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Bioelectricity and Savannah Restoration in Namibia
The OBPS project (Otjikoto Biomass Power Station) aims to promote sustainable bush clearing practices to restore grazing lands, improve soil fertility, and enhance environmental and social benefits. B...
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Integrating environmental risk into sovereign ratings
The financial company Beyond Ratings has developed a methodology integrating environmental risk into sovereign ratings. The objective is to help build a new economic model and channel investments towa...
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Ecological compensation to reconcile development and biodiversity
Arguably, some of the environmental impacts of the extractive industries and major development works are irreducible. In these cases, ecological compensation may be used to reconcile economic developm...
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Resilience to climate change through an ecosystem-based approach (PEBACC+)
Marine and coastal ecosystems play a key role in the economy and biodiversity of the Pacific Islands, but today are particularly threatened by climatic disruption. To bolster the resilience of these i...
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Agrivoltaic solutions to generate electricity and reduce water stress
Since 1960, Morocco has suffered a pronounced rise in average temperatures and a worrying fall in precipitation. To generate electricity while also reducing water stress, the FFEM is supporting an agr...
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Promoting agroecology for more sustainable agricultural and food systems
In response to local demographic and economic challenges, agriculture in the Mekong region has shifted towards specialization and intensification. A choice whose impact on the environment raises quest...
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Territorial Approach: A Lever for Socio-environmental Resilience (Resilient Territories)
Due to increasing anthropogenic pressures, three African landscapes of high biodiversity importance face a threatened future. To support the affected ecosystems and communities, this FFEM-backed proje...
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Adapting family-run production systems to climate change through agroecology in Bolivia
In Bolivia, the CIPCA NGO is promoting sustainable family-run agriculture to respond to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity degradation and food security. The initiative, supported by the F...
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Multi-stakeholder partnership for the sustainable management of protected areas in the Indo-Burma hotspot 2
Conserving biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem services and reducing local poverty in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, involving local communities and the private sector.
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Ensure development of all the North Congo landscape
The Congo basin is one of the world’s richest forest regions in terms of biodiversity and resources. Exploitation of the forest there is critical to economic development, and its sustainability is ess...
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Natural Resource Management Program in Vulnerable Areas in Tunisia
Rural regions play an essential socio-economic role in Tunisia, but depend on natural resources threatened by over-exploitation and climate change. To support their development, the FFEM is supporting...
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Support for the integrated management of the bays of Hai Phong, Ha Long and Bai Tu Long
Contributing to the sustainable development of Ha Long Bay, Bai Tu Long Bay and the Hai Phong estuary, by developing integrated coastal zone management in these three areas based on a “bay contract” a...
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REDD+ integrated program in the forest region in the South-West of the Central African Republic
Contributing to the administrative, economic, social and ecological implementation of the REDD+ national strategy of the Central African Republic.
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Sustainable refrigerators accessible to all
In Benin, the company Qotto plans to distribute solar-powered refrigerators to thousands of homes in rural areas.
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Promoting and formalising artisanal wood logging to reduce forest degradation
In Central Africa unregulated artisanal wood logging is endangering state-led efforts to sustainably manage the forestry resources. To reduce the resulting impact on forest degradation, the FFEM is su...
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Optimizing the production of goods and services by Mediterranean wooded ecosystems in a context of global changes
In a context of strong global changes, the project aims to encourage stakeholders to manage and / or restore Mediterranean woodlands with a perspective of sustainable supply of environmental goods and...
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Towards collaborative sustainable management of agropastoral resources
The FFEM is supporting Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières (AVSF) in delivering the Dundi Ferlo project. Project goals: to restore degraded land in the regions of Louga and Matam, and to support...
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Manual on reinforcing the skill-sets of pastoral units in Senegal
Pastoral livestock is essential to the survival of communities, as it allows them to develop and maintain otherwise unusable land. This is the situation in the Ferlo region of north-eastern Senegal, w...
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FFEM and Desertification: From Local Innovation to Global Solutions
How can local initiatives be transformed into global solutions to address desertification? Desertification is advancing in many regions of the world, driven by the combined effects of climate chang...
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Typha, an Invasive Reed as a Renewable Fuel and Eco-Material
The Typha Combustible Construction West Africa (TyCCAO) project contributes to the energy transition and the fight against climate change by promoting the use of renewable biofuels and energy efficien...
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