DFID’s Research Into Use Programme has just come up with a crop of policy briefs on agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Several of them have agrobiodiversity relevance, if not themes.
- Policy Brief 1: Netting the benefits: the power of co-managing small fisheries (PDF 107 KB)
- Policy Brief 2: Future health: sustainable management of Africa’s medicinal plants (PDF 115 KB)
- Policy Brief 3: Forests, flows and water harvesting: replacing myths in watershed management (PDF 107 KB)
- Policy Brief 4: Improving farmers’ access to quality seed (PDF 117 KB)
- Policy Brief 5: Village forecasting of armyworm outbreaks saves crops (PDF 117 KB)
- Policy Brief 6: Credit for success: seed-yam production systems (PDF 115 KB)
- Policy Brief 7: Fighting storage insect pests in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF 119 KB)
- Policy Brief 8: Speeding dramatic change in rice fallows: low-input pulses where nothing grew before (PDF 107 KB)
- Policy Brief 9: Simple and successful: new seed-priming techniques boost farmers’ yields (PDF 116 KB)
- Policy Brief 10: Information and knowledge service markets: promoting rural innovation (PDF 291 KB)
Browsing RIU’s publications list, I was also struck by its Lessons from Pro-Poor Seed Systems in East Africa and Lessons from Plant Breeder and Farmer Partnerships.