Full of beans - new varieties fight drought and sell well - Dissemination of improved beans

Better blackgram and horsegram for the hills of western India - COB rainy season legumes - improved varieties of blackgram and horsegram in Western India

Maize-bean systems - better practices mean better crops - Dissemination of improved crop varieties and crop management practices to improve food security amongst poor farmers in east Africa

A billion people stand to benefit from pigeonpea production improvements - Promotion of integrated pest management technologies for increasing pigeonpea productivity and livelihood security of smallholder farmers in the semi-arid tropics

Cassava processors reap the benefits of new techniques - Improved cassava processing for resource poor households for income generation and to ensure safety

Communities reap the benefits from new, improved cassava varieties - Promotion of control measures for cassava brown streak disease

Fermentation helps meet growing urban demand for cassava products - Commercialisation of traditional processed cassava production to maximise benefits and sustain rural livelihoods

You name it, cassava can do it - Cassava as a commerical industrial commodity

Partnering with farmers in cassava-breeding pays dividends - Farmer participatory client oriented breeding for disease resistant cassava

Chickpea and horsegram to grow after rice in eastern India - COB chickpea and horsegram - improved varieties for eastern India

Boosting chickpea production in Nepal - Development and promotion of high-yielding production of chickpea on cereal fallows: A poverty alleviation technology producing increased income and protein for poor farmers in Nepal

Chickpea, an orphan crop with potential for dry areas - Participatory varietal selection in chickpea - improved varieties for rainfed agriculture in Western India

Putting farmers first in chickpea selection in Bangladesh - PVS chickpea Bangladesh

Improving a poor peoples crop - in Karnataka, India - Participatory varietal selection in finger millet- improved varieties for Karnataka India

Poor farmers in Uganda boost their income with new groundnut varieties - Commercial incentives for groundnut production and farmer led multiplication

New groundnut production techniques promote health and wealth - Simple food safety technologies for health and wealth: Technologies for reducing aflatoxin levels in groundnuts in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

Breeding better groundnut for Sub-Saharan Africa - Improved technologies for groundnut production in sub Saharan Africa

Maize-bean systems - better practices mean better crops - Dissemination of improved crop varieties and crop management practices to improve food security amongst poor farmers in east Africa

Maize varieties picked by farmers for farmers in western and eastern India - COB maize - improved varieties, GH-6 for western India and BVM2 for eastern India

New varieties and methods boost maize production in Tanzania - Improved maize seed system to meet farmers needs in the southern highlands of Tanzania and similar high potential areas

Improved maize fits niches in Indian and Nepalese hill farms - PVS in maize - improved varieties for India (JVM21) and the mid hills of Nepal (Maria Kamena 3)

Maize farmers in East Africa have a new basket of options - Promotion of integrated pest management strategies for Maize grey leaf spot (GLS)

Simple labour-saving ways to boost maize and rice harvests in southern Africa - Improving crop establishment and weed management in both dryland upland and wetland cereal-based systems

New techniques multiply success with potatoes - Sustainable potato seed - tuber management and marketing through commercialisation

Farmers learn to profit from not saving seed - Sustainable potato seed tuber management systems

Direct-seeded rice saves money, water and labour - Facilitating the adoption of direct-seeded rice by smallholders: Sustainable weed management options in the Indo-Gangetic Plains

Rice bred in Nepal is a hit with farmers in the Bangladesh lowlands - PVS and COB in rice - improved varieties for the rainfed lowlands of Bangladesh

One rice does not fit all in Nepal - Better rice varities by client-oriented breeding (COB) in Nepal

Improved rice for uplands, lowlands and in-between - Participatory varietal selection in rice - Improved rice variation for rainfed upland (BG1442 Sarwati), medium land (Pant Dhailo) Rampur, Masuli and lowlands (Swama) for the terai regional of Nepal

Better rice for higher incomes - Enhancing rural livelihoods through improving post harvest handling and rice quality in Ghana

Improved rice for hill farmers in eastern and western India - COB in rice - improved varieties for rainfed, drought-prone ecosystems in eastern and western India

Double cropping rice-fallow systems of south Asia - Double cropping in rice-fallow systems of south Asia

Farmers speed up rice improvement in Ghana - Participatory crop improvement, rice, Ghana

Farmers test new crops for replacing rice fallows - Dry season crops for replacing rice fallows in Nepal

Rice varieties for eastern Indian lowlands - Rice varieties for eastern India

Boosting lowland rice yields and banishing weeds - Direct seeded rice - securing the harvest and raising incomes

Controlling wild rice infestations in cultivated rice - Wild rice management strategies

Boosting rice production - Strategies for participatory irrigation management and multiple water use support by interactive decision support tools

New sorghums combat witchweed - Striga management in sorghum

Farmers now benefit from better sorghum varieties - Participatory varietal selection in Rabi sorghum - improved varieties Phula yashoda, Mauli and Parbhari Moti for India

Transplanted sorghum and pearl millet does well in semi-arid regions - Transplanting sorghum and pearl millet in semi-arid regions.

Better sweet potatoes boost farmers from subsistence to the market economy - Rapid multiplication and distribution of sweet potato varieties

Sweet potato boosts health and incomes - Maximising the potential of fresh sweetpotato for farmer and trader income

Life is sweet with new sweet potato varieties - Sweet potato virus resistant cultivars identified through a decentralised farmer participatory approach and promoteddisease management and promoted

New sweet potato technologies make more the merrier - Sweet potato technologies for food markets and renewable energy

Kale seed multiplication schemes take off in Kenya - Management of virus disease of vegetable crops and the promotion of quality kale seed in Kenya

Giving seed-yams the credit they deserve - Clean seed yam production systems

Yam exporters cut losses and build profits - Improving the domestic and export marketing system for yams in Ghana

Intercropping boosts smallholder tree crops - Intercropping of smallholder plantation tree crops

Trees for fodder and fuel in Nepal - Agroforestry on rice bunds, farm boundaries and marginal bunds in low altitude areas of Nepal

Participatory varietal selection takes into account poor farmers realities - Concepts and opportunities of participatory varietal selection (PVS)

Biotech tools improve pearl millet - Genetic improvement of pearl millet seedling intolerance and terminal drought tolerance

Community-based seed production in Nepal - Concepts and opportunities of community-based seed production (CBSP) for sustainable seed supply system in Nepal

Lessons learned - managing shared resources - Common pool resource management and poverty

Do not neglect rainy season legumes in India - Participatory varietal selection - Rainy season legumes - improved agronomy and improved varieties for India

Client-orientated breeding is quick, cheap and effective - Concepts and opportunities of client orientated breeding (COB)

Rainfall modelling can predict future yields - Rainwater harvesting and management

Irrigated gardens reduce poverty and build empowerment - Partnerships and empowerment: Scaling up irrigated gardens in the semi-arid communal areas of southern Africa

Fair shares for all from the common pool - Rainwater harvesting and management of common pool resources

Push-pull deals with pests and improves soils - Improving livelihoods of smallholders through integrated pest and soil fertility management in maize-livestock production systems

Low-tech plus high-tech for good upland rice - Molecular marker assisted rice breeding

More work for oxen, less work for women and children - Reducing drudgery and improving returns to annual crop production in Uganda through the promotion of draught animal technologies

Legume rotations improve fertility and help control witchweed - Green manure to control striga

Ploughs, hoes and cheap herbicides beat weeds in cotton - Promoting weed management options for cotton-based systems in semi-arid areas of SSA

Farmers learn to make the most of seed - Good seed initiative (GSI) sharing the learning from CPP programme into pro-poor seed systems in east Africa

Clean-gene technology has promise for safe genetically-modified crops - Genetically engineered rice free of selectable marker gene

Double the benefits - using legumes to boost both milk and rice production - Leguminous forages and feed blocks for smallholder mixed farms and landless dairy producers in Bangladesh

Do not let the rain run off - Rainwater harvesting for upgrading and stabilising rainfed agriculture in semi-arid areas

Seed priming in wheat, barley, sorghum, pearl and finger millet in South Asia and Africa - Seed priming in wheat, barley, sorghum, pearl- and finger millet in South Asia and Africa

Low-cost boost for crops in poor soils - On-farm' seed priming to improve plant nutrition in low fertility soils

Seed priming makes good stands of maize the rule rather than the exception - Seed priming to improve drought resistance

Seed priming in mungbean and chickpea strengthens disease resistance - On-farm' seed priming to improve disease resistance in mungbean and chickpea

Priming gets rice off to a good start in upland Africa and Asia - Seed priming rice West Africa and Asia

Seed priming boosts legume crops in South Asia - Seed priming legumes in South Asia

Farmers want better wheat varieties but lack seed - Participatory varietal selection in wheat - improved varieties for Gujarat, India

Community Parliaments make voices heard and needs felt - inventory credit schemes (community parliaments)

Partnership-based innovation helps break bad habits - Principle for enabling partnership-based innovation

Access to knowledge can make change a reality - Policy advice and planning frameworks to help strengthen pro-poor institutional learning and change

Toolbox tailors extension to the needs of poor households and communities - Diversity Response Approach: Sensitising service providers to farmer diversity as exemplified by approaches to better crop storage

New information takes farmers - Together to Market - Market information tools: Combining radio and training to facilitate successful farmer group marketing

Information maps - a path to effective solutions - Knowledge management

Participatory learning has something for everyone - Maize Innovation Systems Opportunities (MISO): Improving access to quality information and products for maize innovation systems

Videos help cocoa farmers see the big picture - Cocoa ICPM W.Africa

Farmers take the lead in learning - Accelerated uptake and impact of CPP research outputs

Learning is made easy by new sweet potato guides and manuals - Improved learning on sweet potato management through farmer group activity

Successful strategies for promoting new farming technologies - Tools, methods and systems to promote and scale-up the adoption of integrated pest management and other improved farm species

Spreading the word - making stakeholders aware of new chickpea options - A policy and supporting strategy for the increased generation of wealth and enhanced food security by poor farmers in rain fed cereal systems of south Asia and Africa through the supplemental growing of high yield legumes

Finding better ways of disseminating research results - Communication strategy for E.African semi-arid systems

Building confidence to manage research data - Improving research throughout and effective use through capacity strengthening in data management and statistical applications

Capturing farmers demands and involving them in research - Methods for linking the supply of technology with the demand from smallholder farmers

Know-how boosts cottage industries in tropical fruit - Promoting selected tropical fruit trees through dissemination of information and improved livelihoods through the development of small-scale fruit processing enterprises in Africa

Creating a dialogue to influence policy - Empowering the rural poor to communicate with and influence government

Consensus-building tool brings participatory planning to the floodplain - Participatory Action Plan Development for NRM and rural development - utilising and building consensus

Multiple production systems boost pro-poor benefits from the floodplains - Better options for integrated floodplain management: uptake promtion in Bangladesh

How can we increase the impact and uptake of research - Scaling-up strategies for pilot research experiences - a comparative review

Teaching smallholders to combat soil erosion - Field methods to assess the extent and impact of land degradation in the context of local livelihoods

Getting everyone to agree in natural resources management - Analysing trade-offs for resilence in resource management

Policy reforms lead to improved livelihoods - Achieving alternative livelihood strategies

Why are research results not reaching farmers fields - Institutional scaling-up and uptake promotion of outputs from soil and water management research in east and central Africa

Strengthening local organisations gives farmers more say in local policy - Strengthening Social Capital for Improving Governance of Natural Resources in Highlands of Eastern Africa

Database provides link between rural groups and policy makers - Informing the policy process: Decentralisation and environmental democracy in Ghana

Participatory systems put farmers knowledge into research - Integration of participatory technology developed into research and extension

Advocacy gives the voiceless a voice - Developing and promoting mechanisms for the delivery of improved rural services

Communication for dissemination - Scaling-up through communication

Getting farmers involved - Incorporating local knowledge in participatory technology developed of soil and water management interventions in the middle hills of Nepal

From plough to plate - collaboration delivers results - Exploring market opportunities through a research, industry and user coalition: Sorghum-poultry feed

Farmer marketing organisations help reduce poverty - Supporting farmer organisations for poverty reducing market access

Better organisation helps farmers to access markets - Improving smallholder farmer market access and profitability through increased productivity, quality, organised storage and participation

Participation makes ethical trade work for the poor - Back to ethics: Enhancing African ethical trading bodies to export horticulture

More marketing choices mean better livelihoods for poor paddy growers - Improved paddy markets for small-scale producers in Bangladesh: An analytical framework

A new system helps smallholders keep pace with world markets - Agriculture to agri-business: Management systems for high value horticulture

Community enterprise does not have to be a burden - Managing food - COProM Management model for viable markets

Women stand to profit from a new look at indigenous vegetables - Improving the livelihoods of vegetable growersand processors through market promotion of fresh and processed indigenous vegetables

From mangos to markets - market information tools

New opportunities for cotton croppers in Sub-Saharan Africa - Cotton ICM technology dissemination using the commodity chain

A checklist for farmer-friendly information - Linking demand for agricultural information with its supply

Private sector serves horticultural industry in Kenya - Development of private sector service providers for the horticultural industry in Kenya

Credit and know-how boost farm incomes - Enhancing livelihoods and income through integrated land management and credit provision

Marketing for small-business success - Market orientation and value enhancment (MOVE) supporting sustainable livelihoods for the poor

Tackling peri-urban problems - Supporting innovation - West African Peri-urban Poverty Policy Platform (WAPPPP)

A better method of planning for city fringes - Participatory Action Planning and Implementation (PU - PAPI)

Helping themselves out of poverty - Community mobilisation for self sustaining development in Africa and Asia

Mobilizing city-edge communities for action - Participatory planning and implementation

Spotlighting development in peri-urban areas - Less poverty for rural to urban change

Successes in improving the livelihoods of the poor and extremely poor - Scaleable and sustainable community-level institutions that facilitate livelihood improvement for the poor and the extreme poor

New formulas for success are helping farmers to make vital choices - Gross margin analysis and marketing fact sheets for farmer groups and extension staff

Pesticides that come naturally - Optimising the indigenous use of pesticidial plants

New techniques help get rid of unwelcome guests - Impact of rodents on rural household food security, health and nutrition

Solar energy gives small farmers new arms against insect pests - Low cost and safe pest control for the storage of cowpea by smallholder farmers

Imported fungi help farmers defend themselves against invasive weeds - Sustainable management of Mikania micranthra in India, focussing on classical biological control

Bean farmers go with the information flow - Promotion of bean ICPM strategies

Farmers control bean root rot with a blend of science and indigenous knowledge - Bean root rot disease management

Science and partnership take the punch out of finger millet blast - Finger millet blast management in East Africa: Creating opportunities for improving production and utilisation through an innovation systems approach

Maize farmers strike back against Striga and stemborer - Increasing food security and improving livelihoods through the promotion of integrated pest and soil management in lowland maize systems Pase II

Insect visitors are made to feel unwelcome in banana crops - Managing the BXW pandemic in east and central Africa

Baits and lures get the upper hand on fruit flies - IPM of fruit flies in Asia and Africa

Winning the battle against cassava mosaic disease - Control of cassava mosaic disease

Perking up smallholder coffee production - ICPM for smallholder Arabica coffee in malawi

Pheromone traps help save cowpea - Pheromone traps as an aid to control Maruca vitrata

Effective rodent control techniques - Ecologically based rodent management technologies for rice-based systems and small scale rural farming villages

Virus-fighting tomatoes - Tomato leaf curl virus disease and whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, management

Weekly forecasts help prevent birds damaging crops - Medium and short-term spatio-temporal forecasting of likely breeding areas for the red-billed Quelea

Village forecasts combat armyworm plagues in eastern and southern Africa - Community based armyworm forecasting (CBAF)control in east and southern Africa

Low-cost natural spray kills African armyworm - Novel biological control for African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta) using low cost endemic armyworm nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV)

Strengthening registration of biological controls in Africa - Capacity building for biological pesticide registration for Africa

Beating tungro virus disease in rice - Improved pest disease management for irrigated rice systems

Forecasts prevent crop damage by migrant pests in southern Africa - ICOSAMP

Biological controls to combat root-knot nematodes - Biocontrol of root knot nematodes

Maize for food and forage in East Africa - Improved seasonal availability of forage by better IPM strategies especially of maize

Basket of remedies revives ailing Ugandan banana industry - Integrated pest management of banana

Safe biological pesticides for India and South Asia - Scaling up availability of safe biological pesticides for poor farmers in India and south Asia

Up-to-date manual of coffee pests and diseases - Promotion of current knowledge on pests of coffee in east Africa

Combating potato pests safely in Bolivia - IPM potato pests in Hilliside system Bolivia

Combating rice sheath blight in Bangladesh - Rice sheath blight complex

Helping small companies compete in biopesticide markets - Support to SME supplying pheromone control technologies AND promoting policy change for commercial production

Improving information on rice pests and diseases in Bangladesh - Managing rice pests in B'desh by improving extension service information management for policy and planning

Rat catching in South Africa - Ecologically based and sustainable rodent control strategies in south Africa

Trench warfare to combat crickets in southern Africa - Control of armoured bush cricket in southern Africa

Catch Brown Locusts before they hatch - Components of an improved Brown locust forecasting system for southern Africa

Off-the-shelf biocontrol for weeds in India - Developing a sustainable management strategy for Parthenium in India, focussing on biological control technologies

Weed pest no longer a bottleneck in raising rice-wheat productivity - Minimising the economic and sociological impact of Phalaris minor in rice/wheat ecosystems

Tissue culture removes obstacle to control of banana nematodes - Non chemical control of banana nematodes in E.Africa

Best practice bird control - Environmental impact assessment of Quelea bird control

Prevention is the best cure for banana viruses - Increasing yield and sustainability of banana production by small scale growers through use of improved crop management practices to control the spread and reduce the effect of banana virus disease

Beating rice hispa in Bangladesh - Ecology and management of rice hispa (Dicladispa armigera) in Bangladesh

Trapping coffee beetles with natural baits - Development of pheromones for management of coffee stemborer

New sorghums combat witchweed - Striga management in sorghum

Quick, accurate tests identify plant diseases - Validated molecular diagnostic methods for important bacterial and fungal plant pathogens

Keeping watch on agrochemicals - Strategy for the management of agrochemicals

Biotechnology helps engineer resistance to rice nematodes - Genetically engineered resistance to rice nematodes

Transgenic banana could feed millions - Genetically engineered resistance to banana nematodes

Genetically-engineered resistance to potato nematodes - Genetically engineered resistance to potato nematodes

Cost-effective breeding for disease resistance in pearl millet - Marker assisted breeding of disease resistant versions of farmer-preferred pearl millet hybrids

Millers bank on bambara processing techniques - Bambara processing technologies for enhanced rural livelihoods

What is new under the sun - Partnerships for poor fruit and vegetable farmers - Commercialisation of solar drying technologies for micro and small-scale rural enterprise development

Oiling the wheels of coconut processing - Improving small-scale extraction of coconut oil:

Innovation reduces inputs and drudgery for shea butter processors - Improved processing of shea nuts

Oiling the wheels of groundnut production - Promotion of crop residues for fodder

New designs for storage structures give farmers important options - Better grain stores for farmers and traders

Storage techniques boost food security over the long haul - Preserving grain quality in long-term storage

A well-known lifesaver finds new promise - Cultivars with improved storage root quality

Fossils bring insect control down to earth - Diatomaceous Earths: Providing safer options for smallholder grain production

Simple transport solutions cut drudgery and improve livelihoods - Building partnerships for sustainable rural transport development