Building on lessons learned from the first phase of the SANREM CRSP / Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (see separate entry), the West Africa Project (SANREM-WA) is working to support natural resource decision-makers at multiple scales with appropriate data, tools and methods for analysis and capacity building to make decisions concerning conflict and NRM problems associated with the agricultural and pastoral systems of West Africa.
SANREM WA has built as a database of documents pertaining to sustainable development in developing countries with a focus on the West African/Sahel region and other arid and semi-arid regions. Topics include:
- sustainable agricultural and natural resource management
- conflict resolution
- small-scale and subsistence farming systems (sedentary, agro-pastoral, nomadic pastoralism)
- policy/planning
- religion
- socio-economic dimensions
It also includes a wide range of workforms consisting of journal articles,books, book chapters, dissertations, government documents and conference reports.