Thematic

  • -Tout-
  • Energy transition and resilient cities
  • Sustainable forests and agricultural lands
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Product life cycle, pollution and waste
  • AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
  • Aquatic ecosystems
  • Innovative financing of biodiversity
  • FOREST AND AGRICULTURAL LAND
  • Coastal and high seas management
  • POLLUTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
  • Innovative processes
  • Protection et valorisation de la biodiversité
  • Sustainable urban territories
In the media

Le Monde features the success of the first sustainable cocoa initiative In Côte d’Ivoire

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Le Monde has published a piece on an organic fair trade cocoa initiative in Côte d’Ivoire, showcasing the Société coopérative équitable du Bandama (SCEB) with its plans to extend organic production methods across the country. There were major obstacles facing the world's leading cocoa bean producing country, where the pursuit of yield can lure cocoa farmers away from sustainable production methods. SCEB’s achievement is part of the extensive “ÉQUITÉ” programme co-financed by the FFEM and AFD to expand fair trade throughout West Africa.
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Event

Meet the FFEM at the World Forestry Congress

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The XV World Forestry Congress opens on 2 May in Seoul, bringing together the leading players in the forestry sector to assess the current state of forests and their future. With the theme of “Building a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests”, this edition includes a full week of themed discussions, including sessions addressing “Managing and communicating forest information, data and knowledge”, where the FFEM will be speaking.

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In the media

Afrik21: An article on the FFEM’s latest collaboration with the PRCM

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The green economy and sustainable development media outlet, Afrik21, looked at one of the projects recently financed by the FFEM. On 29 March, the FFEM and the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of Coastal and Marine Areas (PRCM) cemented their commitment by signing the RESILAO project to protect coastal ecosystems in West Africa, pledging €2.6 million.
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Event Project

The FoFauPopU project : a biological study reveals the impact of pollution on chimpanzees

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On this World Health Day, come back to the "One Health" approach with a new study by the National Museum of Natural History. As part of the FoFauPopU project supported by the FFEM, this study evaluates the impact of environmental pollution on wildlife, and in particular, on chimpanzees. To achieve this, the Sebitioli Chimpanzee Project’s research team employed a biosurveillance method on chimpanzee pelts that is normally used for human hair.
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