Climate change represents a significant threat to human health, biodiversity, and the sustained eradication of poverty.
Networking technologies are now firmly embedded in the core of many economic, social, and political activities around the world.
Over the last decade, IDRC has supported several capacity building efforts in the field of climate change in Africa.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to alter our world and to advance human development, with dramatic implications across every sector of society.
Africa is increasingly becoming a hotbed of innovation. Between a growing number of tech hubs, a burgeoning maker’s movement, and even increasingly connected Indigenous communities, the seed of innovation in Africa has been planted.
Increasing resilience to climate change in West Africa is integral to enhancing food security. This calls for more sustainably and efficiently managing water resources for agriculture.
The goal of this project is to increase the climate change resilience of farmers in the Sahel through the sustainable and optimized management of catch basins for runoff water.
Heartwater and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCCP) are two diseases that constitute major threats to small ruminant (grazing animals such as goats and sheep) production in developing countries, notably in Africa.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has become the major international body searching for ways of building international climate agreements between developing and developed countries.
Large volumes of complex and variable data, often called big data, promise to improve government service delivery, complement official statistics, and facilitate development in sectors such as health, urban development, transportation, and humanit