Public-private partnerships in agriculture are rapidly gaining in importance. To understand this emerging trend, IDRC has been working with the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) to investigate how these partnerships work, and...
IDRC-funded researchers propose local urban agriculture as a solution to food insecurity in a recent paper published by the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies. Food insecurity in Arab countries is closely tied to...
Tunisia is helping to feed its growing cities by developing more efficient and sustainable agriculture that uses rainwater and recycled urban wastewater.
The article Optimising Use of Water for Urban Agriculture: Responding to the challenge of...
Short-term collaborations between Canadian and African researchers has generated compelling results on such pressing issues as maternal and child health, climate change impacts, and alternative energy sources. The Canada Africa Research Exchange...
Learning financial skills through involvement in an urban farming cooperative has improved the lives of women in Amman, Jordan. The article Developing Value Chains in Amman, Jordan describes how the cooperative has led to women gaining valuable...
The majority of India's population lives in water-stressed regions. Access to water is worsening in the face of population growth, increased demand, inefficient usage, overexploitation of groundwater, pollution, and climate change.
The India...
Canadian and Latin American researchers are jointly pursuing knowledge in a variety of disciplines, generating ideas and building international networks. For example, in Colombia, researchers from Simon Fraser University and the Centro Internacional...
Innovative ways of measuring the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation options are the subject of Better economics: supporting adaptation with stakeholder analysis, a recent briefing note from the International Institute for Environment...
Latin America is the most inequitable region of the world, and regional inequalities within it present a serious challenge to development, a recent report states.
"In Latin America, one’s place of birth or residence is not a minor issue...
Rural technological innovations can improve lives. This 5-minute video shows two cases of innovations that have spread far and wide. The interviews were filmed during an international meeting of innovators on November 8-10, 2011 in Lima, Peru...