2010
October
29 October 2010
Zambia plants Conservation Agriculture ideas in media
An estimated 45,000 farming households have been reached by a series of communication initiatives developed by RIU Zambia to spread the word on Conservation Agriculture.
29 October 2010
Dual-purpose cowpeas make hay for Jos cattle
An increasing feature of the RIU programme is the way that the different parts of the portfolio are increasingly working together in creative and mutually beneficial ways, many of which were not immediately obvious...
29 October 2010
Locally produced fish meal delayed by strike action
One of the problems common amongst RIU livestock programmes is the lack of quality animal feed. Work is on-going in Nigeria to address this in the aquaculture sector.
29 October 2010
Warrantage: the solution to "pure exploitation"
A recent article published in the journal African Studies Reviewhas described the Rwandan practice of kotsa imyaka - in which poor farmers sell their maize crops while they are still growing in the field for very low prices - as the "most exploitative system I came across... pure exploitation of their vulnerability to the benefit of the better-off party in this transaction."
29 October 2010
Sierra Leone 'United Against Hunger'...
This year's World Food Day theme, 'United against Hunger', was taken to heart in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Agencies working towards food security, including government ministries, NGOs, public and private sector organizations, UN agencies and research institutions, came together to share ideas at a networking event.
22 October 2010
FIPS: women at heart of 1M interventions
Support from RIU has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of village-based advisors - who are the backbone of the FIPS field force: from 45 at the start of 2010 to 189 today. Between July 2009 and July 2010 FIPS advisors undertook nearly one million interventions - and women figured prominently in both the delivery and the customer-base.
20 October 2010
RIU advocates role of brokers
Leaders from business, government, NGOs and academia gathered recently in London at an event organised by Care International to look at the role of business and enterprise in international development.
18 October 2010
World Food Day
RIU Director, Ian Maudlin, has written a new Update looking at some of the issues that sit behind this year's World Food Days theme of 'Unite against Hunger'.
11 October 2010
What do you think?
Research Into Use would welcome comments on the four new discussion papers posted to the website this week. The papers cover diverse areas of the RIU portfolio. Amongst them are the first two papers written by RIU research fellows:
11 October 2010
Sleeping sickness led Makerere Uni to new teaching model
Our colleagues at SOS Uganda have recently produced a journal article describing how Makerere University Vet School overhauled its approach to training final year students to enable them to provide urgently needed manpower to halt the spread of sleeping sickness in Uganda.
7 October 2010
Private sector egged on by RIU Sierra Leone
In September, RIU News reported that the Poultry Sector Validation Workshop in Sierra Leone had been a great success.
7 October 2010
Promoting use of quality seed
Colleagues from the RIU-funded NERICA rice programme have recently been collaborating with ShujaazFM to develop a series of stories about the importance of using quality seed and best practice for farmer-saved seed.
4 October 2010
Tanzania seek grandparents for their chickens...
The fourth instalment of Vera Mugittu blog has now been published on the RIU website. Over the past few months Vera has chronicled how she has performed her role as a broker and change agent and how the team within the RIU Tanzania office works together to effect change.
4 October 2010
A view of ShujaazFM
Sophie Robinson is taking part in a cultural leadership programme in the North East of England. The region has look and deep cultural connections with South Africa.
October
29 October 2010
Zambia plants Conservation Agriculture ideas in media
An estimated 45,000 farming households have been reached by a series of communication initiatives developed by RIU Zambia to spread the word on Conservation Agriculture.
29 October 2010
Dual-purpose cowpeas make hay for Jos cattle
An increasing feature of the RIU programme is the way that the different parts of the portfolio are increasingly working together in creative and mutually beneficial ways, many of which were not immediately obvious...
29 October 2010
Locally produced fish meal delayed by strike action
One of the problems common amongst RIU livestock programmes is the lack of quality animal feed. Work is on-going in Nigeria to address this in the aquaculture sector.
29 October 2010
Warrantage: the solution to "pure exploitation"
A recent article published in the journal African Studies Reviewhas described the Rwandan practice of kotsa imyaka - in which poor farmers sell their maize crops while they are still growing in the field for very low prices - as the "most exploitative system I came across... pure exploitation of their vulnerability to the benefit of the better-off party in this transaction."
29 October 2010
Sierra Leone 'United Against Hunger'...
This year's World Food Day theme, 'United against Hunger', was taken to heart in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Agencies working towards food security, including government ministries, NGOs, public and private sector organizations, UN agencies and research institutions, came together to share ideas at a networking event.
22 October 2010
FIPS: women at heart of 1M interventions
Support from RIU has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of village-based advisors - who are the backbone of the FIPS field force: from 45 at the start of 2010 to 189 today. Between July 2009 and July 2010 FIPS advisors undertook nearly one million interventions - and women figured prominently in both the delivery and the customer-base.
20 October 2010
RIU advocates role of brokers
Leaders from business, government, NGOs and academia gathered recently in London at an event organised by Care International to look at the role of business and enterprise in international development.
18 October 2010
World Food Day
RIU Director, Ian Maudlin, has written a new Update looking at some of the issues that sit behind this year's World Food Days theme of 'Unite against Hunger'.
11 October 2010
What do you think?
Research Into Use would welcome comments on the four new discussion papers posted to the website this week. The papers cover diverse areas of the RIU portfolio. Amongst them are the first two papers written by RIU research fellows:
11 October 2010
Sleeping sickness led Makerere Uni to new teaching model
Our colleagues at SOS Uganda have recently produced a journal article describing how Makerere University Vet School overhauled its approach to training final year students to enable them to provide urgently needed manpower to halt the spread of sleeping sickness in Uganda.
7 October 2010
Private sector egged on by RIU Sierra Leone
In September, RIU News reported that the Poultry Sector Validation Workshop in Sierra Leone had been a great success.
7 October 2010
Promoting use of quality seed
Colleagues from the RIU-funded NERICA rice programme have recently been collaborating with ShujaazFM to develop a series of stories about the importance of using quality seed and best practice for farmer-saved seed.
4 October 2010
Tanzania seek grandparents for their chickens...
The fourth instalment of Vera Mugittu blog has now been published on the RIU website. Over the past few months Vera has chronicled how she has performed her role as a broker and change agent and how the team within the RIU Tanzania office works together to effect change.
4 October 2010
A view of ShujaazFM
Sophie Robinson is taking part in a cultural leadership programme in the North East of England. The region has look and deep cultural connections with South Africa.
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