The responses to the troubling news from China of a growing number of deaths from H7N9 are all too familiar. World public-health experts appear to be waiting for H7N9 to be declared a pandemic so they can launch their policies; scientists in the lab...
As the world observes World Water Day (March 22) and the International Year of Water Cooperation, IDRC asked researchers:How do we ensure fair and equitable access to water? The quotes below represent a range of views on this important issue. The...
Some people may know Project Seahorse as an organization that mobilized poor Filipino fishing communities to create dozens of marine protected areas in the central Philippines. These coastal refuges, protected by local people, have greatly improved...
Researchers at three South African universities — the University of the Free State, University of Cape Town, and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal — are developing a new approach to better inform water policy and management in the Western Cape...
Without losing its important place in the life of Andean villages, potato growing is changing in Ecuador. Agricultural modernization has altered small-scale, traditional, subsistence farming systems. Many farmers combine traditional practices with...
A new initiative in Central America takes aim at Chagas disease, one of the most serious public health challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than 10 million people in the region are infected with the disease, which is endemic in many...
Research under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program explored how to improve the ability of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable, including a large portfolio of research on adapting...
Since the mid-1990s, IDRC has pioneered and supported ground-breaking research that uses an ecosystem approach to health (ecohealth). Ecohealth researchers examine the relationship between the health of people, society, and the quality of their...
Kenyan farmers have relied on the indigenous weather prediction methods of the Nganyi rainmakers for generations. But extreme weather caused by climate change is affecting the natural signs that rainmakers use to predict weather. Many...
This book, besides being informative, is inspirational. The introductory chapters, the description of the research projects, and the closing chapters that analyze the scope and challenges of ecohealth all together present evidence that this is a...