- Environment and Ecology - http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/eco.html
Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources
- AfriCover - http://www.africover.org/
FAO project dealing with land cover assessment for the African continent, based on remote sensing and GIS techniques.
- Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) - http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/
Meteorological Analyses, Cold Cloud Top Graphics and Animations, Precipitation Estimates, CPC Global Monitoring and Analysis Products.
- African Technology Forum - http://web.mit.edu/africantech/www/
Practical information on science and technology in Africa to corporations, individuals and institutions in the US, Africa and the rest of the world.
- Empowerment for African Sustainable Development - http://easd.org.za/
A private non-profit corporation focussing on the empowerment of African people and institutions operating in the area of environmental management and sustainable development.
- African Centre for Technology Studies - http://www.acts.or.ke/
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.
- USAID - AfricaLink - http://www.usaid.gov/alnk/
Provides technical ssistance to partner networks of African policy makers and scientists in agriculture, natural resource management and the environment.
- Participatory Development Communication: A West African Agenda - http://www.idrc.ca/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_ID=497&CATID=15
CIME is a development communication program that reflects the interrelations between Communication at the grassroots level, the exchange of Information, two-way Media, and nonformal Education. This online book presents the conceptual framework that led to the articulation of the CIME program.
- Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa - http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/sfb389/
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.
- Scientific African - http://www.scientific-african.com/
An African-located institute hoping to enhance the worldwide accessibility to scientific publications from Africa.
- Sustaining the Future: Economic, Social, and Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa - http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80918e/80918E00.htm
UNU Press online book. The authors were given the objectives of analysing the trends and processes of environmental change in Sub-Saharan Africa, and of identifying key issues for reaching sustainable environmental and resource management in the region within the medium-term future until around the year 2005.
- Chemistry in Africa - http://home.wanadoo.nl/ghirma.moges/cheminafrica.html
A resource for African Chemistry Departments, research and other organizations, plus databases for retrieval of the continent's scientific information.
- Science in Africa - http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/
A monthly magazine containing popular articles, research findings, events, scientific developments, and resources about science in Africa.
- Basel Convention Regional Centre Pretoria - http://www.baselpretoria.org.za
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.
- Africa Journals On Line (AJOL) - http://www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/
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.
- UNESCO Nairobi Office - http://www.unesco-nairobi.org/
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's Regional Office for sub-Saharan Africa. Information about programs, staff, online journals.
- Environmental Information System on the Internet - http://www.sisei.net/
Management tools for implementing legal instruments related to the environment in Africa. Includes text of environmental legal instruments, training modules (in PDF format), portals for West Africa, Benin, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, North Africa, Morocco.
- Arid Lands Information Network - http://www.alin.or.ke/
A network of Community Development Workers involved in drylands development. Information about activities, partners, publications, technologies.
- Food Supply Situation & Crop Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa - http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/GIEWS/ENGLISH/EAF/eaftoc.htm
Report of the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) that provides an assessment of the current food supply situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Articles in PDF format.
- Africa Resources Trust - http://www.art.org.zw/
Campaigns for the right of rural communities to benefit from sustainable use of their natural resources -- newsletter, projects, publications.
- African Journals Online - http://www.ajol.info/
Tables of contents and abstracts of articles from journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.
- Sustainable Africa - http://allafrica.com/sustainable/
Offers resources and links on water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity.
- Biosafety News - http://www.biosafetynews.com
Monthly publication on agriculture, health, environment, biotechnology, and related matters throughout Africa, especially Kenya. Full contents and archives online.
- Congo Basin Forest Partnership - http://www.cbfp.org/
Free association of public and private partners, working to reduce poverty and improve the lives of the Congo Basin's people through biodiversity, good governance and sustainable use and management.
- UNEP - The Eastern African Coastal Database - http://www.unep.org/easternafrica
Database provides access to environmental information in the region including documents, contacts, pictures, and maps. Comprehensive search functions.
- Resource Africa - http://www.resourceafrica.org/
Information on natural resource management in Africa, targeting academics and practitioners based in the region.
- EIS-Africa - http://www.eis-africa.org/
Network for the co-operative management of environment information for use in policy debate and decision making about sustainable development in Africa.
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - Africa - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-8554-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Canadian public corporation supporting projects in the developing world directed and managed by local researchers and institutions provides information about their work in Africa through their offices in Kenya and Senegal.
- African Journal of Biotechnology - http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/
Topics include nucleic acid research, subcellular processes and plant studies. Also, has preview of next issues, archives and article search. Includes abstracts and full text (in pdf).
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