The Enterprise, Trade and Food Management Group and its southern partners have, over the last 12 years, been a significant contributor to the Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) of the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID). This research work is summarised below in thematic areas with their associated cluster of research projects.
Commodity management and market access
- Improving the domestic and export marketing system for yams in Ghana
- Improving paddy markets for small-scale producers in Bangladesh
- Guide to the analysis of fish marketing
- Enhancing African ethical trading bodies in export horticulture
- Management systems for export horticulture
- Sustainable rural transport development
- Commercialization of solar drying technologies for SME development
- Making horticulture supply chains work for farmers and traders
- Combining radio and training to facilitate successful farmer group marketing
- Globalisation and seafood trade legislation: the effect on poverty in India
- Transforming agricultural marketing and improving access to finance through Warehouse Receipt Systems
- Indigenous vegetables and market promotion
Food Processing and market access
- Cassava as an industrial commodity
- Improved small-scale extraction of coconut oil
- Cassava starch: improved storage
- Commercialisation of traditional processed cassava products
- Improved processing of shea nuts
Innovation systems analysis
- Management model for accessing markets for agro-based industrial products
- Principles for enabling partnership-based innovation
Commodity storage and loss preventation
- Sensitising service providers to farmer diversity for better crop storage
- Preserving grain quality in long-term storage
- Better grain stores for farmers and traders
- Sweet potato –cultivar development for improved storage & processing
- Smallholder grain protection with diatomaceous earths
- Larger grain borer risk assessment and control in farm maize stores
- Low cost and safe pest control for smallholder storage of cowpea
- Fish loss assessment and reduction – field based methods
- Electronic tools for fish loss assessment and reduction
Food safety
