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The World Vegetable Center is working with tribal communities in India to encourage production of vegetable soybean
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How a challenge fund is helping Vietnamese farmers move their products up the value chain
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How a newly upgraded road is transforming rural village life in northern Tanzania
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How a new road built with British support is creating business opportunities and improved access to healthcare
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How UK aid is tackling malnutrition in the heart of Africa with Action Against Hunger
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On the 13-14 September the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) held a workshop at the University of Antwerp in Belgium on open development.
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After years of conflict, youth in northern Uganda receive vocational traning to improve their livelihoods
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British support helps rebuild schools and bridges in Pakistan Administered Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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How biochar - an innovative solution which improves soil and reduces pollution - is helping farmers in Vietnam
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How the UK's Rapid Response Facility is getting aid quickly to those in need
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DFID launch Development Research Uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa (DRUSSA) as the need for an African science news service increases.
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The genebank at AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center is the world’s most important public-domain source for tropical vegetable crop germplasm.
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The World Vegetable Center have developed tropical tomatoes with resistance to several whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses through “gene pyramiding”.
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How biofortified sweet potatoes are keeping pregnant women and young children healthy in Kenya
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How support groups in Mozambique are helping to break the cycle of malnutrition.
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Providing school children in Afghanistan with the nutrition they need
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New varieties of sweet potato help children grow up to be healthy in Uganda
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How community-based female health workers are preventing the deaths of mothers and babies
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DFID today threw its weight behind the Open Access movement by publishing its own Open and Enhanced Access Policy for the research that it funds.
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New bridges replace those destroyed either by the conflict in 2009 or the devastating floods in 2010
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How a midwifery school is inspiring a new generation of midwives
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From tending fields to tailoring - how UK aid and Mercy Corps are investing in Afghanistan's youth
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How women are transforming their lives with big business ideas
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How a British charity is helping communities recover from conflict
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How UK aid and the HALO Trust are helping farmers reclaim their fields in Afghanistan
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UK aid is working with CAFOD to bring clean, safe water to the world's poorest communities
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How UK aid is helping to improve hygiene and sanitation in Bangladesh
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How UK aid is helping to ensure the next generation is free of disease
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How UK aid has helped thousands of families return to their homes in Leogane
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How UK aid is rebuilding business and investment in Sierra Leone
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How UK aid is protecting some of the most vulnerable people in Kenya through cash transfers
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Thanks to the Vietnam Challenge Fund programme, supported by UK aid, farmer Cau is starting up her own business
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November 2011 sees another round of negotiations on climate change with the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) due to be held in Durban, South Africa.
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Last month the United Nations Population Fund announced that global population has passed 7 billion. This landmark brings the issue of population growth and its impact into sharp focus
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How UK aid is helping people get access to safe and nutritious food
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DFID-funded research helps generate new knowledge to improve access to primary and secondary education for disadvantaged children in poor countries
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New research has brought about significant environmental and economic improvements to Indonesia’s pulp and paper sector.
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How Save the Children are treating malnourishment thanks to UK aid
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UK aid is at work in Burma, supporting families and protecting livelihoods
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Government Economic Service (GES) student placements graduates talk about their experiences working on the scheme.
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How UK aid is helping Zambian women transform their lives with and plan for the future through family planning services
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Metre long guinea worms caused Sadia agonising pain. Find out how UK aid is helping eradicate the disease
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The Government of Zambia has established access and quality of education, especially for girls, as a national priority, even in hard economic times.
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The Gambia has worked directly to address gender disparity in education, particularly in poor rural communities.
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How UK aid is changing lives by getting more girls into school
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Nepal is on track for MDG 5. Childbirth is no longer the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age.
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Vietnam has successfully achieved MDG 7 Target 7C, according to the most recent World Health Organization/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Report (2010). Vietnam has also made progress towards its own more challenging sector targets.
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The GAVI Alliance, a global effort to bring new vaccines to the developing world, brings together diverse partners, leverages huge levels of resources, and saves millions of lives.
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An innovative health workers’ scheme has completely transformed the face of health care across rural Ethiopia.
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To improve nutrition in the developing world, new funding will be used to evaluate the evidence and carry out research on what works and what doesn’t.