Research under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program explored how to improve the ability of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable, including a large portfolio of research on adapting...
Kenyan farmers have relied on the indigenous weather prediction methods of the Nganyi rainmakers for generations. But extreme weather caused by climate change is affecting the natural signs that rainmakers use to predict weather. Many...
This book, besides being informative, is inspirational. The introductory chapters, the description of the research projects, and the closing chapters that analyze the scope and challenges of ecohealth all together present evidence that this is a...
In Soukra, Tunisia, hundreds of low-income families live off the crops they grow. But in recent decades, that way of life has come under growing threat from urbanization and climate change. IDRC's Focus Cities Research Initiative financed a project...
In Kelurahan Penjaringan, Jakarta’s largest slum, thousands live without running water or waste disposal. With support from IDRC's Focus Cities Research Initiative, the American charity Mercy Corps worked with residents, local government...
The in_focus collection presents thematic mini-websites on selected IDRC activities. Each tackles a pressing issue in sustainable international development. IDRC's experience is distilled and organized in such as way as to draw out important lessons...
MultimediaCase studies: overview (slide show)Case StudiesCôte d'IvoireFrom Forests to Fields in Côte d'Ivoire
KenyaMalaria and Agriculture in Kenya
BrazilMercury Contamination in the Amazon
Ecuador (Pesticides)Preventing Pesticide Poisonings in...
An interdisciplinary research team of scientists and farmers is helping to defeat hunger and poverty in a poor mountain region of Viet Nam, which still displays scars from the Viet Nam War. Located on a branch of the former 'Ho Chi Minh Trail', a...
Some of the last remaining pristine mangrove forests in Southeast Asia are found in Cambodia: lush "rainforests by the sea" that are among the most biologically diverse wetlands on earth. Yet, in post-conflict Cambodia, these mangrove...
A Pakistan-Canada research partnership has led to the launch of a sophisticated forecasting system that promises to help Pakistani authorities accurately estimate how much water flows into the Indus River — the lifeline of one of the largest...