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| News | Microcredit Pioneer Wins Peace Nobel
Longtime IDRC partner Muhammad Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104786-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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IDRC Partner Wins MacArthur Award for Creativity
The Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, or SPDA) has been awarded the MacArthur Foundation's inaugural Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104785-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Features | Rehabilitating Kenya's Judicial System
"Corruption underdevelops a country. […] It cripples the whole machinery of government and society," says Justice Mary Ang'awa of Kenya's High Court. Ang'awa is a member of the Kenya Women Judges Association, which has been working to address two of Kenya's biggest problems – corruption within the judiciary, and gender violence. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104828-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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IDRC Showcases Globalization Projects at IPRA
Does trade between nations prevent them from going to war with one another? Does globalization promote growth and prosperity and hence diffuse tensions within states? These and other questions were explored and debated during a panel sponsored by IDRC's Peace, Conflict and Development program at the 21st Biennial Conference of the International Peace Research Association. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104290-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Food — A Slideshow
IDRC, through its Urban Poverty and Environment (UPE), and Rural Poverty and Environment (RPE) programs, is matching innovative solutions to food security challenges around the world. To better understand the issues of food security and hunger, view the slideshow. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104204-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| IDRC Books |
INDONESIA'S FIRES AND HAZE
The Cost of Catastrophe (with a 2006 update)
In 1997, fires in Indonesia pumped enough smoke into the air to blanket the entire region in haze, reaching as far north as Thailand and the Philippines. The fires were one of the century's worst environmental disasters. This book looks at the causes of the fires, the resulting physical damages, and their effects on health, industrial production, and tourism. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9410-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Research and Resources | Escape From a Toxic "Catch-22"
IDRC-supported research is turning the tide against the use of highly toxic pesticides that have increased potato yields at the expense of people’s health in the poverty-stricken highlands of Ecuador. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-94881-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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A Multipronged Approach to Ensuring Food Security
IDRC believes that poverty alleviation, food security, and environmental sustainability go hand in hand. It also believes that effectively addressing these interlinked challenges requires working actively with the main actors, from farmers to researchers to government officials. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104444-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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