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DEVECOL Geo e-Links/Africa pages magnify the dissemination and access to the partners' work by including links or full text of their documents in the . The current partners are information providers who are also actively engaged in sustainable rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and other continents by means of technical assistance, applied field research, and information dissemination.

Natural Resource Management Tracker.

This online database of NRM activities in Africa is being merged with the new FRAME site and will be linked to DEVECOL/Africa documents and maps on the Geo e-Links Africa pages.

Institute for Low External Input Agriculture

Publisher of the LEISA newsletter, the institute has agreed to the inclusion of articles from the newsletter in the DEVECOL/Africa digital library.

IIED Drylands Programme

This programme is working throughout Africa's dry regions, researching and improving ways to manage pastures, soils, and crops. The programme has worked in collaboration with CDCS, noted next, and has posted many of its reports on its web site in pdf format.

CDCS/International Cooperation Center's ISWC unit

This Dutch Center's Soil and Water ConservationUnit investigatedand promoted soil and water conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa during 1995-2002.The Center, located in the Free University of Amsterdam, collaborated with Development Ecology Information Service to place documents about site experiences in soil and water conservation it has fostered and researched throughout Africa into the DEVECOL./Africa digital library for access via the Geo e-Links/Africa pages.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

FAO's extensive library holdings contain a wealth of site-specific studies and reports, which are being converted to digital format for access on the FAO web site. These are being geo-referenced and linked to the Geo e-Links/Africa pages.