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APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: Often, the best answers can be found right at home.

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Cash from trash: using and reducing fish bycatch

Today — thanks to IDRC-supported research — fewer fish are being caught accidentally, and more of the “bycatch” is being processed for human consumption.

Some time ago, the world’s commercial fishers threw away many of the fish they netted. Why? Because a big share of their catch was not the primary target species and fetched a much lower price.

Grain dehullers: less toil, more food for Africans

Software for justice

Asian high tech streamlines traditional industry

IDRC’s core goal has always been to help researchers in developing countries tackle the problems that they themselves have identified. Some of the innovations that have resulted are strikingly simple and small-scale; others rely on advanced knowledge and sophisticated tools. In each case, however, the technologies have done their job – they have led to lasting solutions and improved lives.

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Fish bycatch: from pipe dream to progress
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Asian high tech streamlines traditional industry 2010-08
With IDRC support, Asian innovators have developed low-cost, microcomputer-based instruments to monitor and control complex agricultural and industrial processes.

Cash from trash: Using and reducing fish bycatch 2010-08
Today — thanks to IDRC-supported research — fewer fish are being caught accidentally, and more of the “bycatch” is being processed for human consumption.

Grain dehullers: less toil, more food for Africans 2010-08
In Senegal and other African countries, grain processing machinery adapted from a Canadian design has eliminated drudgery for women and girls, and made convenient food products more widely available.

Software for justice 2010-08
To collaborate in the fight against human rights violations such as covert arrests, torture, and death squad killings, governments and activists need accurate, timely information about these crimes.

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