil Productivity Systems & Agricultural Knowledge Systems in E & N Uganda;
- Information Materials for Farmers on a wide range of agricultural technologies;
- Proceedings of the Conference hosted by NARO and MAK on Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D)
I hope these will prove useful to agricultural development workers in Uganda, E Africa and world-wide. Comments and feedback would be very welcome, and should be sent to:director@narosaari.org
Dr L K Serunjogi, Ag Director of Research
Serere Agriculture & Animal Research Institute (SAARI)
P O Soroti, Uganda
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AgREN Network Paper No 134 (January 2004) BRIGGS, S and MATSAERT, H. Strengthening Poverty Reduction Programmes Using an Actor-Orientated Approach: Examples From Natural Resources Innovation Systems
Paper exploring the use of actor-oriented approaches in natural resource-based development. To view paper click here. Network papers cost £3.00 sterling each (plus postage and packing). Network papers may be downloaded free of charge from the AgREN website http://www.odi.org.uk/agren/. |
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| Science, but not as you know it! Did You Know…? is a new publication
produced by NR International with contributions from CPHP Project Leaders. It
provides a view of a world rarely seen by most people and offers you a chance
to immerse yourself in some incredible stories of lives changing for the better.
It combines straightforward coverage of research and development projects with
a striking visual record in pictures - through the eyes of those who live and
work there. The book also includes a selection of videos on CD. Local Kent school
children were asked to select their favourite entry and chose CPP Project Leader,
Dr Steven Belmain, and his project on Ecologically based rodent management for
small-scale farming systems. The prize was a donation of £250 to a charity
of his choice – he chose the NGO FARM-Africa (which has been working with
poor rural African farmers and herders since 1985). Click on press
release to read more. To download the book as a PDF click Did
You Know ...? |
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Second stage of competitive bidding
Following the Programme’s review of the 59 Short Concept Notes received in response to its call of 18 August 2004, 19 teams have been invited to develop their proposals into full project memoranda. The deadline for submission is 2 December 2004, to allow sufficient time for the Programme Advisory Committee to consider the proposals fully before they meet to advise the Programme on
13 December 2004. |
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The CPHP Advisory Committee: A review 1995 - 2004
The initial report in a series setting out the experiences and practical lessons
learned over a decade by the management team of DFID’s Crop Post-Harvest
Programme. Click here to view pdf. |
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Q News, Volume 2, Issue 2 (October 2004)
Click here Q News to view the fifth issue of the CPHP Newsletter. |
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Good response to call for proposals
The CPHP was delighted to receive 59 Short Concept Notes in response to its call of 18 August 2004. These were reviewed by the Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) on 5 and 6 October. Drawing on the advice of the PAC, and based on the resources available to the programme (yet to be confirmed by DFID), the Programme Manager will select a number of proposals for development into full proposals. All proposers will be contacted individually by the end of October by the Programme Manager, to notify them of the Programme’s decision. Full proposals will be reviewed by the PAC on 13 December 2004; the submission date will be approx. 10 days before then. |
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