COMDEKS Project featured at CBD COP 11 IPSI Side Event On  11 October 2012, at the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), organized by the CBD Secretariat in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), India; the UNDP implemented COMDEKS was prominently featured at a side event on “Achievements … Continue reading →

The latest version of the booklet Indicators for Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes, developed by our colleagues in UNU-IAS, Satoyama Initiative and Bioversity International, is now available here. This project is led by the United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies and Bioversity International as a Collaborative Activity under the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI). This publication … Continue reading →

In September 24-26, 2011, an Inception Workshop was held in Accra, Ghana to launch the COMDEKS project with participants from eight of the eleven participarting countries, with UNU-IAS representing the ISPI collaborative activity partners. The workshop was opened by Prof. Alfred Oteng Yeboah, the Chair of the IPSI Steering Committee and a member of the … Continue reading →

The Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations University (UNU) jointly launched the Com munity De velopment and K nowledge Management for the S atoyama Initiative (COMDEKS) under the agreement on promoting biodiversity-friendly natural resource management practices … Continue reading →