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The launch of a second phase of project funding under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, a joint IDRC–Canadian International Development Agency initiative, was featured in a number of media outlets:
The Toronto Star and...
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation and MP for Newmarket-Aurora, Lois Brown, announced today that Canada will invest an additional $62.5 million to make food more secure and nutritious in developing countries through...
IDRC’s Ibrahim Daibes attended a meeting to discuss ways of boosting research for health in the Middle East. Daibes expressed the need for an exciting big idea; “This is necessary not only, or primarily, to allure donors, but to have a sharp vision...
Isidore Yolou, a doctoral student in agronomy at the Université de Parakou in Bénin, has been awarded the 2012 Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship. Isidore will carry out research on the use of organic waste in vegetable cropping in urban and...
An IDRC project designed to supply the science needed to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition in Guatemala was launched by Canada’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (the Americas), the Honourable Diane Albonczy, in early December. The...
A three-year IDRC project to make food more secure and nutritious in Guatemala ─ a country with one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world ─ was launched in Guatemala on December 5. Food Insecurity and Under-Nutrition in Guatemala...
Jean Lebel, IDRC’s Vice-President, Programs, delivered the opening public lecture on the eve of the fifth McGill Conference on Global Food Security.
Lebel’s lecture, “What goes up must come down - price volatility in the 21st century...
Tanya Springer was awarded the 2012 Norman Bethune Award for Excellence in International Health Reporting by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). Springer is a former IDRC journalism awardee.
Springer’s documentary "Of Mothers and...
Daniel Hillel, who pioneered an innovative way of bringing water to crops in arid and dry-land regions, was named the winner of the 2012 World Food Prize. The announcement was made in Washington where US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described...
Understanding the linkages between agriculture, nutrition, and health is the goal of a new research program launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 2012. The Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health...
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