This study has begun to reveal the “footprint” of UK research in LMICs, its emphasis in different countries and different subjects, and its continuities and discontinuities over time. While this overall activity has distinctive features, it in no way describes a “strategy”. Rather it is the product of a wide number of separate, unlinked investments, often overlapping in countries and even institutions. What is needed now is to understand whether a more strategic, coordinated approach might improve achievement of UK objectives in agriculture research for development.
Building valuable research partnerships with LMICs is valuable to the UK, and the existing project-based and training activities from the investors illustrated in Figure 7 are all in themselves too short term to achieve this without some degree of coordination. This favours a more strategic approach. There could be some immediate benefits; less duplication of effort in areas of focus and less wastage of resources in areas where a few one-off investments will achieve neither research nor capacity building objectives. Therefore it is recommended that establishment of a coordinating mechanism involving UK investors, but linking with beneficiaries and other investors, with strong UK leadership, undertakes an assessment and then develops a strategic approach that better delivers UK objectives.
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Further Details of Databases Analysed 1 The Wellcome Trust
Information was provided by the Wellcome Trust as an Excel spreadsheet Animal Health in the Developing World: summary of awards 2004 - 2010
The overall aim was to fund research on livestock diseases that impact significantly on human health and wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries.
Proposals that addressed one or more of the following scientific areas in relation to livestock diseases of low- and middle-income countries were particularly encouraged:
livestock epidemiology and/or the natural history and dynamics of infection and disease in low- and middle-income countries (wildlife was only considered in the context of major reservoirs of human or livestock disease)
exploiting genomics (a) for drug and vaccine development, and (b) to understand the host protective immune response, disease resistance and pathogenesis
development of cheap, effective, feasible diagnostics, where possible, adapting currently available products
animal-to-animal transmission and animal-to-human transmission. Grants awarded
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) a serious and emerging plague of small ruminants in developing countries: Epidemiology, transmission, host range and pathogenicity of the virus in West Africa
£836,408 for 36 months
Professor Dirk U Pfeiffer, Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom Professor Thomas Barrett, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom Dr Adama Diallo, IAEA Laboratories, Austria
Dr Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Central Laboratory for Animal Diseases, Côte d’Ivoire Dr Oumou Sagare, Laboratoire Central Veterinaire, Mali
Characterisation of plant-based oral vaccines against peste des petits ruminants and development of a cost-effective delivery system
£247,774 awarded for 30 months
Dr Michael D Baron, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom Professor Melkote Subba Rao Shaila, Indian Institute of Science, India Dr Geraldine Taylor, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom Adapting recombinant anti-tick vaccines to livestock in Africa £1,111,792 awarded for 60 months
Professor Frans Jongejan, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Dr Jose de la Fuente, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain Professor Albert Neitz, University of Pretoria, South Africa Dr Anabella Gaspar, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Peter Willadsen, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
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Professor Mohamed Darghouth, École Nationale de Médecine Vétérinaire, Tunisia Dr Enoch Koney, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana
Development of effective live vaccines for prevention of anaplasmosis and babesiosis £1,068,974 awarded for 60 months
Professor Guy H Palmer, Washington State University, USA Dr Monica Florin-Christensen, INTA-Castelar, Argentina
Dr Juan Mosqueda, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico
Professor Anthony Barbet, University of Florida, USA Dr Marisa Farber, INTA-Castelar, Argentina
Dr Kelly Brayton, Washington State University, USA
Professor Wendy Brown, Washington State University, USA Dr Audrey Lau, Washington State University, USA
Professor Terry McElwain, Washington State University, USA
A genomics approach to understanding the immunopathology of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP): Improvement of current live vaccines and the development of next generation vaccines
£1,609,957 awarded for 60 months
Professor Declan J McKeever, Moredun Research Institute, United Kingdom Dr Evans Taracha, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya Dr Hezron Wesonga, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Nairobi
Dr Benedict Lema, Animal Diseases Research Institute, Tanzania Professor Joachim Frey, University of Bernm Switzerland
Professor David G E Smith, Moredun Research Institute/University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Professor David W Taylor, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Novel approaches and technologies to reduce the impact of nematode parasitism on the livelihoods of small-holder farmers of sheep and goats in Africa
£281,536 awarded for 42 months
Professor Peter J Waller, National Veterinary Institute, Sweden Dr David Smith, Moredun Research Institute, United Kingdom Professor Graham Medley, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Dr George Grey, ILRI, Kenya
Mr Adriano Francis Vatta, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI),South Africa Professor Jakobus Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Ernest Lacey, Microbial Screening Technologies, Sydney, Australia Dr Brian Perry, Consultant
African swine fever virus: Development of vaccines and epidemiological investigations
£2,200,000 awarded for 60 months
Professor Dirk U Pfeiffer, Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom Dr Linda Dixon, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom
Dr Wilna Vosloo, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa Dr Jose M Escribano, INIA-Madrid, Spain
Dr Maria Luisa Salas, Centro de Biología Molecular-Madrid, Spain
Dr Emmanuel Albina, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France
Dr Robert Parkhouse, Gulbenkian Institute for Science, Portugal Dr Haru Takamatsu, Institute of Animal Health, United Kingdom Dr Covadonga Alonso, INIA-Madid, Spain
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Dr Enrique Tabares, Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain Dr Javier Rodriguez, Centro de Biología Molecular-Madrid, Spain
Control of schistosomiasis in the lakes region of China by eliminating parasites in livestock: Combined treatment strategy employing praziquantel andadministration of an anti-schistosoma japonica plasmid DNA vaccine
£222,315 awarded for 12 months
Professor Donald A Harn, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Dr Zheng Feng, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China Professor Yinchang Zhu, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China
Optimisation and field testing of a practical vaccine against Taenia solium cysticercosis in pigs
£806,729 awarded for 60 months
Dr Marshall Lightowlers, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Armando E Gonzalez, Universidad de San Marcos, Peru Dr Stanny Geerts, Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Belgium Dr Ana Flisser Universidad Nacional Auton de Mexico, Mexico Professor Andre Zoli, University of Dschang, Cameroon Mr Charles Guaci, University of Melbourne, Australia
An integrated approach for the development of sustainable methods to control tropical theileriosis
£2,133,050 awarded for 60 months
Professor W Ivan Morrison, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Professor Dirk Dobbelaere, University of Bern, Switzerland
Professor Andrew Tait, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Professor Graham Medley, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Dr Evans Taracha, ILRI, Kenya
Dr Mohamed Darghouth, Ecole Nationale de Medecine Veterinaire, France Dr Brian Shiels, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Professor Declan McKeever, Moredun Research Institute, United Kingdom
Dr Elizabeth Glass, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Roslin Institute, United Kingdom
Dr Gordon Langsley, Institut Pasteur, France
Dr Tulin Karagenc, Adnan Menderes University, Turkey
Environmental changes in Africa and tsetse habitat fragmentation: Epidemiological consequences and perspectives for control
£356,555 awarded for 36 months
Dr Stephane de la Rocque, CIRAD-EMVT, France
Dr Peter Van Den Bossche, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium Professor David J Rogers, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Dr Issa Sibibe, Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l’Elevage en zone Subhumide (CIRDES), Burkina Faso
Dr Joseph Mubanga, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Zambia Dr Tshepo Matjila, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Sophie Thevenon, CIRDES, Burkina Faso Mr Idrissa Kabore, CIRDES, Burkina Faso Dr Jeremy Bouyer, CIRDES, Burkina Faso Bovine tuberculosis in the developing world £2,160,022 awarded for 60 months
Professor Douglas B Young, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Professor Glyn Hewinson, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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Dr Howard Engers, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ethiopia Dr Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Evans Taracha, ILRI, Kenya
Dr Jakob Zinsstag, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland
Dr Stephen Gordon, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, United Kingdom Dr Richard Bishop, ILRI, Kenya
Dr Abraham Aseffa, Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia Dr Martin Vordermeier, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, United Kingdom Dr Melese Getu, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia