Solutions

Traceability

Apricot Products, Pakistan

Integrated systems for tracking, inter alia:

v      supplier groups and farmers

v      raw materials

v      production input-to-output

v      HACCP and quality assurance

v      exports

v      payments

Dried Fruit & Vegetable Products, Uganda

Integrated systems for tracking, inter alia:

v      supplier groups and farmers

v      raw materials

v      production input-to-output

v      HACCP and quality assurance

v      exports

v      payments

Snack Bars, Dried Tropical Fruits, Dried Nuts, Fairtrade and Organic Products, UK   

Integrated systems for tracking, inter alia:

v      raw materials from source to factory

v      production from RM to finished products

v      HACCP, quality control, quality assurance

v      procedures and accreditations including BRC, supermarkets, organic, FLO fairtrade

v      personnel records and training

v      buyers requirements

v      consumer issues.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Voucher for Work Programme Management System, Uganda

Integrated systems for monitoring, evaluating and reporting, inter alia:

v      household survey data

v      farming assets and production

v      'voucher for work' usage

v      stockists data

v      project progress and performances

v      livelihood changes.

Documentation

Research into Use Programme (CD-ROM and Web site (being created))

   
Searchable database systems giving detailed information on key outputs from the projects run by DFID’s recently completed 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) Programmes.  It gathers together proven-to-work technologies, practices and policies that can improve livelihoods in resource-poor farming communities.  The 10 programmes investigated five major strategic areas: 

     v      crops
     v      livestock
     v      forestry
     v      fisheries
     v      natural resources management.

Crop Post-Harvest Compendium (CD-ROM)

 
Compendium information concerning the management by NRIL of the operation and experiences gained in the DFID Crop Post-Harvest Programme.  The CPHP began in 1995 and ended in 2006. During that period it commissioned some 155 research projects.  These addressed post-harvest constraints and opportunities identified in national agricultural research strategies and through participatory needs assessments.  The projects developed and disseminated a wide range of technologies, protocols, strategies and policy recommendations and represented an investment of £24 million across five livelihood themes: market access; processing; storage; food safety; and institutional arrangements for technical innovation.  The CPHP has produced over 1,880 dissemination outputs since 1995. Of these, 274 were published in peer reviewed publications.