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Lasting results

IDRC-funded researchers share a common purpose: to explore the root causes of poverty and hunger in the developing world. And their work is yielding results. From making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Africa to improving agro-pastoralist livelihoods in China and managing aquatic resources in the Amazon, they are searching for solutions.

Below are some of the results of this work—research reports, journal articles, policy briefs, videos, and more.

Meet two rural innovators

Rural technological innovations can improve lives. This 5-minute video shows two cases of innovations that have spread far and wide. The interviews were filmed during an international meeting of innovators on November 8-10, 2011 in Lima, Peru...

Innovations can change lives in rural Latin America

Innovations stemming from the imaginative combination of local knowledge and science can stimulate development in impoverished rural settings in Latin America. Yet, their impact is often localized and little is known about these innovations. For...

External Review and Impact Assessment of the African Highlands Initiative (AHI)

It is widely acknowledged that INRM is a means of achieving the CGIAR’s multiple goals of food security, poverty alleviation, and protection of the natural environment. The CGIAR has defined INRM as "a way of doing development-oriented research...

Case Studies on Africa and the Middle East

These case studies illustrate some of the work IDRC's Rural Poverty and Environment program has supported in Africa and the Middle East. Topics covered include the African Highland Initiative; transboundary water research in the Middle East; Isang...