American Museum of Natural History (Affiliation. See Notes.) Grant

Organization - American Museum of Natural History (Affiliation. See Notes.)
Grant Amount - $100,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - for use by its Center for Biodiversity and Conservation toward the costs of a project, "New Understandings and New Directions in the Study of Humans and the Environment: From Providing Basic Needs to Preserving Cultural and Biological Diversity," which seeks to examine the interplay among cultural, social and environmental concerns in water resources, sustainable agriculture, and cultural, linguistic and biological diversity


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