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Using ICTs to Address Water Challenges in Uganda

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play an important role in helping communities prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change. Various projects can attest to the potential

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Recognizing Africa's climate change research

Through 46 research projects supported since 2006, the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program has investigated what it means for African countries and communities to adapt to climate change. However, these research results are not always...


News

IDRC in the News — February 2012

21/02/2012

IDRC President David Malone gave a talk, titled “Outsider’s Perspectives on Soft Power in Indian Foreign Policy,” at the International Centre Goa in Dona Paula, India. In a working paper on the topic published by the National University of...

Eight students receive awards to study climate change and water

10/01/2012

Eight students in Africa, Asia, and Canada have been selected to receive IDRC’s Climate Change and Water (CCW) 2011 Adaptation H2O graduate research awards. They were recommended on the basis of their innovative research relating to climate change...

Events

Highlight: Our World, Our Water: Dispatches from the Global Youth Assembly

27/07/2011

Clean water is essential to life and health, yet almost a billion people lack access to this basic necessity. Climate change, urbanization, as well as industrial and agricultural practices are all putting growing pressure on fresh water systems. In...

Highlight: Exhibit focused on novel ways of solving urban problems

01/10/2011

How can design address the complex challenges facing a growing number of urban poor around the world and help to build healthier cities? This question was addressed in the Design with the Other 90%: Cities exhibit, which ran from October 2011 to...

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play an important role in helping communities prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change. Various projects can attest to the potential

Latest Projects

Decisions concerning climate change adaptation are necessarily made by local and national governments, but households, community groups and private enterprises need to be informed so that they can mak

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The mangrove ecosystem of Tumbes plays a pivotal role in providing protection against tides, winds and storm surges, and habitat for a number of fish species. The native coastal communities of Tumbes

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This project aims to understand the security situation faced by vulnerable populations in the violence-affected communities in the city of Medellín, Colombia, from the perspective of those living with

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More than 700 million people depend on aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) for their livelihood. These are diverse farming systems that include a mix of cultivation, livestock-raising, aquaculture, fis

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Through 46 research projects supported since 2006, the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program has investigated what it means for African countries and communities to adapt to climate change. However, these research results are not always...

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Potatoes have played an integral role in Andean agriculture for thousands of years.   Since 1998, IDRC has supported research in Ecuador on the health impacts of pesticide use on potato farmers and their families. Researchers worked with farmers...

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Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, is the home of almost 2 million people. Many of the poorest live in unplanned and under-serviced slums. An IDRC-supported project used an ecohealth approach to development in 12 neighbourhoods struggling with...

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Africa, a new frontier for tobacco companies, is witnessing a smoking epidemic. These short videos provide an introduction to tobacco use in Africa, some of the successes in addressing the devastating effects of tobacco use, and the challenges to...

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Over the past 50 years, floods and drought have severely affected lives and livelihoods across the Western Argentinean Pampas, a vast plain of cropland and pasture. Climate change is expected to bring more frequent extreme weather events to the...
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