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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Potatoes have played an integral role in Andean agriculture for thousands of years.
Since 1998, IDRC has supported research in Ecuador on the health impacts of pesticide use on potato farmers and their families. Researchers worked with farmers...