Alleviating Poverty Through Social Entrepreneurship

Maisam Najafizada, Assistant Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Maurie Cohen, Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia

Central Asia and Afghanistan Research Fellowships (CAARF) were awarded by
the University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Institute to qualified
researchers from Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan. Fellows’
research was centered around learning from and for sustainable development
in mountain societies of the Tien Shan, Pamir and Hindu Kush ranges in
Central Asia, with a special focus on environmental change, natural resources
governance, and the social and economic impacts of mountain development.