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IDRC supports researchers from developing countries who are finding innovative, lasting solutions to local problems. We share the impacts of this groundbreaking research through print and free online publications, including books co-published by IDRC and presses around the world. We also publish articles and newsletters, including the IDRC Bulletin, as well as multimedia projects, such as Lasting Impacts, our tribute to over 40 years of IDRC-supported research, and the In_focus Collection of thematic mini-websites.

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Supporting food security solutions

As the world observes World Food Day on October 16, IDRC asked researchers: What can be done to help small-scale farmers become more productive, resilient, and profitable?The quotes below represent a range of views on this important issue. The...

United Nations builds on IDRC-funded research to track how age shapes the economy

The United Nations has recently issued the National Transfer Accounts manual: Measuring and analysing the generational economy, in cooperation with National Transfer Accounts (NTA) members. The manual, produced as part of a United Nations...

INEQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES

This is the second volume in a series of five books bringing together the results of intensive research on the national systems of innovation (NSI) in the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This book analyses the...

New varieties of potato can feed the poor

Crops such as potato have the potential to feed and contribute to the food security of vulnerable populations who depend on this ancestral tuber for their daily nutrition. But high-quality varieties are required. This Canadian–Colombian research...

Farmer groups key to boosting technology adoption in Kenya

Farming in Kenya’s arid regions is challenging because of low and erratic rainfall, land and water depletion, and climate change. Although decades of agricultural research have produced effective technologies to increase productivity, these have...

Connecting productivity, nutrition, and health: a “farm-to-fork” approach

Obesity rates are on the rise in the Caribbean, in large part because of the limited attention Caribbean countries have paid to local food production. They have relied instead on economic development through exports of plantation crops. As a result...

Farmers find ways to reap the financial and nutritional benefits of millets

Increasing the production and supply of small millets means rural households must have access to sustainable technologies and practices that make it easier to cultivate, process, sell, and consume these highly nutritious but underused grains. A...

Integrated fish management improves food security in the Bolivian Amazon

By finding new fish-based economic opportunities,improving nutritional knowledge, and supporting regulatory reform for sustainable fish management, this project is providing alternatives to addressing food security in the Bolivian Amazon. Five...

Farmers select innovations and practices that work for them

IDRC Bulletin — September 2013

In this issue, learn more about how IDRC and the Aga Khan Foundation Canada are partnering on a cross-Canada university tour focused on maternal and child health. You can also hear from researchers as they reflect on how we can make the economy more...

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