Working wonders with mine waste
The huge piles of coal mining waste in the northeastern Moroccan city of Jerada have been an environmental blight for two decades, but now scientists have found a way to clean them up and transform the...
View ArticleBreaking the bonds of childhood marriage
When young girls from West Africa marry as children, it can hurt them, their families, their communities and their nations. But an innovative project involving the girls themselves is helping challenge...
View ArticleCool solutions
How researchers are finding ways to help low-income city dwellers in South Asia adapt to urban heat stress. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a...
View ArticleFrom old plants and old ways, a new African agriculture
Once on the verge of being forgotten in some parts of Africa, Indigenous agricultural knowledge is poised to make a comeback. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the...
View ArticleA decade of improving food security around the world
After nearly a decade of supporting projects around the developing world, the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund ends in December 2018. Discover how and where it helped change millions...
View ArticleSustainable development’s big data revolution
In Sri Lanka, researchers are examining how big data gleaned from mobile phone networks provides insight into everything from traffic patterns to population density and could help countries meet their...
View ArticleA safe space on stage
Women migrating from Central America to the United States often end up physically and emotionally scarred from the sexual violence they encounter on their way north. But theatre is helping them and...
View ArticleSaving more livestock, stabilizing more lives
The livestock diseases peste des petits ruminants (or PPR), Rift Valley Fever and goat and sheep pox affect millions of animals and people around the world. But a Moroccan veterinary pharmaceutical...
View ArticleA feminist approach to open government
The term “open government” is synonymous with the idea of inclusivity, but as three female experts on the topic note, women and women’s issues are still vastly underrepresented in the open government...
View ArticleDesigned in Canada, deployed in Mozambique
It was designed and tested in Saskatoon, but now a motorcycle ambulance is helping communities in Mozambique ensure that pregnant women can get to the medical care they and their newborns need. Part of...
View ArticleBuilding water-stress resilience in Panama
Drought and water shortages have long been a fact of life in Panama, but as the climate continues to change, the Central American country is ramping up its efforts to conserve and manage the resource....
View ArticleThe math behind China’s fight against HIV
In China’s Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, a series of programs born from mathematical modelling have provided a valuable sociomedical lifeline to a region hit hard by the HIV epidemic. Part of an...
View ArticleCombating gender-based violence in Colombia
Colombia’s era of armed conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, officially ended in 2016, but violence of another kind remains a problem in the South American country....
View ArticleReducing e-waste recycling risks in Ghana
Burning rubber and plastic to recover valuable materials from e-waste dumped at Agbogbloshie is cheap, easy and incredibly harmful to the health of those who scavenge the notorious recycling site in...
View ArticleInsights on artificial intelligence in the developing world
Artificial intelligence is transforming societies worldwide. In developing countries, AI’s potential to benefit local economies, healthcare, agriculture, education and other sectors is sparking...
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