NGOs, foundations, institutions in Japan

Africa-Japan Forum
http://www.zzz.or.jp/^kazutiyo/AJF.html

OISCA
http://oisca.org/


Ministry of the Environment (Then, Environment Agency) - Government of Japan
http://www.env.go.jp/en/earth/desert/leaflet_gd/index_1_1.html/

Plaza for International Cooperation
http://www.apic.or.jp/plazaeg/index.html
You can get here various information about international cooperation activities of both public and private sectors.

Association for International Cooperation of Agriculture
http://www.aicaf.or.jp/indexe.htm
The AICAF was a non-profit organization which promote international cooperation between Japan and developing countries in the areas of agriculture and forestry.

National Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.nies.go.jp/

Center for Global Environmental Research
http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/index.html
The Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) is a governmental organization, belonging to the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Environment Agency of Japan.

The United Nations University, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme
http://www.unu.edu/env/index.htm

Global Environment Centre Foundation(GEC)
http://www.unep.or.jp/gec/

Tokyo University, labolatory of landscape ecology and planning
http://www.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/las/index-e.html

Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University
http://160.15.45.11/e_txt/enindex.html

The Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
http://www.maff.go.jp/

Action for Greening Sahel
http://jca.ax.apc.org/~sahel/engprof/engprof.html
Action for Greening Sahel, together with the people of the Sahel, is working to stop desertification, the loss of any more green, and then to reverse it -- to restore the natural ecology, allowing the people of the region to again be self-sufficient in their production of food.

Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA)
http://www.jica.go.jp/

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
(JIRCAS)
http://ss.jircas.affrc.go.jp/



International Organizations
CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)
http://www.cgiar.org/secretar.htm

Convention on Biological Diversity
http://www.biodiv.org/

Danish, Kyle W. (1995): International Environmental Law and the "Bottom-up" Approach: A Review of the Desertification Convention, Indiana Journal Of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1
http://www.law.indiana.edu/glsj/vol3/no1/danish.html

Desert Research Institute
http://www.dri.edu/

FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization)
http://www.fao.org/default.htm

Green Cross International
http://www4.gve.ch/gci/default.html

Indonesia, Environmental Impact Management Agency(BAPEDAL)
http://www.bapedal.go.id/

Institut de Recherche pour Developpement: IRD
http://www.ird.fr/fr/

International Fund for Agricultural Development(IFAD)
http://www.ifad.org/home.html

IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development)
http://www.iisd.ca/vol04/

IISD Internet Resources for the Convention to Combat Desertification
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/desert/desertsites.html

RIO (Institut de Recherche pur le developpement)
http://www.rio.org/

RIOD (The International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought)
http://riod.utando.com/

The World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org/

UNCCD - United Nations Interim Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification
http://www.unccd.de/

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme - Sustainable Human Development
http://www.undp.org/

UNEP/GRID, World Atlas of Desertification
http://www.unep.org/unep/eia/ein/grid/nairobi/atlas/

UNSO(UNDP Office to Combat Desertification and Drought)


University of Arizona Office of Arid Land Studies
http://ag.arizona.edu/oals/

Cooperation by Haruo Miyata

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