Member Projects and Initiatives

Current projects and opportunities for collaboration

E-Development — by Stanzin Tonyot — last modified 2006-06-01 17:43

BARA's new e-development initiative explores how various web-assisted models of development models may be used to enhance livelihoods of the impoverished and marginalized populations of the world.

link to - Bahamas Project — by Stanzin Tonyot — last modified 2006-12-06 18:20

The purpose of this study is to determine why people in the Exumas Islands and Cays, located in the central Bahamas, have responded differentially to the proposed establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) near their settlements.

Niger Direct — by Stanzin Tonyot — last modified 2006-06-01 17:43

Niger Direct is a community-led initiative based at the University of Arizona in Tucson that provides emergecny aid directly to communities in Niger hit hard by the food crisis. The team is composed of individuals with experience in poverty alleviation in West Africa, including experts in food and livelihood security, public health and community development.

Projecto Maplan — by Stanzin Tonyot — last modified 2006-06-01 17:43

BARA faculty with colleagues from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Latin American Studies initiated a NOAA-funded project in Ceará to examine how policy-makers and society in general had derived benefits from a heavy investment in a state-based climate forecasting capacity.

Gulf Oil Project — by Stanzin Tonyot — last modified 2006-06-01 17:43

The Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona partnered with community researchers to gather oral histories from workers, family members, community leaders, and others whose lives were shaped by the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana.

Ambos/Nogales Revegetation — by Stanzin Tonyot — last modified 2006-06-01 17:43

The Asociación de Reforestación en Ambos Nogales (ARAN:Ambos Nogales Revegetation Partnership) aims to increase the planting and maintenance of native vegetation and the incorporation of water harvesting principles in order to reduce erosion, increase habitat, and reestablish communities of native vegetation within the communities of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora.