Mission and Objectives CTA's mission is spelt out in Annex III of the Cotonou Agreement : “To strengthen policy and institutional capacity development and information and communication management capacities of ACP agricultural and rural development organis

Femsud Consult is a private company registered early in 1999. Femsud plays an intermediary role - to ensure good communication between the North and South. Femsud was established to contribute to the fight against acute poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, and

Wie zijn wij? De Vlinderstichting is een natuurbeschermingsorganisatie die zich sterk maakt voor het behoud en herstel van vlinders en libellen in Nederland en Europa. De medewerkers worden daarbij geholpen door meer dan 2000 vrijwilligers. Financieel word

... and Forest Management (FEM) Group of Wageningen University deals with fundamental and

Aim and task The central issues of our group are : the aquatic ecosystem the ecological function of lakes and rivers the physical-chemical quality of fresh waters and sediments the impact of water quality on human use of surface water, including diversity

The past two decades have brought a fundamental change in the world view of the sciences of the Earth. We have become aware that global change cuts across all components of the Earth System: solid earth, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans. The overall missi

Systems analysis is a quantitative and multidisciplinary research field aimed at combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge from natural and social sciences, and technology. Environmental systems analysis is the application of systems analysis in

The Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FNP) focuses on policy, governance and management with regard to forests, biodiversity and nature. The research and teaching activities aim at providing insights in the dynamics of private and public decisio

The research of this group focusses on catchment-scale hydrological processes and river basin water management. With respect to hydrology special emphasis is put on the development of physically-based and conceptual models of surface and subsurface flow pr

The Irrigation & Water Engineering Group is committed to understanding all there is to water in agriculture. Irrigation - from farm to watershed level - is our main focus. We argue that water flows do not only follow hydraulic laws. It is true that pumps a