The purpose of this page is to provide useful information and to stimulate critical thinking and discussion. Inclusion of a particular link does not necessarily imply endorsement of or agreement with a particular planning, development, economic, political, or sociological paradigm, model, or philosophy.

Development of appropriate theory and practice for Cabo Verde must take into account the unique geographical, ecological, historical and cultural factors which differentiate Cabo Verde. The evaluation and application of information found in the sites below must take into account this uniqueness.

 
Links to International Organizations

UN  - UNICC  - UNEP  - UNDP  - UNESCO  - UNICEF  - IFAD  - FAO  - World Bank  - ACDI/VOCA  - IALC  - IISD  - Solstice  - CIESIN  - Greenpeace  - IDSA  - WHO  - SatelLife  - ICRC  - IICD  - IGC  - USAID  - GCRIO  - USCSP  - Peace Corps

 
Development

• Letter on Africa Trade (WOA)
• ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States
• Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa

• IISDnet - International Institute for Sustainable Development
• IICD - Institute for International Cooperation and Development
• USAID/ Cape Verde - Program Description
• Africa: Trade Issue Brief, 12/16/'95
• Small Islands and Trade: Economic Choices, Environmental Impacts
• Technology for Africa
• African Economy in 1994 and Prospects for 1995 (Layashi Yaker)
• World Bank - Search on "Cape Verde"
• World Bank - Indicators of Development, 1994
• World Bank 1996 regional perspectives - Africa
• Women, Legal Reform and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - (World Bank)
• Youth Source Book on Sustainable Development
• Cape Verde Minister Empahasizes Link Between Poverty and Land Degradation

• Tourism
  • Small Islands and Tourism: Finding a Balance
  • Cape Verde: Emerging Tourism Destination - Loiuse Werlin

 
Energy

Cape Verde Points of Contact - (from World Energy Efficiency Association )
• Electrical Energy
  • INESC - The SOLARGIS Project - Integration of Renewable Energies for Decentralized Electricity Production in Regions of EEC and Developing Countries

• Oil Importation
  MBendi's Cape Verde Oil Industry Profile

• Solar and Wind Energy
  • Curacao Windfarm Report
  • Wind Energy Weekly
  • Solar Cooking Archives
  • Introducing Solar Ovens to Rural Kenya

• Wave Energy

• Exotic Technology
  • Realistic Self-Sufficient Ocean Complexes using Deep Ocean Water as a Resource

 
Environment and Ecosystem

• Climate Change
  • CIESIN - Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
  • Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) - includes treaties in force for CV.
  • US Global Change Research Information Office
  • U.S. Country Studies Program
  • Global Change Data (National Geophysical Data Center)

• Desertification and Drought
  • IALC: International Arid Lands Consortium Home Page
  • Sahel Weather and Crop Situation 1996 w/Cabo Verde
  • International Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought
  • Convention to Combat Desertification - Formal Articles
  • Desertification
  • African Wave Disturbances and African Drought
  • GIS Techniques to Improve Monitoring of Desertification

• Coastal Zone Protection and Management
  • NETCOAST - A Guide to Integrated Coastal Zone Management
  • Coastal Zone Typology
  • COSMO - Coastal Zone Simulation Model
  • US CZM Program
  • Living on the Coast - The Commonwealth Coastal Policy (Australia)

• Fisheries and Reef Protection and Management
  • Cape Verde Fishery Profile
  • Fishing for a Living - Raymond Almeida
  • Small islands and fishing: caught in a global squeeze
  • FAO Fisheries Department
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Field Reports
    • Munro, Dorothy M. A case study of marine management systems in Pukapuka Atoll, Cook Islands. FAO Field Report. RAS/92/TO5. No. 96/2. Rome, FAO. 1996. 68p.
    • Fong, G. Case studyof a traditional marine management system: Sasa village, Macuata Province, Fiji. FAO Field Report. RAS/92/TO5. No. 94/1. Rome, FAO. 1994. 85p.
  • The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. Rome, FAO. 1995.
  • Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP)

  • International Coral Reef Initiative
  • The International Year of the Reef
  • Coral Health and Monitoring Program Home Page
  • CORAL:The Coral Reef Alliance

• Hazardous Waste Protection
  • Bamako Convention on the Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (1991)
  • Greenpeace MV Solo/Nuclear Waste Shipment Tracking Report - March 3, 1995 - 265 mile NW of Cape Verde Islands and Track

• Air and Sky Quality Protection
  • International Dark-Sky Association

• Flora and Fauna
  • 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
  • Fuelwood Scarcity and Forest Policy on Santo Antao, Cabo Verde

 
Agriculture and Aquaculture

• UN FAO/GIEWS - Cape Verde Crop Situation
• UN FAO/GIEWS - Extensive companion data base on agriculture, food, and nutrition in Cape Verde - many statistics and graphs. (In French)
• SANREM CRSP (Sustainable Agriculture and Natural
  Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program)
• Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) - Youth Page

 
Food Production, Importation and Exportation

• ACDI - Agricultural Cooperative Development International / Cape Verde

 
Transportation

• Integrated Transport Planning in Curitiba, Brazil

• Bicycles
  • Replogle: NMVs in Asia

 
Construction

• Environmental Impacts of Common Building Materials

 
Education

• World Rural Women's Day - Oct 15 - FAO
  "Investment in educating women and girls has the highest rate of return of any possible type of investment in developing nations."