RIU aims to encourage partners in both the developed and developing worlds to invest more in their communication efforts. These Policy Briefs were produced to illustrate how complex subjects can be explained briefly and simply to busy infomediaries and policy makers/shapers. 

The series showcases new technologies, policies and approaches and demonstrates the importance of investing in high-quality scientific communication and knowledge management. Only in this way will useful technologies be widely adopted, helping the people that they were intended to help and contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Policy Brief 1: Netting the benefits: the power of co-managing small fisheries (PDF 107 KB)
Policy Brief 2: Future health: sustainable management of Africa's medicinal plants (PDF 115 KB)
Policy Brief 3: Forests, flows and water harvesting: replacing myths in watershed management (PDF 107 KB)
Policy Brief 4: Improving farmers' access to quality seed (PDF 117 KB)
Policy Brief 5: Village forecasting of armyworm outbreaks saves crops (PDF 117 KB)
Policy Brief 6: Credit for success: seed-yam production systems (PDF 115 KB)
Policy Brief 7: Fighting storage insect pests in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF 119 KB)
Policy Brief 8: Speeding dramatic change in rice fallows: low-input pulses where nothing grew before (PDF 107 KB)
Policy Brief 9: Simple and successful: new seed-priming techniques boost farmers' yields (PDF 116 KB)
Policy Brief 10: Information and knowledge service markets: promoting rural innovation (PDF 291 KB)