Features In_Focus: FIXING HEALTH SYSTEMS Don de Savigny, Harun Kasale, Conrad Mbuya, and Graham Reid In_Focus: HEALTH An Ecosystem Approach Jean Lebel In_Focus: SEEDS THAT GIVE Participatory Plant Breeding Ronnie Vernooy In_Focus: WATER Local-level Management David B. Brooks

IDRC Dossiers present special thematic collections on selected IDRC activities. Each tackles a pressing issue in sustainable international development. IDRC's experience is distilled and organized in such as way as to draw out important lessons, observations, and recommendations for decision-makers and policymakers.

• Fixing Health Systems
  Linking research, development, systems, and partnership to reduce mortality.

• Health: An Ecosystem Approach
  Exploring the link between the environment and human health.

• Seeds that Give: Participatory Plant Breeding
  Agricultural research, seed diversity, and the fight against genetic erosion.  

• Water: Local-Level Management
  Some of the most powerful responses to water scarcities have been mounted at the community or local level. These are presented in this special dossier on IDRC-supported research.

• Cultivating Peace: Conflict Over Natural Resources
  Conflict and collaboration in natural resource management.

• Information and Communication Technologies
  Using ICTs to bridge the digital divide between industrialized and developing countries.

• Ten Years after Rio
  Our efforts during the 10 years since the first World Summit on Sustainable Development.