(PLEA) is a research, training, and service program of the African Studies Center of Michigan State University in collaboration with the fisheries research institutes of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. PLEA does research on Lakes Victoria and Malawi on the Anthropology and Sociology of fisheries management and development, women and gender,environmental policy, the socioeconomic impacts of species introductions, and relations of production . PLEA trains African and international scholars in fisheries socioeconomics and provides bibliographic databases, conferences, and consultancies.
 

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Research

• Fragile Lakes, Fragile Lands: Research on the Sustainable Human Uses and Management of Two Transnational Lakes of East Africa (Malawi and Victoria) - A Project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
• Earth Sensing Resources for Policy-Relevant Socioeconomic Research on the Lakes and Lake Basins of East Africa.

Training

• Applied Social Science of Development for the East African Aquatic Resources: A Short-term Training Project
• Socioeconomic Training for East African Fisheries Policy and Research - A Long-term (M.A. and Ph.D.) Training Project

Service

• Conferences on Policy Issues in the Fragile Lakes and Lake Basins of East Africa
• The Lake Victoria Documentation Project
• Consultation and Outreach

This page was made by Doug Wilson DW@IFM.DK Last updated 3/29/0