NCCR North South Central Asia

Regional Coordination Office would like to announce the third regional policy brief for Central Asia, titled “Sustaining mobile pastoralists in the mountains of northern Pakistan”.
For centuries, landless mobile pastoralists have produced milk, meat, wool, maintained biodiversity, and conserved the soil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. But the provision of these goods and services is at risk as the pastoralists are …

The National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR North-South announces an International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD 2012) ‘Research for Global Transformation’ to be held in Bern, Switzerland, 20-22 August 2012
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The Regional Coordination Office of the NCCR North-South in Central Asia would like to announce the Regional workshop “Landless Mobile Pastoralists: Securing their Role as Custodians of Northern Pakistan’s Mountains”. The workshop will take place in Islamabad, Pakistan from 24-26 April 2012.
The Landless Pastoralist Research Project (LPRP) is a three year project funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNSF) and …

Regional Coordination Office is pleased to announce the second regional policy brief for Central Asia, titled “It’s time to control brucellosis in Central Asia”.
Brucellosis is a livestock disease that is transmissible to humans, so is of major public health concern. Industrialised countries have eliminated brucellosis with massive financial and technical interventions, but these are currently not feasible in Central Asian …