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makers and builds an action-oriented knowledge
base for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management
stakeholders. This integrated systems approach demonstrates how
gender, biophysical, technological, governance, economic, social,
environmental, and global factors can be linked to achieve
sustainable development.
As the Management Entity (ME) for the SANREM
CRSP, OIRED/Virginia Tech provides overall leadership to projects
based at a variety of U.S. universities and developing country
institutions. SANREM provides access to appropriate data, knowledge,
tools and methods of analysis, to improve decision making capacity,
livelihoods, and natural resource sustainability. The work is
research-based, but researchers work actively with local people in
targeted areas to identify and implement sustainable livelihood
solutions.
Current Long-Term Research Activities target decentralized
management of forest resources, agricultural markets for livelihoods
and biodiversity conservation, watershed management for small-scale
agriculture, natural resource property rights regimes, agroforestry,
and sustainable production practices and strategies for vulnerable
agro-ecosystems. This work involves collaboration with international
and host country research institutions, the private sector, NGOs,
and community leaders in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru,
Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zambia..
SANREM also facilitates integration into USAID Mission strategic
frameworks, providing for a good "fit" and adding value that
furthers the goals of both SANREM and the American people.
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