Andy FrostRIU deputy director
Directorate update
The RIU deputy director has the last word...
January 2013
The Research Into Use programme (RIU) came to a close on 31st December 2012.
The RIU was commissioned in 2006 to address ways to scale up successful innovations from agricultural research. The intention of RIU was to deliver the impact from the 10-year (1995 to 2005) DFID-funded suite of programmes on Renewable Natural Resources (RNRRS).
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The RIU deputy director has the last word...
January 2013
The Research Into Use programme (RIU) came to a close on 31st December 2012.
The RIU was commissioned in 2006 to address ways to scale up successful innovations from agricultural research. The intention of RIU was to deliver the impact from the 10-year (1995 to 2005) DFID-funded suite of programmes on Renewable Natural Resources (RNRRS).
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April 2013
Final Report: Research Into Use Programme - July 2006-December 2012
Research-Into-Use - An Independent Review (62 page report) or four-page executive summary now available in final publications sections of website.
July 2012
DFID back Shujaaz to deliver healthy eating campaign in Kenya
See what Shujaaz founder Rob Burnet had to say when he took part in Ted Talent Search in Nairobi
June 2012
FIPS-Africa self-employed agricultural advisors build their careers and transform village agriculture
April 2012
RIU learning outputs get journal publications
Tanzania premier attends RIU presentation on commercialization of indigenous poultry
Aqua Shops to feature on BBC Worldwide documentary
Shujaaz wins an Emmy
RIU-sponsored workshop advocates wider bio-pesticide use in West Africa
RIU Phase 1 news storiesNews and archive
Impact evaluation is intended to support accountability and learning; encourage strategic engagement by all stakeholders; and help justify continued investment in development by the UK government.
Private sector partnerships and entrepreneurship models
East Africa
- Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness (SOS-Uganda)
- NERICA rice and other farmer produced quality seed
- StopStriga and Gro-Plus
- Armyworm forecasting and control
- FIPS Resources for smallholder farmers
- ShujaazFM Comics, agriculture and entrepreneurs
The RIU programme aims to accumulate and evaluate evidence to shape and share lessons on how best to enable innovation in the agricultural sector so as to achieve social and economic gains in diverse developing country settings.
RIU shares emerging lessons and discussion papers which will form the basis of a series of journal articles.
Resources
