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Daphnée Dion-Viens — Canada 2008-10 IDRC's Award for International Development Journalism took Daphnée Dion-Viens to Niger and Benin, where she witnessed and wrote about the consequences of counterfeit medications on human lives. Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Lance Robinson — Canada 2008-10 While researching his PhD in natural resources and environmental management, Robinson sought to understand how nomadic people in a thinly-populated area in Kenya’s northern desert participate in community decision-making. Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Teodosia Villarino — Canada 2008-08 “I wanted to understand how neo-liberal economic policies had affected poor women [in Cebu City, Philippines]. To the State these women are invisible but to their families they are everything.” Read the text: Open file. Watch the audio slideshow: Open file Joleen Timko — Canada 2008-07 As part of her doctoral research on Canadian and South African parks, forestry student Joleen Timko evaluated the ecological and social "success" of protected areas co-managed by indigenous groups. Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Thierno Baldé — Canada, Guinea 2008-06 "I come from a developing country, Guinea, and I know something about health problems: the lack of hospitals in rural areas, the lack of medicines and health professionals, people dying because care and drugs are not available. I wanted to help, to care for people, and to be useful." Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Ashok Kumbamu — India 2008-06 "I see farmers' suicides as a manifestation of a socio-ecological crisis, created by commoditization and commercialization of agriculture. I see technology as one of the major players in this social and ecological crisis." Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Sridharan Sethuratnam — India 2008-03 "I consider myself a farmer first before anything else. The lenses I look through now are influenced by my farming experience." Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Elizabeth Hunter — Canada 2008-03 "In one community, there was a lovely old woman who had cherry orchards and goats. She was dirt poor, but incredibly generous and spirited. It was a soul-fulfilling experience to meet people and hear them talk about their lives, their relationship to food, and the land." Read the text: Open file. Listen to the audio clip: Open file Katherine Reilly — Canada 2008-03 “Many actors from different walks of life are engaged in a political discussion to influence the future of the left in Latin America. I’m looking at the sorts of political manoeuvres that people use within transnational movements to influence the outcomes.” Susan M. Thomson - Canada 2008-02-11 "I don’t deal with the truth per se in the research [on post-genocide Rwanda]. I think everyone’s truth is different. You have your story, and I have my story. I try to provide as much context as possible about individuals, and leave it to the reader to determine the truth of their statements." Katie Lewis — Canada 2008-01 "At first I thought I might focus on HIV/AIDS but then I stumbled across a statistic that in Uganda, malaria kills more people than AIDS. This shocked me. We in the West hear nothing about this disease. And yet malaria is so preventable, so treatable. Why is so little being done about it?" |
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