Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World: Canada and Research Development

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Acacia, xv, 42, 167–68, 174–78, 183–85 academic centres, 187–94 accountability, xii, 1, 23, 30, 42, 44, 45, 65, 147; bureaucrats and, 45 activism: Acacia and, 168; in Canadian politics, 21, 27; in Dakar, 109; IDRC and, 37; in Nepal, 54, 58, 66, 68; in Palestine, 89, 92; researchers and, 195 AFNS, 30–31, 33, 34, 37 Africa, 32–33; Acacia and (see Acacia); health workshops in, 32; ICTs and, 167–85; North, 12, 13; South (see South Africa); Southern, xv, 41; sub-Saharan (see sub-Saharan Africa); telephones in, 42 African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Project, 170 African Economic Outlook, 181 African Institute for Urban Management (IAGU), xiv, 109, 110, 115, 120, 121 African Virtual Open Initiative Resources, 168 African Women and ICTs, 183 Agency of Municipal Development (ADM), 118 Agenda 21, 37 Age of Aid, 51, 55, 63, 64, 69 Agricultural Information System database . See AGRIS agriculture, 6, 18, 28, 29, 31; argan trees and, 74, 83; eARN Africa and, 170; farmers’ unions and, 188–89, 192; industrialization of, 4; intensive, 41; in Nepal, 59–63; pesticides and, 34; in Senegal, 113; sustainability (see under sustainability ) Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Sciences (IDRC). See AFNS AGRIS, 32 aid: age of (see Age of Aid); big-name organizations and, 59; bureaucrats and, 45; Canada’s foreign, 21; foreign , 51; international foreign, 50–52, 53, 54, 55; multi-lateral agencies and, 59; privatization and, 59; “tied,” 2, 5 aid industry, 3, 4, 52, 66 aid projects, 59; Canada’s funding of, 18–19; managing, 14; Western, 45 al-Aqsa Mosque, 95 Index 217 218 i n d e x Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute, xv Amazigh people, 73, 74, 76, 81, 82 Amyot, Jacques, 16 “angel investors,” 149–50 animal sciences, 31 Annan, Kofi, 172 anti-Semitism, 88 apartheid, 22 APIX, 118 Arab–Israeli war: of 1948, 87; of 1967, 89 argan forest, 71, 72–76, 83, 84 argan oil, 71–85 argan-oil-producing co-operatives, xiv, 72, 81, 82, 83, 85 argan tree, 71–85 Argentina, 181, 188 Arias, Oscar, 137 armed forces, 10 Asia, 4, 7, 9, 13; communism in, 19. See also South Asia; Southeast Asia Association for Progressive Communications (APC), 182 Astori, Danilo, 194 Atoche, Indirha Zapata, 196–98, 200 Auditor General, 27 Australian Agricultural Centre, 30 Axworthy, Lloyd, 42 Bagmati Integrated Watershed Management Project (BIWMP), 61 Bagmati Watershed Project (BWP), 60–61 Balfour, Lord, 88 Balfour Declaration, 88 Ballestero, Tatiana, 136 Bangladesh, 172 Bechtel Corporation, 56, 57 Belgium, 12 Berber women, 79, 83, 198 Bezanson, Keith, 36, 37, 40 Bhattedanda Milkway, 60–61, 62 Biosphere Reserve site, 73 Birdsall, Nancy, 132 Birzeit University (BZU), 89, 94, 96, 97, 104 Bokk Diom Association, 121 Bolivar, Simon, 4 Bombay Transportation Commission, 11 Bordaberry, Juan Maria, 187 Boyce, Will, 98, 99, 105 Brazil, 6, 23 Bretton Woods Conference, 8 BRIC countries, xi, 23 British Commonwealth of Nations. See Commonwealth of Nations bureaucratic hierarchism, 64–67, 69 Cade program, 145 Campbell, Duncan, 139 Canada: influence of, 8; postwar, 9–13 “Canada and Research for Development : Past, Present and Future,” vii Canada Pension Plan, 21 Canadian Bilateral ODA, 11 Canadian Crossroads International, 17 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 22, 43 Canadian International Development Agency. See CIDA Canadian International Water and Energy Consultants (CIWEC), 55–57 capacity-building, xii, 1, 4; Acacia and, 167; digital technology as, 128–29, 135, 141, 146–47 capital-intensive projects, 4 CARE, 144 Carr, Nicholas, 138 Casa de los Tres Mundos, 141, 145 Castells, Manuel, 130 Catholic Church, 15–16 Cavell, Nik, 9, 14–15 CBR, 100–106 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 154 Central America, xv, 12, 41; e-learning in, 198. See also ODF i n d e x 219 Central American Economic Integration Bank, 144 Centre for Developing-Area Studies, 13 Centre for Economic Research (Uruguay), 190 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), vii, x–xi, xiii Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay, 188 Ceylon, 11, 19 Charrouf, Zoubida, xiv, 71–72, 212 China, 3, 6, 16, 23 Chinese Revolution, 7, 16 Chisholm, Brock, 2, 15 Christian principles, 15–17 Chulalongkorn University, 16 CIDA, 2–3, 5, 14, 16, 19–20, 22; Nepal and, 53, 57, 67, 69 CIEDUR, 190, 193 CIESU, 188–89, 190, 192, 193 Cissé, Oumar, xiv, 109, 211–12 Citizens of the World, xi civil activism, 109, 168 civil institutions, 92, 93 civil resistance/disobedience, ix, 89, 189...