Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge Grant
Organization - Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Grant Amount - $146,000
Foundation -
Rockefeller FoundationGrant Purpose - in support of a multidisciplinary research and learning mobile workshop focused on understanding and predicting land-use trends, in view of regional development plans, in the uplands of Yunnan Province in China, Lao PDR and Thailand
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