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For 35 years, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has tackled food insecurity in challenging environments. But the challenge of improving agriculture, livelihoods, and food security in the Middle East has...
IDRC and the UK Department of International Development (DFID) convened an expert meeting in January 2012, hosted by the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
In preparation...
In the wake of a sharp spike in international food prices beginning in 2008, “the world seems to have rediscovered agriculture,” declared Martin Taylor, chair of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, at a recent two-day Ottawa...
Latin American grantees of the Think Tank Initiative gathered March 26-28 in Asunción, Paraguay, for a workshop on resource mobilization. The goal of the workshop was to strengthen the think tanks’ ability to sustain their operations over the long...
The University of Ghana’s Regional Institute for Population Studies will host the Climate Change and Population Conference on Africa July 1-4, 2012 in Accra, Ghana. The conference theme is “At the crossroads: Climate change, population, and Africa’s...
IDRC welcomed Carlos Pérez del Castillo, Chair of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), at two events on March 13. Pérez del Castillo was in Ottawa to talk about the role of scientific innovation in food production...
The IDRC-supported Municipal Services Project (MSP) launched two books in March 2012 exploring alternatives to the privatization of essential public services.
Launch events were held March 15 at the Alternative World Water Forum in Marseille...
Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices held the first consultation in a new series on challenges in program measurement and evaluation on March 13, 2012, in New Delhi. The consultation — titled Gender, Sexuality and Development: Whose Reality...
About 40 Canadian Parliamentarians, media, industry heads, and IDRC senior staff were up early Tuesday March 13 for the Centre’s Breakfast on the Hill event. Sponsored by Conservative MP, Dean Allison, the event featured Carlos Perez del Castillo...
Humanitarian emergencies are not simply brute facts that appeal directly to our emotions or our moral sensibilities. They are one of the important ways in which perceptions of human life, sympathy for suffering, and responses to social upheaval have...
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