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 South Africa's Winning Tobacco Control Strategy
2001-09-21
Cigarette consumption has fallen for eight consecutive years in South Africa while the percentage of adult smokers in the country has dropped from 32% to 28%, thanks to some of the strictest tobacco control measures ever adopted by the government of a developing country. 
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 Food for the Soil: Rock Phosphate as Fertilizer
2001-09-07
If you're a subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa, you probably don't have much extra money for fertilizer. But fertilizer is what you need to enrich the phosphate-poor tropical soil that you till. Yet dotted like geological islands in a dryland sea are places where inorganic phosphate may be mined from old rock deposits.
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 Burkina Faso: Managing Conflict at the Village Handpump and Beyond
2001-06-29
Young men in Silmiougou, a village in central Burkina Faso, would like a fair chance at finding wives in nearby villages. But they have a big handicap that is unrelated to their own suitability as husbands: their village has only one handpump for 3,000 people. This fact makes women from outside Silmiougou dread the idea of marrying a man from there. They know their lives would be filled with the daily drudgery of spending hours fetching enough water to meet their family's needs.
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 Tapping into Community Resources in China
2001-06-22
In remote highland villages in Guizhou — one of China's poorest provinces — villagers have solved a problem that had existed for 200 years. Working with researchers from the Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with support from IDRC, they have secured a steady supply of water. They have also reforested land, transformed a wasteland into a peach orchard, and undertaken other productive initiatives by applying community-based natural resource management.
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 Rehabilitating the Baringo Drylands of Kenya
2001-06-15
A bull called Mwalimu helped save the lives of hundreds of cattle in Kenya's Baringo District during a recent drought. Mwalimu means "teacher" in Swahili and this bull taught other cattle to do something that does not come naturally to them — eat cactus. Two successive years of drought had so much reduced the amount of fodder available in Baringo that cattle were starving to death. So, when staff from the Rehabilitation of Arid Environments, a charitable trust organization, heard about a bull that was eating cactus, they bought him and took him around the district to show hungry cows that they, too, could eat cactus once the thorns were burned off.
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 Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises
2001-06-08
It is early 1998, on the outskirts of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. "People are dying like flies," says an understandably emotional American missionary running a refugee camp for four thousand Hutus. Asked by a reporter about a series of conflict resolution workshops being run by a British non-governmental organization, the missionary watches four more corpses as they are carried out of the makeshift shelter he has constructed. The missionary says, "I do not like to criticize other groups ... but I wish someone was giving me that sort of money."
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 Investigating the Impact of Agrarian Policies on Conflict and Peacebuilding
2001-05-18
When Jean Daudelin assembled a research team to examine the impact of agrarian policies on conflict or peace, he imagined that one of the results might be a kind of checklist — or similar diagnostic tool — to help international development agencies develop programs that would not exacerbate political strife. Working for Canada's North-South Institute, and funded by IDRC, Dr Daudelin wanted to take a fresh look at the linkage between public policy and conflict. He recruited seven researchers with extensive knowledge of specific, localized conflicts in Central America and Mexico, and asked them to test existing assumptions about which agrarian conditions and policies fuel disputes, and which ones help calm them.
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 Forecasting Water Flows in Pakistan's Indus River
2001-05-11
A Pakistan-Canada research partnership has led to the launch of a sophisticated forecasting system that promises to help Pakistani authorities accurately estimate how much water flows into the Indus River — the lifeline of one of the largest irrigation networks in the world. The water forecasting system could ultimately help Pakistan to optimize water allocation at a national level by deciding how much water is used for irrigation, industry, and domestic purposes.
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 Investigating the Impact of Pesticides on Potato Farmers in Ecuador
2001-04-27
Potato farmers in the province of Carchi in northern Ecuador suffer from decreased mental capacity caused by high exposure to chemical insecticides. This is lowering their productivity by impairing their ability to make good farming decisions. With funding from IDRC and other donors, the Ecosalud project aims to strengthen the capacity of local farm communities to handle pesticides safely and to modify their production methods.
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 How Thailand Took on the Transnational Tobacco Titans
2001-04-20
It began as a classic David-and-Goliath story, with a small and relatively poor country — Thailand — butting heads against wealthy multinational tobacco companies and the powerful US trade office that championed their cause. By the time it was over, Goliath's image had been badly battered, anti-tobacco forces in Thailand and internationally had been re-energized, and Thailand had won the right to impose some of the strictest tobacco controls in the world.
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 Material Gain: Bednets Treated with Insecticides Improve the Lives of Tanzanians
2001-04-06
Inside the factory of the Textile Manufacturers of Tanzania Limited in Dar-es-Salaam, the hum of 50 sewing machines is as insistent as the drone of insects. Tailors are stitching together blue, green, and white netting that has been woven on the factory's looms. The men and women are part of a 180-strong workforce that produces up to 700 mosquito nets each day, marketed under brand names such as Health Net and Sweet Dreams.
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 Staking a Claim in Cambodia's Highlands
2001-03-30
Long after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, rebels lurked in the jungles of Ratanakiri, a province in northeast Cambodia. Outsiders stayed away, which meant that the forest remained intact. But in the early 1990s, the rebels gradually gave up their arms and the logging trucks started to arrive. This has created serious problems, particularly for indigenous people, who rely on the forest for their livelihood. In the traditionally hierarchical society of Cambodia, these people had never spoken up for their rights — until they became involved in a community-based natural resource management project.
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 'Amal' as in 'Hope': An Argan Oil Cooperative is Changing Women's Lives
2001-03-16
My life has really changed. It used to be that I could never leave the house. Today, I am earning an income and can send my children to school. These are the words of a woman who has been given a new lease on life, thanks to an argan oil cooperative run exclusively by women in Tamanar, in the Essaouira region of Morocco. Here a group of 50 women has integrated itself into the economy by capitalizing on a piece of ancestral knowhow.
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 Investigating the Impact of Large Mines on Chilean Communities
2001-03-09
The face of Chile's mining map changed dramatically after the government introduced investment incentives in the 1980s, attracting a wave of foreign-owned companies to explore and develop previously undetected deposits. But the mining boom has raised some serious concerns among the people living next door to these projects. With funding from IDRC, a team of researchers recently conducted a study on the impact of three large mining projects on local communities.
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 Enhancing the Role of Traditional Leaders in African Governance
2001-03-02
In the mid-1970s, a young doctoral student named Donald Ray was studying rural settlement schemes in Zambia. "All of a sudden, one of the schemes ground to a halt when the local chief showed up and told them to stop. He controlled the land and had not been consulted." Several years later, while researching a book on Ghana, Dr Ray was struck by the power of chiefs in northern Ghana. During the December 31 revolution of 1981, "I saw examples where the grassroots revolutionary cadres were unable to overcome resistance from the chiefs."
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 Improving Natural Resource Management in Viet Nam's Hong Ha Commune
2001-02-23
An interdisciplinary research team of scientists and farmers is helping to defeat hunger and poverty in a poor mountain region of Viet Nam. During the Viet Nam War, the region was a frequent target of chemical defoliants and bombs, which destroyed much of its natural forest cover. Today, the once native vegetation has been replaced by invasive imperata grasses, which are difficult to remove when residents attempt agriculture or agroforestry.
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 Addressing Violence Against Palestinian Women
2000-06-23
A ground-breaking research project funded by IDRC shows that violence against women is common in the Gaza Strip, the impoverished coastal area between Israel and Egypt. The preliminary results are alarming: half of the women interviewed to date have been victims of violence.
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Reflections on Water: An Interview with Margaret Catley-Carlson 2005-08
In an effort to demystify the water "problem," IDRC Bulletin speaks with IDRC governor Margaret Catley-Carlson who has been working in the area of water for 20 years, most recently as Chair of the Global Water Partnership and member of the World Water Commission.
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