Over the last decade, IDRC has supported several capacity building efforts in the field of climate change in Africa.
The overall objective of this research project is to sustainably increase the resilience of cocoa cooperatives and member families dealing with the impact of climate change in Côte d’Ivoire.
Recent outbreaks of the highly infectious and dangerous Ebola virus in West and Central Africa underscore the importance of rapid diagnostics and surveillance infrastructure, evidence-driven health communications and community engagement activitie
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to alter our world and to advance human development, with dramatic implications across every sector of society.
IDRC congratulates Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Jessica Nosizwe Paula Rose Thorn, and N’Datchoh Evelyne Touré. Each of these outstanding African mathematical scientists will receive up to CA$39,000 to conduct research in an African host institution.
As agriculture becomes more strategically important in the world, large-scale land acquisition - or "land grabbing" - is a growing concern for West Africa.
It is obvious that in many African countries, no linkages are being made between health policy and environment policy.
In West and North Africa, climate variability is increasingly influencing those aspects of human health that are affected by water quantity and water quality.