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 In profile, IDRC awardee Archana Dwivedi
1998-02-17
In January, 1993, Doctoral Research Awardee Archana Dwivedi travelled to northwestern India to see if community participation improved the effectiveness of local health programs. Not only did Archana's research provide insights ion how to imptove the design health programs, it also firmly established her career path 
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Side Effects
1998-02-16
A study explores the link between the cure for anemia and malaria.
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 The Environmental and Social Impact of Commercial Shrimp Farms
1998-02-13
Throughout the Asia-Pacific region, people who have traditionally sustained themselves through fishing are no longer able to do so. Inappropriate fishing technologies and forestry practices, urbanization, over-harvesting, pollution, growing corporate concentration and vertical integration of the global fishing industry are all having a ruinous impact on coastal communities and fish habitat, warned panellists at a recent international workshop on fishing and aquaculture.
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Eccosen 2005-2015, holding back the desert
1998-02-12
In collaboration with Senegalese scientists, a group of specialists in remote sensing from the University of Sherbrooke are putting the finishing touches on a geographic information system(GIS)that will help African nations deal with the next drought in the Sahel. (This article appears in French only.)
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From Napoleon to Radarsat: examining the Nile delta
1998-02-10
To chart the changes to the Nile delta over the past 200 years, a student from the University of Québec at Rimouski is comparing maps commissioned by Napoleon with modern-day satellite images. His research should make it easier to forecast the impact of human activity in this region.
Article appears in French only
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 Restoring Soil Fertility in Western Kenya
1998-02-06
The highlands of East and Central Africa have among the highest agricultural potential on the continent. The rainfall is adequate and the temperatures are moderate. Despite this, crop yields in western Kenya are declining. Due to intensive agriculture over the last three decades, the soil of this densely populated region (500-1,000 people per square kilometre) is being drained of its nutrients, particularly phosphorus.
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 The University of Costa Rica's Masters Program in Water Resource Management and Hydrogeology
1998-01-30
Last August, some 50 high-ranking government ministers, vice ministers, and institute directors met in Managua, Nicaragua to consider the future of the city's water supply. According to Managua's master water supply plan, dependence on an aquifer located right below the city should be reduced. The plan claims that the aquifer — the sole source of water since 1925 — has been pumped too hard in recent decades and can not supply Managua's growing population much longer. It recommends searching for an alternative water source far away from the city.
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 Promoting Local Water Management in Nepal
1998-01-23
In the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, the land of the world's tallest mountains, smaller may be better. At least, that's what two engineers believe when it comes to water management. "We've got to get rid of the fixation in our part of the world that water means projects, and projects means large projects," says Dipak Gyawali of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation (NWCF). Gyawali and his partner, Ajaya Dixit, see themselves as myth-busters with a mission: to convince the government to examine all of the options for wise water management before embarking on costly high risk, large projects.
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In Conversation: with Darrell Posey
1998-01-20
As the century draws to a close, the phrase "you bought it, you own it" echoes around the world. Darrell Posey maintains that this pervasive, largely Western concept of intellectual, cultural, and scientific property and rights threatens our planet's biodiversity and perhaps life itself. Dr. Posey shares his thoughts on the need to embrace the more broader notion of traditional resource rights.
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 PAN Laos: Connecting Vientiane to the Internet
1998-01-16
The tuk-tuk coasted gently across the bumpy road running parallel to the Mekong River for about two kilometres before turning into a compound housing various agricultural and fisheries project offices. The three-wheeled street taxi delivered a team of computer specialists: two from the Science, Technology, and Environment Organisation (STENO) of Lao PDR and the third from the PAN Asia Networking (PAN) team from Singapore. Their arrival in July 1996 ended a long wait by the development experts and their staff working in the compound.
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 Monitoring Rice Crops from Space
1998-01-09
From Pakistan to Japan, it grows on more than one-third of the cultivated land and provides 35-80 % of the total calories consumed by the majority of Asians. Such numbers illustrate the importance of rice in the South. Yet most rice-producing countries lack adequate data on how much rice is growing where, how well the current crop is doing, and whether or not their supply will meet demand — information that is vital to ensuring food security.
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In Conversation: with Rodolphe de Koninck
1998-01-06
From 1994-1996, Dr. Rodolphe de Koninck and a team of Canadian and Vietnamese researchers studied the reasons behind Vietnam's rapidly retreating forest cover. Their findings were published by IDRC books in Le recul de la forêt au Vietnam (The shrinking forests of Vietnam). In this interview with IDRC Books, he debunks the official line that points the finger at traditional "slash and burn" farming practices. In doing so, he also clearly shows who is to blame for the fires that ravaged Indonesia this past autumn.
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 Ferdinand Bonn: A Canadian Remote Sensing Pioneer and 'Friend' of Viet Nam
1998-01-02
A Canadian professor at the forefront of remote sensing has received a Friendship Medal from the Government of Viet Nam. Last summer Ferdinand Bonn, who teaches at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, was recognized for his role in the development of information systems to monitor Viet Nam's flood-prone Red River Delta. Dr Bonn is only the second Canadian to receive the medal, which is the country's highest honour given to foreigners.
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Closing the Knowledge Gap
1997-12-22
The Information Age is not a matter of conjecture, it is a reality for both the developed and developing world. IDRC's PAN Asia initiative is one example of how the technology that is driving this revolution can be put to productive use as a development tool.
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 Investigating the Health Effects of Low-Level Exposure to Methyl Mercury
1997-12-19
Jean Lebel will long remember that long sleepless night in the summer of 1996, searching computer databases. At exactly 2:44 a.m. — eureka! Before his tired eyes, a sinusoidal curve suddenly appeared on his computer screen. There was no doubt that a link existed between the seasons and methyl mercury levels found in a village population in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Recovering Economic Self-confidence in Africa
1997-12-15
A senior cadre of African economists wants Africans to play a central role in decision-making that affects their continent. In this review, we hear from one of their leaders, Professor Thandika Mkandawire and examine IDRC's role in helping Africans develop their own particular perspective on global economics.
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 Detecting the Presence of Waterborne Chemicals: Alternative Water Tests for the South
1997-12-12
Dampen a piece of absorbent paper with a sample of untreated water. Place some buttercrunch lettuce seeds on the paper. Incubate them at room temperature for four to five days. Compare the length of the emerging seedlings or roots to those of seeds grown under normal conditions with potable water that is not chemically contaminated...
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Technology File: Portable Water-Testing Kit
1997-12-10
Safe drinking water is essential to good health, but conventional methods of water testing have depended on sophisticated laboratories and highly trained technicians largely unavailable in developing countries and remote communities in Canada. IDRC has funded research in Asia, Africa and Latin America to evaluate existing water tests for their accuracy, simplicity, and cost. The results speak for themselves.
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Leading the Battle to End 'Hidden Hunger'
1997-12-08
The lack of iodine, iron, and vitamin A affects billions of people worldwide. The solutions needed to end this problem are known and affordable. The Micronutrient Initiative (MI), an international secretariat housed at IDRC, is leading the charge to mobilize the political will needed to bring an to this "hidden hunger".
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Regional Integration in Africa
1997-12-06
IDRC brought together a group of African intellectuals in Dakar, Senegal to discuss new visions of regionalism. The ideas emanating from the conference form the core of Regional Integration and Cooperation in West Africa. The book's editor, Dr. Réal Lavergne, highlights some of its key issues in an interview with Reports.
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 Improving Natural Resource Management in Cajamarca, Peru
1997-12-05
The pleasant colonial town of Cajamarca, in the high-altitude sierra of the Peruvian Andes, is located in a temperate, fertile valley dotted with cattle and eucalyptus groves. But Cajamarca and the surrounding countryside are suffering from the effects of centuries of mismanagement and misuse of the fragile natural environment.
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Essential Oils provide income for Bolivians
1997-11-25
Researchers from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi are collaborating in a Bolivian project to develop a small-scale essential oils industry in rural Bolivia. The project will provide much needed income for local communities and an alternative to coca production. The article is reproduced from Interface the magazine of the Association cannadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences. In French only
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Helping the Thirsty to Solve Their Water Crisis
1997-11-25
IDRC's support for water projects has shifted from simply supplying clean water to also controlling its demand. Future projects will examine both sides of the water coin by attempting to integrate the many and often conflicting demands that humans place on this precious resource. This short history chronicles the change as part of the Centre's "Equity in Natural Resource Use" theme.
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 Controlling Malaria: A Low Cost, Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Killer
1997-11-21
For years, Peruvian microbiologist Palmira Ventosilla, an expert on tropical disease vectors, has toiled to control malaria, by targeting the spread of the Anopheles mosquito. In 1991, her work took on a greater urgency when P. falciparum — the most deadly type of malaria parasite — spread to Peru.
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First International Development Research Organization in China
1997-11-06
A treaty establishing the first international development and research organization in China was signed in Beijing today by Canada and ten other countries. The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) will be headquartered in the Chinese capital city. The INBAR treaty is the result of more than 15 years of research funding by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and other donors.
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Dr. Babou Diakham of Senegal wins First Prize
1997-10-30
(Dakar) Dr. Babou Diakham, Assistant Professor in the Physiology Laboratory of the Department of Animal Biology within the University of Cheikh Anta Diop's (UCAD) Faculty of Sciences in Dakar, has won first prize from the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, during the 16th International Nutrition Congress which was held in Montreal.
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