ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins is working to raise productivity and income of rural households in the humid tropics without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services. ASB is a consortium of over 90...

Adelphi Research

Adelphi was founded in 2001 as a non-profit research organization on sustainability science and public policy consulting. Its multi-disciplinary team of currently 72 political scientists, lawyers, economists, engineers and environmental planners...

Afghanistan Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment, January 2003

Afghanistan is at a crucial point in its tumultuous history. Since 1973, Afghanistan has changed regimes frequently, and has been led by eight different leaders. Instability and war has caused widespread devastation, insecurity, displacement,...

Africa Conservation Fund (ACF)

Africa Conservation Fund (ACF) is a UK-registered charity that was created in 2005 to help protect the fauna and flora of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then ACF has worked in close partnership with the Congolese...

An outline of trade flows of legally and illegally extracted natural resources from fragile states: The case of coltan in the Kivus, DRC

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a good example of the ‘paradox of plenty’ theory according to which countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources, especially non-renewable resources such as minerals and fuels, tend to...

Anatomy of Resource Wars (The)

In several countries around the developing world, abundant natural resources help fuel conflict, either by attracting predatory groups seeking to control them or by financing wars that were initially caused by other factors. Prominent examples...

Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)

The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) is a non-political cooperative organization, of which the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of ten African countries are members:...

At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, and Environment in the Tropical Forests

Preserving the world’s rapidly shrinking tropical forests and improving the economic prospects of millions of poor people requires an urgent strengthening of national forest governance. Globally, this calls for strong financial incentives, says a...

British National Space Centre (BNSC)

The British National Space Centre (BNSC) is a voluntary partnership, formed from 11 Government Departments and Research Councils, to coordinate. UK civil space activity. Together their expenditure on civil space amounts to around £195 million per...

CITES Designation for Endangered Rosewood in Madagascar

Logging in Madagascar, one of the world’s most threatened biodiversity hot spots, has rapidly increased amid political turmoil since a transitional government assumed power in March 2009. With as much as 90% of the country’s primary forest...