Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP)

 

Year: Phase III, 2004 - 2009
Grant #: USAID Grant Cooperative Agreement No. EPP-A-00-00013-00
Grant Amount: $12 million
Location: Worldwide
URL: http://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/
 

Phase III research focuses on the implementation of multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research that leads to improved livelihoods and expanded trade opportunities and capacities for stakeholders.

               
SANREM CRSP promotes stakeholder empowerment through knowledge - based sustainable agriculture and natural resource management systems. Activities are organized into an innovative nested landscape    systems   approach   that   targets   key makers and builds an action-oriented knowledge base for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management stakeholders. This integrated systems approach demonstrates how gender, biophysical, technological, governance, economic, social, environmental, and global factors can be linked to achieve sustainable development.

As the Management Entity (ME) for the SANREM CRSP, OIRED/Virginia Tech provides overall leadership to projects based at a variety of U.S. universities and developing country institutions. SANREM provides access to appropriate data, knowledge, tools and methods of analysis, to improve decision making capacity, livelihoods, and natural resource sustainability. The work is research-based, but researchers work actively with local people in targeted areas to identify and implement sustainable livelihood solutions.

Current Long-Term Research Activities target decentralized management of forest resources, agricultural markets for livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, watershed management for small-scale agriculture, natural resource property rights regimes, agroforestry, and sustainable production practices and strategies for vulnerable agro-ecosystems. This work involves collaboration with international and host country research institutions, the private sector, NGOs, and community leaders in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zambia.. SANREM also facilitates integration into USAID Mission strategic frameworks, providing for a good "fit" and adding value that furthers the goals of both SANREM and the American people.