• Global Information Exchange
  This initiative facilitates exchange among and between researchers and decision-makers through various media and fora. Exchange among researchers emphasizes collaborative development of methodologies for identifying appropriate technologies, practices, and policies with wide applicability. Exchange among decision-makers emphasizes collaborative development and sharing of decision-support tools and methods. Exchange between researchers and decision-makers emphasizes the comparison between the needs of decision-makers (demands) and the characteristics of the decision-support products provided by the researchers (supply) as well as lessons learned along the way. The project supports traditional face-to-face meetings (workshops, symposia, etc.), electronic conferences, and publications.

• Global Decision Support Systems
  This initiative develops and demonstrates the utility of geo-referenced methods and related data/information bases for assessing impact of changes in technology and policy on agriculture and natural resource use. A suite of geo-referenced economic, environmental, and biophysical models is being developed and linked. The resulting global decision support system (GDSS) includes critical foundation data for spatially explicit analyses as well as access through global networking to other models and sources of relevant information. The GDSS is being developed and adapted for use at levels of scale from farm to global. Methods are being developed and refined using relevant real-world assessments at varying scales as development-demonstration platforms.

• West Africa
  This regional project, initiated in Mali provides research and methodological support to decision-makers in circumstances where there is stakeholder conflict over access and use of resources exacerbated by weather variability and climate change.

• Andes
  Initiated in Ecuador, this regional project provides research and methodological support to local, regional and global decision-makers concerned with sustainable mountain development in regions characterized by fragile highland-lowland interactive landscapes.

• Southeast Asia
  This regional project, initiated in the Philippines, supports decision-makers in circumstances where global and regional markets as well as devolution of authority strongly influence local natural resource management.

• SANREM
  SANREM has a combination of regional and global projects. The regional projects focus on the needs of local decision-makers in sites where the causes of non-sustainability are representative of the region. The global projects respond to the needs of national, regional, and global decision-makers and emphasize the development of decision-support outputs with wide applicability.