NRSP was one of 10 bilateral research programmes, funded from 1995-2006 under the Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The RNRRS aimed to generate new knowledge in natural and social sciences and to promote its use for the benefit of poor people whose livelihoods depend on natural resources (NRs). NRSP’s task was to develop both an understanding of these livelihoods and broad-based management strategies to improve them.