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Agriculture and Environment
Where agriculture, development, and environmental sustainability meet

Food, water, and a healthy environment are essential to human well-being. They are also building blocks for more sustainable and equitable development. But these resources are threatened around the world—more so in developing countries.

IDRC’s Agriculture and Environment program recognizes that the key to providing these essentials is to increase agricultural productivity and food and water security, while ensuring environmental sustainability. We support research that fosters sound environmental management policies and long-term economic development that benefits local communities.

Agriculture and Food Security

Food demand is expected to double by 2050. We support research that will help meet this growing need. The focus: helping small-scale farmers in developing countries increase their production of healthy food, and get higher returns for their...

Canadian International Food Security Research Fund

Food security is a complex issue facing one billion undernourished people around the world. Through the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, IDRC and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) work together to support...

Climate Change and Water

Climate change is affecting both water availability and quality. We support research to help the world’s most vulnerable people adapt to the water-related impacts of climate change, such as droughts, floods, landslides, and rising sea levels.

Ecosystems and Human Health

The world’s poor often live in degraded ecosystems that are both unproductive and harmful to health. Climate change, expanding agriculture, and increased industrialization are adding to the risk. We fund research in developing countries that tackles...

Environmental Economics

Attempts to address environmental problems in developing countries typically face cost constraints and other obstacles. We support regional networks that strengthen local capacity for the economic analysis of environmental problems, so that...

Latest Projects

The emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases affecting Brazil today result from complex interactions between natural and human systems. Zoonotic diseases such as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, rabie

Latest Projects

Climate change poses a significant threat to agrarian societies in tropical regions. In Punjab, which produces more than half of India's annual food grain production, there is rising uncertainty in th

Latest Projects

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play an important role in helping communities prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change. Various projects can attest to the potential

Latest Projects

The Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012) will take place 12-15 March 2012 at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in At

Latest Projects

This grant will support a program of fellowships and workshops on the link between security, organized crime, drugs and democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The program is expected to h

Latest Results

Peru is estimated to be the third most vulnerable country to climate change impacts after Honduras and Bangladesh. Effects are already evident in the Peruvian capital, Lima, as shown in this report, written by one of IDRC's Focus City research...

Latest Results

IDRC-supported research led by Women in Cities International with local partner Jagori has helped women in New Delhi’s slum resettlements realize their rights and demand better and safer services. In New Delhi and many other parts of the world...

Latest Results

Relatively simple renewable energy technologies can improve water and energy efficiency in Mexico’s water-stressed areas, says a report from the Clean Energy Incubator, University of Texas at Austin. Case studies from Mexico City, Southern Mexico...

Latest Results

This report from the University of Cape Town’s Energy Research Centre examines how renewable energy and energy mini-grids can power water services in drought-prone rural areas in five Southern African countries: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa...

Latest Results

This report from Argentina’s Fundación Bariloche shows how solar and wind power are being used to pump well water and power irrigation systems in water-scarce northern Patagonia.These technological advances can improve agricultural water supply, but...
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