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BBSRC GCRF Data and Resources Award Two consecutive research grants to develop methodology for predicting and comparing immune responses to vaccination using high-throughput sequencing of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples from ongoing Tanzanian studies.  Predicting and monito The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Social, Economic and Environmental Drivers of Zoonoses in Tanzania (SEEDZ) Research Grant – interdisciplinary research looking into the drivers, risks and impacts of livestock zoonotic diseases in Tanzania. Will result in improved clinical awareness and diagnostic capacity, benefitting the livestock communities, as well as scien The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Impact Acceleration Account 9 activities, focusing on identifying diseases of animals in African nations and improving their resistance to disease.  Engagement with industry, policy and with the general public was done to raise awareness of breeding and other improvements that could The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Impact Acceleration Account 4 separate research activities incorporating industrial collaboration or international partnerships to generate/optimise high throughput data sequencing methods, set up computational storage infrastructure offering intuitive platforms, as well as develop The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Sustainable Crop Production Research for International Development (SCPRID) This project will address health problems caused by zinc deficiency in the Philippines and Bangladesh. It will develop improved management practices suitable for local farmers that subsist on rice grown in low zinc soils and rice varieties with increased zinc content in edible parts of the plant. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Enhancing crop diversity and ecosystem services to promote biological control of fall armyworm in smallholder cropping systems Smallholder farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to crop losses to pests because they generally cannot afford pesticides and as subsistence farmers, they depend directly on the crops for their food security. Fall armyworm has recently invaded and rapidly spread across large areas of Africa, where it has become a major threat to agriculture and sustainable food production. This invasion is a serious and growing threat to food security and livelihoods and already affects at least 400,000 ha causing estimated crop losses worth $3 billion a year.   Our project will employ a four-pronged attack on the fall armyworm, utilising the natural defence mechanisms of the crop and companion plants. Firstly, we will assess the natural resistance levels of the maize millet and sorghum crops available to the farmers to determine which varieties would be most robust against the fall armyworm. We will then attempt to drive pests away from the main crop using a repellent intercrop (push), whilst attracting them to alternative locations with trap plants (pull). This technique is known as a "Push-Pull" companion cropping system and is used currently, successfully, against stemborer pests. Finally, we will attempt to utilise the defence mechanism of other companion plants to bring in local predators of the crop pet. These 'early herbivore varieties' are able to detect insect eggs that have been laid on them and emit odours to attract the natural enemies of the pests to the area where the crop is being cultivated. This novel design of pest management based on the four strategies of resist, expel, trap and kill should provide a novel cropping system which can withstand attack by fall army worm and other major pests.  Design of such a system requires a detailed understanding of the predators and parasites that are the key natural enemies of the invasive fall armyworm in Kenya. Therefore, a major part of this project will be to understand the current pest and predator relationship where the crops are being grown. Once determined, we will be able to test how such companion cropping and early alert crops could mitigate crop losses to the fall army worm using crops that are readily available to the farmers in Kenya. Such a system could only be generated through close partnership with the local farmers. We will co-design solutions with them so that that we can be assured from the onset that the novel cropping system that is created is not just appropriate for their requirements but can be feasibly implemented with the resources available to them. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Impact Acceleration Account extension awards 2 activities focussing on sharing good practice around ethical issues relevant to health research in developing countries and knowledge exchange around infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance in a DAC-list country. Bringing together UK researcher The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Impact Acceleration Account 9 primarily workshop-led activities bringing together epidemiologist, virologists, entomologists, evolutionary and theoretical biologists from DAC-listed African, Asian and South American partner countries (e.g. Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico) to establish animal disease research networks, restrict devastating spread of pest diseases, secure the future of the banana trade in Latin America and inform strategic policy planning. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Development of rationally designed live-attenuated lumpy skin disease vaccines Research Grant- investigates the exchange of genetic material in trypanosomes, a major livestock pathogen. Understanding limitations to the spread of harmful genes in a parasite population will benefit livestock farmers and governmental bodies in Sub-Saha The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Impact Acceleration Account extension awards 8 activities, some developing capacity by supporting collaboration and travel between DAC listed countries in the area of animal diseases.  Others calculate the economic and social impact of disease.  There is a strong focus on comparing animals and disea The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Data and Resources Extension Award Funding to improve economically important food, feed and oil crops in developing countries (focus on India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda). The UK will provide training and share genomic data to enable improved breeding of disease resistant and more productive plant varieties to benefit the national economies. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Exploitation of interspecific biodiversity for wheat improvement Research grant to exploit the genetic variation of wild and cultivated relatives of wheat to ultimately develop superior high yielding Indian wheat varieties, which are adapted to climate change and sustainable, agricultural friendly farming. Benefits glo The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Impact Acceleration Account 11 activities focussing on fostering new collaborations and building capacity in several DAC-list countries to address developing world challenges around health. Bringing together UK researchers with academics from DAC-list countries and providing trainin The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Impact Acceleration Account extension awards 4 projects aiming to establish India-Africa-UK innovation hubs of best practice in animal health and crop disease. Collaborations facilitated knowledge exchange for the purposes of setting priorities, transferring technology, building capacities, and developing strategic frameworks, GCRF-IAA-funded databases, or genotyping/sequencing technologies.

(1)  Unravelling the diversity and functional significance of the oil palm microbiome benefitting Malaysia and Indonesia
(2) Accelerating impact of best practice for treatment of footrot in sheep in India
(3) The neglected staple – exploiting germplasm diversity in orphan Enset  and banana genomics to identify resistance to important banana diseases benefitting India nad Ethiopia
(4) Establishing an India-Africa-UK innovation hub for seed and root health in brassica and bean crops benefitting India, Kenya and Uganda The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
A framework for sustainable aquaculture within peri-urban green infrastructures protecting the Gulf of Thailand from eutrophication Research translation grant to engage stakeholders in critical analysis of water policies and innovative aquaculture practices. Modelling will predict impact of wastewater management on aquaculture productivity and pollution. Small scale farmers in the Ban The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Agri-tech Catalyst Seeding Award - JIC The primary outcome of this award is the adoption of relevant agricultural and food system innovations by farmers and other stakeholders in target countries in Africa. Benefiting residents in rural communities in Ethiopia and Morocco. 

Secondary outcomes include increased and improved understanding amongst UK businesses of the needs and opportunities in African countries; and increased engagement with African countries by UK businesses, including successful collaborations and lasting partnerships post-project.

The Seeding Award funded four research projects which will support rural farmers by contributing to improved yields, tackling plant disease, improving food safety, and resilience to climate-change: 

1) Extrapolation of UK research findings on wheat to the African orphan crop, teff. Ethiopia's second “Growth and Transformation Plan” recognises the importance of agricultural productivity increases to economic development. This project supports rural farmers by contributing to improved yield of an Ethiopian orphan crop, teff, upon which many farmers' livelihoods depend.

2) Demonstrating the potential of MARPLE technology in-country and on-farm. This project focused on the deployment of the MARPLE diagnostics system in Ethiopia to rapidly type strains of the wheat yellow rust pathogen in farmers' fields in near real-time. Wheat yellow rust can cause severe losses and plagues wheat production in Ethiopia.

3) Improving understanding of the feasibility and acceptability of new varieties of the African orphan crop, grass pea. Farmers in Ethiopia will benefit from being able to grow improved varieties of grass pea which are safe for human consumption. Ethiopia is frequently afflicted by droughts and dry spells. Grass pea is extremely drought tolerant and survives when other crops fail. However, traditional varieties are poisonous and cause paralysis of the lower limbs when eaten in large quantities, which happens when grass pea is one of the last things to eat. The new varieties are drought tolerant and completely safe to eat. 

4) Extrapolation of UK research findings on pea to the African crop chickpea. At ICARDA, Morocco, there is a major focus on breeding chickpea crops, that are high-yielding and well-adapted to local climates. Translation of genetic knowledge gained from studies on pea will allow new varieties of chickpea with superior seed quality traits to be bred.

SDGs: 2, 8, 9 The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Impact Acceleration Account 2 activities, based in South Asia and West Africa, examined the social and economic influences and impacts of animal disease.  In particular the actions taken by farmers and other stakeholders are considered, the reasons why they take these actions, and t The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Data and Resources Extension Award Funding to improve livestock animals of small-holding farmers in Western and Southern Africa. The work will examine the genetic mechanisms underlying the resistance of African cattle and ruminant species to infectious diseases. The outcomes will lead to i The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
IWYP Call 2: Rooty-A root ideotype toolbox to support improved wheat yields The overarching goal of the International Wheat Yield Programme is to increase wheat grain yields by 50% in the next 20 years by targeting increases in genetic potential, leading to increased food security in DAC-listed countries. This project focusses on the roots of wheat plants in Mexico. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Data and Resources Award 3 research grants to develop biological and informatics resources for academics working towards improving crop and ruminant productivity and sustainability in several DAC-listed countries.  Focus on developing resources specifically tailored to new or loc The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Impact Acceleration Account extension awards Activities building on work improving understanding of results and impacts of existing research, enabling the development of new protocols and projects.   Supported by workshops and meetings in a number of DAC-list countries building strategies and standa The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
BBSRC GCRF Impact Acceleration Account extension awards 4 activities, focused on determining the current state of food production and nutritional quality in African nations and how best to improve these areas.  This was achieved through networking and workshops, with both academic and policy stakeholders. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Maximizing the potential for sustainable and durable resistance to the wheat yellow rust pathogen Research grant with the long-term objective of improving wheat genetic resistance by understanding the fungal pathogen which causes wheat yellow rust - a major threat to global food security which reduces yield and quality of wheat production. Benefits pr The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF Impact Acceleration Account 7 activities focussing on fostering new collaborations to address developing world challenges around agriculture and health and well-being. Increasing capacity in DAC-list countries through training academics and developing new international networks enga The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.