USEFUL LINKS:

ARD(Agriculture and Rural Development department), World Bank

In collaboration with colleagues in the Sustainable Development Network and across the World Bank, the ARD works to reduce poverty through sustainable rural development. To this end, ARD provides analytical and advisory services to the Bank's regions on a wide range of agriculture and rural development topics.

IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations.

ILAC (Institutional Learning and Change Initiative)

The mission of the ILAC Initiative is to strengthen the capacity of collaborative programmes to promote pro-poor agricultural innovation and to ensure that research and development activities are managed more effectively to contribute to poverty reduction. The specific focus of ILAC is on those collaborative arrangements that target and actively engage poor farmers and other poor people.

KIT (Royal Tropical Institute), Netherlands

The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam is an independent centre of knowledge and expertise in the areas of international and intercultural cooperation, operating at the interface between theory and practice and between policy and implementation. The Institute offers a Rural Innovation Systems portal that provides access to free, full-text electronic documents on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS), both as an analytical concept and a development tool.

Research Into Use

The Research Into Use (RIU) programme is funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, the government department that manages Britain’s aid to developing countries. RIU is the first programme to come about under DFID's new Strategy for Research on Sustainable Agriculture (SRSA). It marks a shift in emphasis away from the generation of new knowledge to the ways in which knowledge is put to use.

STEPS Centre

The STEPS Centre is a new interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It aims to develop a new approach to understanding, action and communication on sustainability and development. By acknowledging the interactions between social, technological and environmental factors in diverse local settings it aims to create more sustainable, socially just and favourable conditions for the poor.