Publications for Food and Agriculture
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City dwellers have been growing their own food for millennia. Only since the mid-1990s, however, has the concept of urban agriculture (UA) been formally recognized as the subject of research and public policy. Canada’s International Development...
One of the biggest challenges in gender research, says Jemimah Njuki, is getting it wrong. Good intentions grounded in faulty research often leave women worse off than before. The Kenyan sociologist and gender specialist at the International...
Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with “biopiracy,” for example. As well, existing laws are usually...
In September 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya, IDRC hosted the policy symposium, Gendered Terrain: Women's Rights and Access to Land in Africa. At this symposium, researchers from across Africa shared their findings and engaged with policymakers. These 11...
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Land is an important source of security against poverty across the developing world, but, in many places, unequal rights to land put women at a disadvantage, perpetuates poverty, and entrenches gender...
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...
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...
Today’s agriculture is like a huge inverted pyramid. Globally, it rests on a precariously narrow base. Less than 3% of the 250 000 plant varieties available to agriculture are in use today. The top-down system of agricultural research, where farmers...
If you're a subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa, you probably don't have much extra money for fertilizer. But fertilizer is what you need to enrich the phosphate-poor tropical soil that you till. Phosphorus encourages early rooting, general...
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