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Research and Resources
Getting Back to Basics

Profile of IDRC's Innovation, Policy and Science program area.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-109312-201-1-DO_TOPIC

Teaming Up to Harness the Nile: Can Water Users' Assocations Become Effective?
In the Nile watershed, the home of ancient dynasties, 21st century farmers struggle to find better ways to irrigate their crops. Technical solutions help, but can farmers work together to improve their livelihoods in the long term?
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104350-201-1-DO_TOPIC

telecentre.org newsletter — January 2007
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-108148-201-1-DO_TOPIC


Features
Heroes of Danajon Bank

They are unlikely heroes — poor families who eke out a living fishing by lantern-light. Yet, they have been recognized internationally for their efforts to conserve the marine environment on the Danajon Bank in the Central Philippines.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-109872-201-1-DO_TOPIC

Telling IDRC's Story
Historians Dr. Ron Harpelle of Lakehead University and Dr. Bruce Muirhead of the University of Waterloo have been commissioned to write a book-length intellectual history of IDRC, and to produce related materials including a Website. Read their interview with IDRC Bulletin for a progress report.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-109918-201-1-DO_TOPIC


Next Generation of Researchers: Awardee Profiles
Mark Loewen

“On a worldwide basis, we need to consider what we are putting into the environment, because pesticides and other poisons are surprisingly mobile. They don't always stay put in the places where they are first used.”
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-106630-201-1-DO_TOPIC

Christina Holmes

“I grew up in an urban environment, so my connections to where my food comes from and how it starts are … remote. I think it's very important to know how new varieties of crops get created in the first place, and biotechnology is one of the ways we can use to do that.” 
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-106629-201-1-DO_TOPIC


IDRC Books
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND UNCULTIVATED BIODIVERSITY IN SOUTH ASIA
Essays on the Poverty of Food Policy and the Wealth of the Social Landscape

This publication explores the meaning of agriculture and guides the reader into new territory, where food, ecology, and culture converge. The authors are leading activists and accomplished researchers with a long history of engagement with farming communities in South Asia and elsewhere.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-107905-201-1-DO_TOPIC

PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: A SOURCEBOOK
Three-volume Set

This three-volume sourcebook provides easy access to field-tested PR&D concepts and practices for practitioners, researchers, and academic.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84706-201-1-DO_TOPIC


News
An Innovative Collaboration: Canada's New Government Supports Research for Global Health Problems
Canada's New Government announced that 13 research teams, pairing Canadian health researchers with counterparts in the developing world, will receive more than CA $20 million in funding through the Teasdale-Corti Team Grants.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-110013-201-1-DO_TOPIC

IDRC at the Fifty-first Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

IDRC hosted two panels at the fifty-first session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York March 1–2 2007.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-110144-201-1-DO_TOPIC

Appointment to IDRC's Board of Governors
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, has announced the appointment of Frieda Granot to IDRC’s Board of Governors.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-106615-201-1-DO_TOPIC

IDRC in the News — March 2007
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-109879-201-1-DO_TOPIC


Competitions
Canadian Window on International Development Awards

Deadline: April 1, 2009.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-23376-201-1-DO_TOPIC

IDRC Doctoral Research Awards

Deadline: April 1, 2009
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-23374-201-1-DO_TOPIC

IDRC Internship Awards

Deadline: September 12, 2009
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84370-201-1-DO_TOPIC



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