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A collection of summaries describing key outputs from projects run by DFID's recently completed 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.
Audience: Traders and Consumers
Improved Techniques, Storage and Consumer Health
Improved Information and Tools
Market Chains and Improved Market Access
 
   
Improved Techniques, Storage and Consumer Health:
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Research Outputs
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Yam exporters cut losses and build profits - Improving the domestic and export marketing system for yams in Ghana CPH47
New tests keep poisons out of food - and off the table - The development of technologies for the control of mycotoxins in human and livestock feed CPH17
Fermentation helps meet growing urban demand for cassava products - Commercialisation of traditional processed cassava production to maximise benefits and sustain rural livelihoods CPH41
Sweet potato boosts health and incomes - Maximising the potential of fresh sweetpotato for farmer and trader income CPH40
Street food comes clean - Safer street and informally vended foods CPH38
Protecting consumer health in cities - Mobilising policy systems and stakeholder networks to improve food safety for the urban and peri-urban poor CPH06
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 CPH31
New designs for storage structures give farmers important options - Better grain stores for farmers and traders CPH23
Improved Information and Tools:
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Partnership-based innovation helps break bad habits - Principle for enabling partnership-based innovation CPH12
Access to knowledge can make change a reality - Policy advice and planning frameworks to help strengthen pro-poor institutional learning and change CPH13
Helping fishers make smarter decisions - Livelihood gains from informed aquaculture markets AFGP07
Changing global seafood trade standards harm poor fishers - Globalisation and seafood trade legislation: The effect of poverty in India PHF14
Weighing up costs and benefits in fish factories - Cleanse it, Ice it and Log it PHF13
Information maps - a path to effective solutions - Knowledge management CPH45
You name it, cassava can do it - Cassava as a commerical industrial commodity CPH21
Community enterprise does not have to be a burden - Managing food - COProM Management model for viable markets CPH22
Simple transport solutions cut drudgery and improve livelihoods - Building partnerships for sustainable rural transport development CPH27
New information takes farmers - Together to Market - Market information tools: Combining radio and training to facilitate successful farmer group marketing CPH26
Market Chains and Improved Market Access:
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Research Outputs
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Participation makes ethical trade work for the poor - Back to ethics: Enhancing African ethical trading bodies to export horticulture CPH16
Simple steps can strengthen marketing capacity - Participatory approaches to decentralising market access, coordination and competition policies in developing market systems CPH09
New formulas for success are helping farmers to make vital choices - Gross margin analysis and marketing fact sheets for farmer groups and extension staff CPH33
From mangos to markets - market information tools CPH37
Farmer marketing organisations help reduce poverty - Supporting farmer organisations for poverty reducing market access CPH08
From plough to plate - collaboration delivers results - Exploring market opportunities through a research, industry and user coalition: Sorghum-poultry feed CPH05
New market chain approach gives fast results - Participatory Market Chain Analysis (PMCA) CPH01
Information market place gives farmers access to the knowledge they need - A marketplace for agricultural information services (MPAIS) in Uganda CPH43
A new system helps smallholders keep pace with world markets - Agriculture to agri-business: Management systems for high value horticulture CPH20
Knowledge brings opportunities in emerging domestic fish markets - Aquaculture production reaching home markets AFGP08
A checklist for farmer-friendly information - Linking demand for agricultural information with its supply CPP40
Capturing farmers demands and involving them in research - Methods for linking the supply of technology with the demand from smallholder farmers CPP58
Private sector serves horticultural industry in Kenya - Development of private sector service providers for the horticultural industry in Kenya CPP64
Fair trade for forest products - Ethical Trade and Forest Livelihoods (ETFL) - helping producers and harvesters to access ethical markets in forest products FRP19
Opening the doors to markets and credit for poor fishers - A guide to the analysis of fish marketing systems using a combination of sub-sector analysis and the sustainable livelihoods approach PHF04
Improved marketing methods ensure smallholder access - Transforming agricultural marketing and improving access to finance through warehouse receipt systems CPH18
Huge potential for safe fish and vegetable production in urban areas - Local aquatic food for cities AFGP03