Photo: Rachel Bezner-Kerr Ecohealth: Improving the health of people and the environment Research carried out using ecosystem approaches to human health, pioneered by IDRC in the 1990s, has significantly improved health and welfare around the world. Over the last 15 years, ecohealth has become a field of research in its own right, with increasing influence and impact in a growing number of countries.

Environmental economics: Saving lives, money, and ecosystems Agroforestry: From traditional practice to solid science   Urban agriculture: Rosario, Argentina reaps the benefits

Agroforestry: From traditional practice to solid science 2010-07
Three decades of work by the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre has turned a traditional practice — growing trees and shrubs alongside crops — into a science-based discipline. That science, agroforestry, is now recognized around the world for its potential to provide food, fodder, increase crop yields and incomes, protect watersheds, provide energy, prevent land degradation, and more.

Ecohealth: Improving the health of people and the environment 2010-07
Research carried out using ecosystem approaches to human health, pioneered by IDRC in the 1990s, has significantly improved health and welfare around the world.

Environmental economics: Saving lives, money, and ecosystems 2010-07
Environmental economics gives developing countries a unique tool to make development sustainable and to leapfrog over many of the mistakes that industrialized nations have made. IDRC has worked with researchers in developing countries to build this field of applied research, which provides decision-makers facing tough economic and environmental choices with vital evidence, analysis, and recommendations.

Urban agriculture: Rosario, Argentina reaps the benefits 2010-07
Thousands of families in the city of Rosario, Argentina, were able to feed themselves during the country’s recent economic crisis by growing their own food. Now more than 800 community gardens in the city feed some 40,000 people and produce surplus for sale.