Where is research on desertification and climatic change in Africa being undertaken?

Question

My 19-year-old cousin is a sophmore in college who has decided he wants to work toward ending hunger in Africa. One of his ideas is to work toward sustainable development in these regions, and he wants to study the ecology of the region.

Can you recommend a good school for this, and a good agency, company or NGO that would help him gain experience?

Thank you.

Answer 1

That's a laudable purpose. Here are some links to agencies involved in research about this problem.

International Development Research Centre: a Canadian private corporation that offers research programs and funding:
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

FIELD online, a tool for finding financial information related to land degradation. Here's the link to search African projects:
http://www.gm-unccd.org/FIELD/Regions/Africa/Africa.htm

The Department of Geography at the University of Maryland seems to have interesting courses referred to global changes and desertification:
http://www.geog.umd.edu/academic/gradprogram.html

And a great site listing all types of resources:
http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln40/WebResources.html

I hope this helps :-)