Promotes the protection, health and sustainability of African forests and forest environments.

Offers the contents and abstracts from journals published in Africa in order to promote the awareness and use of African journals in the fields of agricultural sciences, arts, culture and literature, health, science and technology, and social sciences.

Tables of contents and abstracts of articles from journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.

FAO project dealing with land cover assessment for the African continent, based on remote sensing and GIS techniques.

A network of Community Development Workers involved in drylands development. Information about activities, partners, publications, technologies.

American Association for the Advancement of Science Africa Project: focusses on improving access for African researchers to scientific and technical information, on encouraging other aspects of scientific capacity-building, on articulating research and policy agendas for critical issues facing African science and society, and on promoting productive collaborative ties between US and African scientists and their institutions.

African rainforest conservation documents and archived news.

Campaigns for the right of rural communities to benefit from sustainable use of their natural resources -- newsletter, projects, publications.

Descriptions and maps.

Summary Proceedings of the UNU/INRA Regional Workshop. Accra, Ghana - March 1998.

African studies links page.

A division of USAID that supports regional networks of African policy makers and scientists in agriculture, natural resource management, and the environment.

An international inter-governmental policy research and training organization located in Nairobi, Kenya. The Centre's activities focus on the implementation of Agenda 21 and related conventions on biological diversity, climate change and desertification.

Proceedings, summaries and case studies: August, 1996.

A list compiled by the AAAS in 1998.

Practical information on science and technology in Africa to corporations, individuals and institutions in the US, Africa and the rest of the world.

Links to current news stories from around the continent.

Links to current news from around the continent.

Research on the historical development of the African continent and its people during the last 12,000 years in light of the complex interrelation between Man and changing environmental conditions.

Aims to assist in building the legal, institutional and technological capacity of English-speaking African countries, enabling the management of hazardous waste in an environmentally sound manner as provided in the Basel Convention.

CEIKA's objective is to build African capacity for environmental management through the provision of relevant training and multi-media information and knowledge products.

A resource for African Chemistry Departments, research and other organizations, plus databases for retrieval of the continent's scientific information.

Columbia University - Area Studies

Network of practitioners, institutes, donor agencies, international and regional organizations from nine African countries. Includes distance learning resource and newsletter.

Information on CODESRIA activities, research, workshops and awards. (French and English.)