Program area focus:  

• Ensuring secure sources of food and water for the poor in both rural and urban areas by focusing on institutional development, production technology, local resource management, and by appropriate policy choices;
• Improving human health and well-being by better managing ecosystems;
• Protecting local management and control of biodiversity in light of global initiatives and policies governing genetic resources.

Our programs:

• Agriculture and Food Security Program
  Supports research to improve food and income security for poor women and men in developing countries.

• The Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF)
  A joint program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

• Climate Change and Water Program
  Helping the world’s most vulnerable people adapt to the water related impacts of climate change

• Ecosystems and Human Health Program
  Ecohealth supports research in developing countries to solve human health problems rooted in ecosystem conditions.

• Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
  A program to support African countries in their efforts to adapt to climate change through action research and capacity development.

• Environmental Economics
  This program aims to strengthen local capacity for the economic analysis of environmental problems so that researchers can provide sound advice to policymakers.

• WaDImena
  The Regional Water Demand Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (WaDImena) promotes water demand management approaches and policies in the region.

• Rural Poverty and Environment Program
  Archived site.

• Urban Poverty and Environment Program
  

   

• Office for Central and Eastern Europe Initiatives (OCEEI)
  IDRC no longer actively supports this project, but maintains this site to ensure that others have access to its research outputs