Résultats de recherche

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face persistent rural poverty, deepening food insecurity, and declining natural resource base and associated ecosystems services.

This paper is an analytical comparison of promises made by Uganda’s different political parties in their manifestos (2011 – 2016) with regard to the measures proposed to address the agriculture sec

This issue focuses on encouragement of youth into farming activities, where new technologies, products, markets and business possibilities emerge regularly in the agricultural sector.

Integration of a minimal addition of organic and inorganic inputs on valued traditional crops with adequate rainfall under normal farming practices in semi arid lands is an option that may improve

In Kenya, smallholders are the main food producers and paradoxically, are also the most food insecure.

This synthesis report recognizes varied outputs from the AFS research projects presented during the side event and proposes a generic framework as well as specific directions for enhancing AFS rese

The presentation by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) focuses on pro-poor food security innovations.

The Government of Canada established the Development Innovation Fund – Health (DIF-H) in 2008 when it pledged $225 million over five years to support breakthrough research on critical global health

Les spécialistes et les théoriciens ont documenté les avantages de la participation des utilisateurs en évaluation et, de la même façon, la valeur dedonnées d’évaluation neutres et impartiales.

The Government of Canada’s investment in Development Innovation Fund – Health (DIF-H) has provided value for money. Investing in DIF-H remains relevant, and DIF-H has produced significant results.

The Development Innovation Fund in Health (DIF-H), through Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) explored the potential to use an outside-of-government delivery vehicle to foster development innovation whi

In 2003, the World Summit on the Information Society declared its challenge “to harness the potential of information and communication technology to promote the development goals of the Millennium

Despite exposure to poverty, violence, mental illness, marginalization due to race, ethnicity, ability, divorce or death of their parents, cultural dislocation, and other risks, research shows that

Objectives: We review the value of using visual data in a dialogue with youth, to reflect, explore and find language to better understand processes of resilience.

A spatial-temporal model is developed for modeling the impacts of simulated coastal zone storm surge and flooding, using a combined spatial mapping and system dynamics approach.

This two-page document provides the subject headings and topics for presentation by the IDRC at the International Community-University Research Alliance Program (ICURA) conference (2015).

Estimates of the range of sea-level change expected in the next 90 years (2010 to 2100) for five communities in Nunavut are derived from an assessment of published estimates of projected global sea

This project increases the preparedness of the community of Grande Riviere, Trinidad, by developing a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) model, to illustrate potential flooding areas associated

Double inequity prevails in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where countries that least benefited from greenhouse gas (GHG) unfairly experience the bulk of the effects from climate change, as

This paper reports on methodological innovations in an ecological investigation of protective processes in the experiences of youths in transition in eight locations around the globe.

Visitation to marine wildlife viewing tours has increased steadily in the last few decades.

The performance of the program was evaluated with respect to research, knowledge mobilization, and education that reflect core objectives of the International Community University Research Alliance

Given the growing emphasis in research and service provision on strengths rather than deficits, the focus on youth support in the South African Children’s Act of 2005 and the lack of educational, t

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) related to protected areas (PAs) originated in the 1980‟s in Zimbabwe, Africa, in the buffer zone communities of Africa‟s National Parks.