Partnerships, policy, empowerment

A major focus of RIU's work is looking at new and improved approaches to partnerships, policy, empowerment.

The RIU experiment includes looking at innovative ways of enabling crop research to be put into use. In each of the RIU programme sections there is a description of how this is being done.

RIU Africa Country Programmes
RIU's flagship Africa Country Programmes address partnerships, policy, empowerment through their Innovation Platforms:

• National Innovation Coalition - Malawi
• Platform champions - Malawi
• Farmer empowerment - Malawi
• National Innovation Coalition - Rwanda
• Platform champions - Rwanda
• Farmer empowerment - Rwanda
• National Innovation Coalition - Sierra Leone
• National Innovation Coalition - Zambia

RIU Asia programme
Public-private partnership-led innovation is a key element in Theme 1 and Theme 3 of the Asia programme. .

Best Bets
Several RIU Best Bets are working on partnerships, policy and empowerment projects:

• ShujaazFM
• FIPS: Resources for smallholder farmers
• armyworm controls
• StopStriga
• Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness
• NERICA rice
• Bio-pesticide registration for fruit and cocoa growers

Commissioned work
RIU supportsCommercialisation for Agriculture Sector Development, a project that explores new busines models with the aim of building commercially sustainable businesses. RIU has invested in African parliamentary support for agriculture to help to create an environment more conducive to evidence-based agricultural policy.

RNRRS legacy
DFID's Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) resulted in a series of project research reports which may be interrogated in these ways:

BROWSE Research abstracts under topic areas Using the original RIU topic areas listed in the left-hand menu. Natural Resources Knowledge NRK research outputs are the results of DFID's 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS).

SEARCH This website... The search box in the top right-hand corner of this page offers standard Google search across all materials developed by RIU and significant work from the 10 feeder projects over 10 years as part of the RNRRS. DFID's Research for Development (R4D) database External resource - opens in new window.