Inside this edition: Collaborating globally Volume XXVIII Number 1 June 2013 WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW Less waste, more space 8 Better cancer treatment 14 In India, Chennai locals Smart climate flock to a water truck, change 27 carrying their colourful, U of G-engineered water storage containers that Food security minimize contamination and disease. Read more for Asia 32 on page 21. At the University of Guelph… Ingenuity Best Return on Matters! Investment in Canada The University of Guelph is Canada’s most inventive university. Guelph ranks No. 1 both in the number of inventions per faculty and in the number of inventions in proportion to research funding, according to a survey by the Impact Group. In fact, Guelph’s invention disclosure rate is twice the national average, and we have by far the lowest cost-per-disclosure rate in the country. This is possible because of our world-class researchers, infrastructure and visionary partners, including the provincial and federal governments. 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Or even across the Ontario Cattlemen’s Association and Food, and the Ministry of Guelph Mercury Rural Affairs country. Grain Farmers of Ontario Ontario Farmer But the University of Guelph has traditionally gone beyond Dairy Farmers of Ontario Farms.com those boundaries. And with the arrival of increasingly sophisticated Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and communication tools, that outreach has become all-encompassing. Food, and the Ministry of Rural Affairs Today, about a third of all research publications in the University involve at least one international collaborator. *Associate Deans of Research Regardless of discipline and orientation, research is now inherently Stuart McCook, College of Arts collaborative across disciplines and across countries. Networks of Glen Van Der Kraak, College of Biological Science collaboration connect Guelph faculty, students and staff with researchers Sylvain Charlebois, College of Management and Economics in universities and research centres everywhere. Deb Stacey, College of Physical and Engineering Sciences This issue of Research focuses on some of those collaborations. Like Belinda Leach, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences Bev Hale, Ontario Agricultural College the research highlighted on our international collaborations website Gordon Kirby, Ontario Veterinary College www.uoguelph.ca/international/info/, the stories here show how international teams of researchers work on leading-edge questions and issues. Their contributions are characterized by their depth of Publication Mail Agreement number 40064673 engagement and by the commitment to provide leadership. 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Visit the University of Guelph research site www.uoguelph.ca/research Kevin Hall, Vice-President (Research and External Partnerships) Cover photo: Morgan MacDonald Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Hall June 2013 | RESEARCH 3 COLLABORATING GLOBALLY GREENLAND UNITED STATES ICELAND SWEDEN FINLAND RUSSIA NORWAY ESTONIA DENMARK CANADA IRELAND ENGLAND NETHERLANDS WALES GERMANY BELGIUM CZECH REPUBLIC UKRAINE SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA HUNGARY CROATIA ROMANIA FRANCE SERBIA GEORGIA ITALY PORTUGAL SPAIN GREECE TURKEY UNITED STATES JAPAN SOUTH KOREA CHINA MOROCCO ISRAEL IRAN JORDAN ALGERIA EGYPT QATAR INDIA BANGLADESH MEXICO UNITED ARAB TAIWAN VIETNAM CUBA EMIRATES JAMAICA LAOS HAITI PUERTO GUADELOUPE THAILAND GUATEMALA HONDURAS RICO MARTINIQUE PHILIPPINES EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA BARBADOS CAMBODIA TRINIDAD AND GUINEA BENIN COSTA RICA TOBAGO NIGERIA VENEZUELA SIERRA PANAMA GUYANA LEONE GHANA SRI LANKA FRENCH GUIANA CAMEROON COLOMBIA MALAYSIA EQUATORIAL UGANDA GUINEA KENYA SINGAPORE ECUADOR INDONESEA PAPUA TANZANIA NEW GUINEA MALAWI PERU BRAZIL FRENCH POLYNESIA SAMOA ZAMBIA BOLIVIA VANUATU MADAGASCAR FIJI ZIMBABWE BOTSWANA COOK ISLANDS PARAGUAY NEW CALEDONIA AUSTRALIA SOUTH AFRICA URUGUAY ARGENTINA CHILE NEW ZEALAND University of Guelph researchers work with collaborators in more than 100 countries Algeria Cambodia Denmark French Polynesia Honduras Jordan New Zealand Argentina Cameroon Ecuador Georgia Hungary Kenya Nicaragua Australia Canada Egypt Germany Iceland Laos Nigeria Austria Chile El Salvador Ghana India Madagascar Norway Bangladesh China England Greece Indonesia Malawi Panama Barbados Colombia Equatorial Guinea Greenland Iran Malaysia Papua New Guinea Belgium Cook Islands Estonia Guadeloupe Ireland Martinique Paraguay Benin Costa Rica Fiji Guatemala Israel Mexico Peru Bolivia Croatia Finland Guinea Italy Morocco Philippines Botswana Cuba France Guyana Jamaica Netherlands Portugal Brazil Czech Republic French Guiana Haiti Japan New Caledonia Puerto Rico 4 RESEARCH | June 2013 Read more international collaboration research stories at http://goo.gl/ZpDTv GREENLAND Contents Volume XXVII, Number 1 UNITED STATES COMMUNITY ICELAND SWEDEN FINLAND RUSSIA NORWAY Lights on in rural Nicaragua 7 ESTONIA DENMARK CANADA Cleaning up Guatemalan communities 8 IRELAND ENGLAND NETHERLANDS WALES GERMANY BELGIUM CZECH REPUBLIC UKRAINE Argentinians turn trash into cash 9 SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA HUNGARY CROATIA ROMANIA FRANCE SERBIA Improving the Human Development Index 10 GEORGIA ITALY PORTUGAL SPAIN GREECE TURKEY UNITED STATES JAPAN SOUTH KOREA Development from the bottom up 11 CHINA MOROCCO ISRAEL IRAN JORDAN ALGERIA Lessons learned on Estonia’s tourism trail 12 EGYPT QATAR INDIA BANGLADESH MEXICO UNITED ARAB TAIWAN VIETNAM Seeing through the smoke in South Korea 13 CUBA EMIRATES JAMAICA LAOS HAITI PUERTO GUADELOUPE THAILAND GUATEMALA HONDURAS RICO MARTINIQUE PHILIPPINES EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA BARBADOS CAMBODIA TRINIDAD AND GUINEA BENIN HEALTH COSTA RICA TOBAGO NIGERIA VENEZUELA SIERRA PANAMA GUYANA LEONE GHANA SRI LANKA FRENCH GUIANA CAMEROON COLOMBIA MALAYSIA EQUATORIAL UGANDA Chemotherapy gets a boost 14 GUINEA KENYA SINGAPORE ECUADOR INDONESEA PAPUA Treating nausea with cannabis 15 TANZANIA NEW GUINEA MALAWI PERU BRAZIL FRENCH POLYNESIA SAMOA Unlocking cell security 16 ZAMBIA BOLIVIA VANUATU MADAGASCAR FIJI ZIMBABWE Malaria-fighting enzymes 17 BOTSWANA COOK ISLANDS PARAGUAY NEW CALEDONIA AUSTRALIA Cambodia’s cure for anemia 18 SOUTH AFRICA URUGUAY Novel pots for better health 20 ARGENTINA CHILE NEW ZEALAND Clean water for India 21 ENVIRONMENT Scanning the world’s biodiversity 22 Better welfare for captive parrots 23 Trees and crops help Ghanaian farms 24 Fishing for solutions in the Mekong Basin 25 University of Guelph researchers work with Practical solutions for sustainable industries 26 Facing the Arctic melt 27 collaborators in more than 100 countries A new buzz for beekeeping in Vietnam 28 FOOD Qatar Sri Lanka United States Coffee plant disease imperils harvests 29 Romania Sweden Uruguay Russia Switzerland Vanuatu Bringing healthier pigs to Kenyan markets 30 Samoa Taiwan Venezuela Scotland Tanzania Vietnam Millet gets makeover for food security 32 Serbia Thailand Wales Sierra Leone Trinidad and Tobago Zambia Singapore Turkey Zimbabwe Searching for China’s toughest rice and corn 34 South Africa Uganda South Korea Ukraine Local planning takes on global food crisis 35 Spain United Arab Emirates Photo: iStock June