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The restoration of coral reefs: Le Monde reports on the Shark Fin Bay project
Since 2020, the FFEM has supported the Sulubaaï Foundation in restoring the coral reefs in Shark Fin Bay, alongside the local people and villages, on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Palawan...
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The Small-scale Initiatives Programme on RFI
In this edition of "C’est pas du vent", Paul Estève, head of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) at the French Committee of the IUCN, explains the programme’s action principles. Since 2006, th...
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Le Monde features the success of the first sustainable cocoa initiative In Côte d’Ivoire
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 me...
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Afrik21: An article on the FFEM’s latest collaboration with the PRCM
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 Conservatio...
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The WEEECAM project handling electrical and electronic equipment waste featured in Le Monde
Le Monde has just published an article on the “ecological time bomb” that waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) represents in Cameroon. The article described the WEEECAM project - supp...
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FFEM-supported project to combat coastal erosion in Senegal cited in Jeune Afrique
This issue of the pan-African weekly news magazine looked at solutions to combat coastal erosion in Senegal, including fencing made from typha reeds, as used in an FFEM-supported project.
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The Cocoa of Excellence project on RFI
The FFEM-supported “Cocoa of Excellence” project in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador was featured on the Spanish language programme “Escala en París” on Radio France Internationale (RFI).
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Tropical Forest & Rural Development (TF-RD), a 2021 Equator Prize winner
Tropical Forest & Rural Development, a long-term partner of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) supported by the FFEM, is one of the 10 winners of the 2021 Equator Prize. Organised by the Unit...
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The FoFauPopU project featured on “La Terre au Carré”
Broadcaster France Inter dedicated an entire programme on La Terre au Carré to the topic of imported deforestation, interviewing 2 FFEM partners: Sabrina Krief, primatologist at France’s Natural Histo...
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The Deng Deng project cited in the Cameroon daily l’Economie
The daily l’Economie featured the signing ceremony for the great apes conservation project in the Deng Deng National Park, supported by the FFEM.
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WEEECAM project featured on Telesud TV
The project for sustainable management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in Cameroon (WEEECAM) was featured in a report on Telesud, the French language pan-African television network
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Shark Fin Bay project featured in Ouest-France news
Reporting on the FFEM financing agreement for the project to restore coral reefs in Shark Fin Bay in the Philippines, Ouest France highlights awareness-raising among the local communities
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Coastal risks: FFEM on Senegalese TV channel TFM
The TFM news programme focuses on the problem of coastal erosion in Senegal and mentions an FFEM soft solutions project
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Zembo project cited on Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle headline “Uganda’s motorbikes go green”; a look back at the Zembo project, supported by the FFEM, in a report broadcast by Deutsche Welle on 12 May 2020.
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Interview on RFI: Costa Rica – Benin, a South-South mobilisation to save the mangroves
Janique Etienne, Head of marine and coastal ecosystems at the FFEM, was interviewed on “C’est pas du vent”, RFI’s environmental magazine, broadcast on 16 April.
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Libération: “Giving deforestation in Colombia the chop”
First published in Libération on 21 August 2019, this article revisits the sustainable forestry planning project in the Colombian Pacific region, supported by the FFEM, the EU and ONF Andina (French N...
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