Rural Innovation Systems

GFRAS : Global forum for rural advisory services

| 2010-
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  • Publisher: Global forum for rural advisory services (GFRAS)
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  • Keywords: agricultural extension, co-operation between organizations, international co-operation, poverty alleviation, sustainable development
The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) provides advocacy and leadership on pluralistic, demand-driven rural advisory services with the goal of promoting sustainable growth and reducing poverty.

Fodder innovation project (FIP) : enhancing livelihoods of livestock dependent poor people through increasing use of fodder : [India and Nigeria]

| 2009-
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  • Publisher: ILRI India : with UNU-MERIT etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, animal feed, capacity building, poverty alleviation, india, nigeria
FIP looks at fodder scarcity from the perspective of capacity scarcity in relation to bringing about technical and other changes in fodder practices to enhance the livelihoods of livestock-dependant poor people.

GCARD blog

| 2009-
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  • Publisher: GFAR etc.]
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  • Keywords: agricultural research, poverty alleviation, agricultural development, institutional infrastructure, international co-operation, conferences
GCARD aims to develop a new global agricultural research system, driven by tangible and inclusive development outcomes and bringing together all those involved in agriculture research for development (AR4D).

CoS : Convergence of sciences

| 2009-
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  • Publisher: Convergence of sciences (CoS)
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  • Keywords: development strategies, innovations, food security, poverty alleviation, cocoa, oil palms, food security, water management, west africa, benin, ghana, mali
This programme will carry out inter-disciplinary policy and institutional experiments with a view to elaborate, apply and assess a development approach to sustainable rural poverty alleviation and food security, based on Innovation System (IS) thinking.

Research into use

| 2009-
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  • Publisher: Research into use (RIU)
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  • Keywords: agricultural research, development strategies, innovations, agricultural extension, technology transfer, small farms, poverty alleviation, east africa, west africa, southern africa, asia
Wikipedia article on DFID's Research Into Use Programme, providing details of its aims, outputs, target regions, guiding principles, management, timeframe, budget, and publications.
 

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This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS).