#useful links: #research websites
#These are links to websites that we have found useful. If you have a site that we should consider adding to this list, please contact us.
- COMACO - Community Markets for Conservation
COMACO is an initiative of the Zambia field programme of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS, working in close consultation with Community Resources Boards of Luangwa Valley, District Council authorities, and key Government institutions. Its objectives are to provide marketing services, trade benefits, and extension support for farm-based and natural resource-based commodities as a basis for adopting improved land use practices that promote natural resource conservation.
www.itswild.org - Forest Governance Learning Group
The forest governance learning group, coordinated by IIED, works in Africa and Asia to exchange learning and develop ideas on forest governance - and helps to make them work for practical, just and sustainable forest use.
www.iied.org/NR/forestry/projects/forest.html - ODI Bushmeat
ODI Bushmeat is the project website for the Overseas’s Development Institutes project on Wild meat, livelihoods security and conservation in the tropics .
www.odi-bushmeat.org - Policy Powertools
Policy Powertools is a website hosted by IIED that introduces a range of Power Tools – "how-to" ideas that marginalised people and their allies can use to have a greater positive influence on natural resources policy.
www.policy-powertools.org - Poverty and Conservation Working Group
The Poverty and Conservation Working Group (PCWG) is a UK research network concerned with the linkages between biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction
www.povertyandconservation.net - Poverty Mapping
Poverty Mapping is a site hosted by UNEP/GRID-Arendal that includes case studies, graphics and publications relating to poverty mapping. This includes work on poverty-conservation mapping.
www.povertymap.net
#(text at the bottom of links page)