Ecosystem Services and Land Use, is a research centre (ECOLAND)

ECOLAND, or Ecosystem Services and Land Use, is a research centre based at Royal University of Agriculture (RUA), Cambodia. It was created in January 2014 in cooperation between the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in France and RUA. Its main goal is to provide scientific activities on topics related to “ecosystem services, rural development, land use management, and conservation”. Besides research activities, the centre aims at contributing to curriculum development and human resources capacity building at Royal University of Agriculture.