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See also our Partners page.

Material of relevance to the work of the Drylands Programme is listed below, under the following topics:

Africa-focused websites

• Africa South of the Sahara (Africa-related internet resources)
• IED Afrique (Innovations, Environnement et Développement en Afrique) The newly formed independent organisation based in Dakar, Senegal (formerly the IIED Sahel Programme)
• NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center) — Africa

Biodiversity links

Climate Change

• UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)
• UNDP — Climate
• IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) — Climate Change
• Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
• Centre Regional Agrhymet (Sahelian region)

Land tenure

• Oxfam - Land Rights in Africa
• Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin
• FAO - Sustainable Development Dimensions — Land Tenure
• World Bank’s Land Policy Network
• GRET (Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges Technologiques)
• RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute), Kenya
• Caledonia — Land issues in Scotland and elsewhere
  • CCSD - The Commonweal Papers
• Whoseland.com — Land rights & indigenous minorities in Australia and elsewhere
• PLAAS (Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies) — Land reform in South Africa
  • PAPLRR Pan-African Programme on Land and Resource Rights
• Center for World Indigenous Studies — Africa
• International Land Coalition

Livelihoods - Poverty

• IDS (Institute of Development Studies) — Poverty
• The World Bank - Poverty
• ODI(Overseas Development Institute)
• IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) — Communities and livelihoods
• Livelihoods Connect
• IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)
• GDRC (Global Development Research Center) - Micro credits
• Pôle Microfinancement
• Jubilee 2000

Pastoral Development

• African Initiatives (a UK based social justice organisation that supports African communities and their local organisations by providing resources, training, information, advice and advocacy)
• Vetaid
• Vétérinaires Sans Frontières
• ODI - The Pastoral Development Network
• ILRI (international Livestock Research Institute)

Rural Development

• Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
• FAO - Forum: Technical Consultation on Decentralization
• ENDA (environnement et développement du tiers-monde)
• The World Bank — Indigenous Knowledge Initiative Database
• CIRAN (Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks)
• MOST (Management of Social Transformation Programme) - UNESCO Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge
• WGTRR (Working Group on Traditional Resource Rights)
• ELDIS Electronic development and environment information system
• The World Initiative on Sustainable Pastoralism - WISP

Soil & Water - Desertification

• FAO — Soil fertility
• CDCS (Centre for Development Cooperation Services) — Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation
• IWMI (International Water Management Institute)
• Global Water Partnership
• UNDP — International Waters
• World Water Council
• World Commissions on Dams
• CCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification)
• UNEP Activities in Land Use
• UNDP Office to Combat Desertification and Drought
• IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development)
• RIOD (Réseau Internationale des ONG sur la Désertification
  

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