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Acknowledgements

The `In the Field' team would like to thank all those around the world who have contributed to the programmes in this series of `In the Field'.

Most importantly, warm thanks are due to all those who agreed to be interviewed for the programmes in the series. Most are listed under the individual programme notes, but thanks go also to others who were interviewed but who are not named in the programmes.

We would also like to thank those who contributed in their professional capacity to the series:

The Buabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary, Ghana:
Paul Sarfo-Mensah, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and NRI

Tree Pods - A new way of feeding goats, India:
Dr NS Sharma, Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation (BAIF), Pune, India
Mr Vadher, BAIF
Mr Shyam Singh, BAIF
Czech Conroy, NRI

The need for agricultural land in the city, Ghana:
Ernestina Freduah Antoh, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Dr. Judith Pender, NRI
Martin Adam, NRI
Adrienne Martin, NRI

Stepping off the pesticides treadmill, India:
Dr C.D. Mayee, director of the Central Institute of Cotton Research, Nagpur, India
Dr. Keshav Kranthi, Central Institute of Cotton Research, Nagpur, India
Dr. Derek Russell, NRI

Vegetable gardens in the city, Zimbabwe:
Adrienne Martin, NRI
Nicolienne Oudwater, NRI

Farmers who don't just farm, Poland:
Dr. Roza Godula, University of Krakow, Poland
Henryk Pawelec, Kielce
Dr. Monica Janowski, NRI

Introducing Ethical Trade and
Different Ways of Viewing Ethical Trade, Ghana and UK:

Stephanie Gallat, NRI (based in Ghana)
Man-Kwun Chan, NRI
Mick Blowfield, NRI

Fighting the rat problem using new traps, Mozambique:
World Vision, Mozambique
Adrian Meyer, Rodent Consultant, The Acheta Partnership, UK
Dr. Steve Belmain, NRI

Alternatives to `slash and burn' agriculture, Bolivia:
Benjamin Carreño, CIAT (Centro de Investigación Agrícola Tropical) Santa Cruz
Emilio Chileno, CIAT
Adalberto Flores, CIAT
Dr. Morag Webb, consultant to NRI
Barry Pound, NRI

Trading cocoa fairly, Ecuador:
Jose Antonio Santos. Maquita Chuchchic Comercializando como Hermanos (MCCH)
Jorge Hidalgo, CARE
All staff of MCCH who assisted in making the programme
Valerie Nelson, NRI
Chris Collinson, NRI
Mick Blowfield, NRI

Training `barefoot vets' to treat village animals, Indonesia:
Cokro Leksmono, Deliveri Project, Indonesia
Dil Peeling, DFID

We would like to thank all of those, at the BBC and in-country, who did translations of original language interviews for use in voice-overs in the programmes.

We would also like to thank all of the studio managers at the BBC who assisted in the technical side of the making of the programmes, to the graphics design department at NRI who produced the flyer for the series, and to the web support staff at NRI, led by Alan Bourne, who have provided advice and assistance in the design of the web version of these notes.

Our thanks are due to staff of the Rural Livelihoods Department, DFID for their financial support and also for their supportive advice and assistance during the making of the programmes and the compiling of these notes; thanks go particularly to Dylan Winder. Thanks are also due to programme managers of the DFID Renewable Natural Resources Research Programmes, which funded most of the projects drawn upon and which provided some funding for the making of the programmes.


In The Field is a collaboration between the BBC World Service and the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich, supported by the Rural Livelihoods Department of the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID)

 

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