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RIU Best Bet exemplar selected by RIU after a review of existing promising work emerging from the
RNRRS legacy
:
Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness
, Uganda
Five projects were awarded grants during the
first round of proposals
from projects in East, Central and Southern Africa:
NERICA rice seed
, Uganda
Stopstriga
, Kenya and East Africa
Armyworm control tools
, East Africa
Resources for smallholder farmers
v
ShujaazFM
- messages for young people
, Kenya
One project from
the West Africa round
was offered funding:
Bio-pesticide registration
, Ghana
Researchers from Uganda and the UK have shown the critical role that cattle play in the spread by blood-sucking tsetse fly of the deadly disease, sleeping sickness. November 2009
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Entrepreneurs. What sort do we really need?
A new class of entrepreneurs, often operating below the market and policy radar.
Author: Andy Hall
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. June 2010 (250KB)
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