About "Charting Change"
A monthly blog about innovative projects in the developing world presented by Canadian Geographic and Canada’s International Development Research Centre
Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu (second from left) and her colleague Vedaste Ndungutse (far right) sample banana wine with locals in Musanze, Rwanda, in 2016. Rural women in Rwanda are now producing such beverages using long-neglected Indigenous knowledge. (Photo: Courtesy of Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu)
A woman in Bhubaneswar’s Mahavir Nagar slum wipes cold water over her face in an effort to cool off after coming out of her home on a day when the temperature reached 42.5 C, prompting a heat wave alert in the Eastern Indian city. (Photo: Rohit Magotra/IRADe)
Three women hold a poster promoting civil marriage during a forum about child marriage with traditional and religious leaders in Sokode, Togo. (Photo: WiLDAF)
Yassine Taha holds a brick that was produced in his lab using coal mining waste from the Moroccan city of Jerada. (Photo: IDRC)
Darius Rackus, a member of Keith Pardee’s lab at the University of Toronto, assembles portable diagnostic equipment that will be used to test for Zika and other diseases in South America. (Photo: Pardee Lab, University of Toronto)
Two women share maternal and child health information during a home visit in Bauchi state, Nigeria. (Photo: Federation of Muslim Women Association in Nigeria)
Locals from Uganda’s Kasese District show off a new hand-pedalled tricycle that converts into a wheelchair. (Photo: Bjarki Hallgrimsson)
A farmer in India sprays hexanal on mango trees. Hexanal is a naturally-occurring compound that’s being used to prevent fruit crops in India from spoiling. (Photo: Vijay Kutty/IDRC)
Researchers with the Akiba Mashinani Trust examine a map of Nairobi's Mukuru slum. In August 2017, activists succeeded in having the settlement designated as a special planning area, the first step in a process that could help transform the slum and the lives of its 300,000 residents. (Photo: Akiba Mashinani Trust)
Jemimah Njuki, a food-security expert with IDRC, believes that greater involvement for African women in food-security and agriculture research can benefit the whole continent.
