Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources
Management CRSP:
Biodiversity
Conservation Components
SANREM CRSP
Virginia Tech
The Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (SANREM) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) differs from most other CRSPs in that it was specifically designed to address biodiversity conservation issues. The USAID SANREM CRSP RFA specifically mentioned the need for “… linking livelihoods and agricultural production to biodiversity conservation…” and the SANREM CRSP was consequently designed to address biodiversity conservation. The SANREM long-term research RFA, stated “Biodiversity conservation is both a SANREM area of inquiry and a USAID priority. Applications involving the relationships between SA and NRM and biodiversity conservation are highly encouraged.” As a consequence, all SANREM long-term research activities have biodiversity components and three of the five SANREM long-term research awards receive full or partial biodiversity conservation earmark credit (approximately $720,000 FY2006). The other two projects are being studied to determine if they can be modified to receive partial biodiversity earmark credit. The two SANREM activities with full biodiversity earmark credit are: “Decentralization Reforms and Property Rights: Potentials and Puzzles for Forest Sustainability and Livelihoods”, PI Elinor Ostrom, University of Indiana, and “Developing A Participatory Socio-Economic Model For Food Security, Improved Rural Livelihoods, Watershed Management, & Biodiversity Conservation In Southern Africa”, PI Alex Travis, Cornell University. The presentation describes the biodiversity conservation components of the SANREM CRSP and how individual activities address biodiversity