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Traditional rainmakers team up with meteorologists to share knowledge about tackling climate change
09 December 2009
A project in Kenya, supported by the IDRC/DFID-funded Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, is combining indigenous knowledge with modern science to provide the local community with information on climate change.
Working together to find solutions to violence in North-East India
09 November 2009
A workshop brought together academics, civil society organisations, media, government officials and people from affected areas to help restore peace after violence erupted between different communities in Assam.
Straight Talking to combat HIV among young African women
28 October 2009
A project in Uganda is helping young women, often disempowered in an environment of gender inequality, to talk about their lives with a view to developing a more gendered HIV prevention approach.
Democratizing Brazil's Indigenous Health System
12 October 2009
The health system attending to indigenous populations in Brazil is overhauled applying lessons learned from DFID-funded research
African cattle to be protected from killer disease
08 October 2009
A vaccine against East coast fever is being mass-produced to protect cattle and the livelihoods of African farmers
Relay programme brings local people into the research debate
22 September 2009
Research can be made accessible by translating articles into local languages
Helping vulnerable South African teenagers cope with the impact of AIDS
08 September 2009
Young people are being given the skills to improve their lives in the face of the problems associated with the AIDS pandemic in South Africa
How training can lift the poorest out of poverty
Private apprenticeships are helping the poor escape extreme poverty in Ghana
Improving equity in Indian health care
19 August 2009
Health care research in the Sunderbans will be used to prepare a master health plan for this area and show others how to address disadvantaged populations
"Give a child a birthday" - tracking age of school enrolment in Ghana
07 August 2009
Late enrolment in school in Ghana is linked to failure to complete education. CREATE is promoting awareness of the importance of enrolment at age 6 and progression in the appropriate grade for age.
Activism and aid combine to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa
28 July 2009
Activists and health workers combine to mobilize people living with HIV and AIDS and to provide the medicine and care that patients need
Providing insights into global issues: reporting agriculture online
17 July 2009
With over 200,000 readers around the world, New Agriculturist covers a wide range of stories and issues in agriculture and rural development
Maize Innovation Platform celebrates its first birthday in Rwanda's Eastern province
08 July 2009
The Maize Platform is one of four innovation platforms which the RIU programme established in Rwanda as a vehicle for strengthening an innovation approach to agriculture
Blazing a trail for forest rights in Nepal
04 June 2009
A DFID-funded Research into Use initiative is helping local communities in Nepal to live with potential climate change induced vulnerabilities
Agriculture on-air
21 May 2009
Recorded by Africans for Africans, the AGFAX radio service provides the latest information on agricultural and rural development to millions of listeners across Africa
A Small Dream
19 May 2009
How one girl's dream of going to school has inspired other young Muslim women
Reporting on research
06 May 2009
Journalists have been trained to write features on research for a wider audience
Understanding the Afghan Warlords
The work of the Crisis States Research Centre is helping our understanding of how the Afghan Warlords affect government state-building efforts
Kenyan shopkeepers join fight against malaria
17 April 2009
Retailers in Kenya have been trained in the identification and treatment of malaria
Does the media help or harm in potentially divisive elections?
09 April 2009
The role of the media in elections is becoming an important governance issue