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Journal Articles & Books
December 2016
Colombia
Central America
South America

Increasingly, geospatial web applications such as www.fixmystreet.com or www.seeclickfix.com are being integrated within citizen participation processes in spatial planning and the provision of communal services.

Conference Papers & Reports
December 2016
Guatemala

In 2014 the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing took effect and is being implemented by countries. This is important for fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from genetic resources. However, scientists are concerned about its effect on non-commercial research, which has scientific, societal and environmental benefits beyond commercial gains.

Multimedia
January 2012
Kenya
Africa
Eastern Africa

This is the story of a group of women from the Kitengela rangelands area, which boarders the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, who have come together to form the Olmakao Cultural Village to provide alternative sources of income to their livestock-based livelihoods in the face of increasingly frequent droughts that have decimated their herds.

Multimedia
November 2010

What’s the future for Africa’s livestock herders as our climate changes, becomes less predictable, heats up? How can scientific research help remote pastoral communities? Among the poorest of the world’s poor, herders supply milk and meat not only for themselves but for large numbers of other poor people.

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