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Table 11.2 Overview of the 7 CoCooN projects and consortia (leadership is underscored).

Composition and leadership

Project and
subject

South
research

North
research

South
non-research

North
non-research

1. Small-scale
gold mining

Univ. Federal de
Pará, Brazil

Centre for
Latin American
Research &
Documentation,
NL

World Wildlife Fund,
Guiana/Surinam

Solidaridad, NL

2. Jatropha curcas
in rural land use

AddisAbaba Univ.,
Ethiopia; Kwame
Nkrumah Univ. of
Science and
Technology,
Ghana

Univ. of British
Columbia,
Canada

Rural Environmental
Care Association,
Ghana

Both Ends, NL

3. Groundwater
in the Political
Domain

Mekelle Univ.,
Etiopia; Sana'a
Univ.,Yemen

Delft Univ. of
Technology,The
Netherlands

OromiaWater
Works Design and
Supervision
Enterprise, Ethiopia;
PalestinianWater
Authority, Palestine
Territories

MetaMeta,NL

4. Lands and
Rights in
Troubled
Waters

Centro de
Estudios Sociales,
Colombia; Univ.
Federal do Pará,
Brazil

University of
Utrecht,NL

CENSATAguaViva -
Friends of the Earth,
Colombia; Comissão
Pastoral da Terra,
Brazil

Dutch Section
Foodfirst
Information &
Action Network,
The Netherlands

5. Nationalisation
of extractive
industries

Universidad San
Francisco de
Quito, Ecuador

Institute of
Social Studies,
NL

League for the
Defense of the
Environment -
LIDEMA, Bolivia

HIVOS,The
Netherlands

6. Land acquisition
and dwindling
water resources

Moi Univ., Kenya Africa Studies

Centre,NL

IUCN-World
Initiative for
Sustainable
Pastoralism, Kenya

Cordaid,The
Netherlands

7. Reincorporating
the excluded in
small-scale
fisheries

Univ. of Cape
Town, South
Africa; Univ. of
Ruhuna, Sri Lanka;
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies, India;
Univ. of Jaffna,
Sri Lanka

University of
Amsterdam , NL;
Univ. of Ulster,
United Kingdom

Masifundise
Development Trust,
South Africa; South
Indian Federation of
Fishermen Societies,
India; National
Fisheries Solidarity,
Sri Lanka

Cordaid, NL

observations and activities that were reported after the first year of implementation
of the CoCooN projects. Table 11.1 (third column) gives a summary of these first
observations.
First, we present the CoCooN projects and the consortia that have been formed,
with an indication of team composition and leadership. Table 11.2 illustrates how
the consortia have been formed around subjects dealing with conflicts and natural