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Patrice Burger : “Agroecology must be on the agenda if it’s to become a tool recommended by the COP”
The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification starts this Monday 9 May in Abidjan, one week after publication of the latest UNCCD report. According...
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Ocean Plankton Project conference: towards new governance for the oceans
On 23 June 2022, ahead of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) and the Tara Ocean Foundation invited scientists and key players in ocean gov...
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Evaluation overview of the project "Guatemala City Green Belt"
The 44 municipalities which comprise the city’s wider metropolitan area are home to 25% of the country’s population and also constitute Central America’s most populous conurbation. The extensive urban...
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Activity report 2018-2019
For 25 years, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) has been financing projects that combine environmental conservation with local development in the global South. Our initiatives are squa...
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Freshwater ecosystems: eutrophication and cyanobacteria
Eutrophication of surface waters on the African continent is accelerating, due to the cumulative effect of population growth and associated anthropogenic pollution, and climate change risks further am...
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Overview of participatory science for the sustainable management of natural resources in the protected areas o...
This document is one of the final deliverables of the RENFORESAP project about participatory science for the sustainable management of natural resources. The project runs for three years (2018-2021) w...
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Energy transition and resilient cities at FFEM
Since its creation in 1994, Energy transition and resilient cities have remained two of the FFEM’s priority action areas. These will be highlighted in 2021 through a number of international events, su...
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REDD+ at project scale - assessment and development guide
The guide to REDD+ at project scale was produced by ONF International and presented at COP 16 in Cancun. It was developed with the BioCarbon Fund, the Regional Delegation for Cooperation in the Southe...
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2015 FISP-Climat Brochure
This publication produced in June 2015 presents the FISP-Climat facility, which aims to promote innovations in the sector of climate change, led by private actors and developed in an eligible country,...
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Innovative local initiatives for the resilience of ecosystems and populations
The development of West Africa’s coastal zone is causing environmental degradation with adverse consequences for biodiversity and coastal communities. To slow - or even reverse -this trend the FFEM is...
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Bioelectricity and Savannah Restoration in Namibia
The project aims to promote sustainable bush clearing practices to restore grazing lands, improve soil fertility, and enhance environmental and social benefits. By optimizing biomass supply to the Otj...
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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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The FoFauPopU project : a biological study reveals the impact of pollution on chimpanzees
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 evaluate...
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PRCM Forum: signature of the Resilao project for the protection of the West African coastal regions
On 28 March 2022, in a side event at the 10th edition of the Regional Coast and Marine Forum, the FFEM signed a financing agreement with the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of the Coastal an...
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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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Our themed brochures
In January 2023, the FFEM published its new 2023–2026 strategy and defined its new priority themes in support of the environment and development. Since then, it has released five brochures presenting...
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Marine ecosystems: conservation of the biodiversity of deep-sea seamounts
The FFEM publishes a new guide on the conservation of biodiversity in offshore seamounts. This book is a synthesis of the results obtained by the project “Conservation and sustainable exploitation of...
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Guide on implementing and managing pastoral units in Senegal.
To address the large number of approaches to implementing pastoral units, in 2017 Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières, under the co-ordination of the Ministry of Livestock and Animal Production,...
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The new brochure presenting intersecting capitalisation in PPI and PPI OSCAN programmes
Over 330 projects have been financed since the launch of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) in 2006 and the PPI OSCAN (North African civil society organisations) in 2014. The FFEM, IUCN Frenc...
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Pollution and waste management at FFEM
Since its creation in 1994, pollution and waste management has remained one of the FFEM’s priority action areas. This will be particularly showcased in 2021 through a number of international events, s...
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