Awardee Profiles from 2006: International Development Research Centre

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Awardee Profiles from 2006

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Donald Buckingham 2006
"Every once in a while the David does come up and beat the Goliath. Europeans had a rule: only sardines from the Mediterranean and the western coast of the Atlantic could be called sardines. Peru lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization ... The Europeans had to revamp their law to allow for the sale of Peruvian sardines. That gives me hope that international standards are not working to the disadvantage of developing countries."

Christina Holmes 2006
“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.”

Bangaly Kaba 2006
"By gaining a better understanding of the factors influencing the adoption of new technologies in developing countries, we will be able to identify courses of action that will facilitate the success of certain development projects."

Ayesha Bhatty 2006
"In India, I was living out of a suitcase and in a different city every week. You show up in a city, and you know nothing, and you have to arrange your accommodation, and on top of that, you have to do your stories. I really hustled while there."

Shannon Wynne Ripley 2006
"There’s a lot of great science that goes on that needs to be communicated back to communities so that people are able to use it in their everyday lives. I believe that anybody can understand anything that’s going on around the world, if the information is communicated in a way that they can relate to and apply."

Mark Loewen 2006
“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.”

María Cecilia Roa-García 2006
“Working for an investment bank was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I felt a stronger commitment to work for the mountains and environments where I spent long periods as a child, and where there is so much room for improving living conditions.”

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