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Support and fortify fishing activities in Senegal
An activity essential to socio-economic balance in Senegal, fishing suffers the full impact of climate change. With the support of the FFEM, Valorem plans to test out a solar-powered cold room solutio...
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Leverage the prickly pear to adapt to climate change
Aridity is a major challenge for farmers in Morocco. Confronted with this issue, the prickly pear offers great potential as it only needs a little water. Atlas Inclusive Partners has benefited from FF...
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Desalinate seawater using solar energy
Water supply is a major issue for small island communities. To address this, the solar-powered seawater desalination technology developed by the company Mascara enables the production of drinking wate...
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Promote the development of a local photovoltaic industry for the industrial sector.
Fuel oil and gas are the traditional fuels powering industry: that is the case for the cement plant owned by Sococim Industries, the Senegalese subsidiary of the French group Vicat. To address its gro...
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A network of community solar lighting systems to facilitate access to electricity in Casamance
Despite Senegal’s significant solar potential, only 56.5% of the population had access to electricity in 2016. With financial support from the FFEM, the company Sunna Design installed community solar...
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Ensure access to renewable electricity and essential services through a floating tidal stream turbine
600 million people in Africa have no access to electricity. To combat this energy insecurity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the FFEM is supporting a pilot project to install a tidal stream t...
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Setting up workshops for locally manufacturing green products in Africa
The French company Lagazel manufactures quality solar products in Africa, particularly lamps, enabling large-scale development and distribution of “green” equipment. The project is supported by the FF...
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Conservation and innovative financing of high forest cover
The Amazon forest contains “vital reserves”, areas rich in both irrecoverable carbon and biodiversity. The FFEM’s support to four Amazon countries aims to encourage the emergence of innovative and sus...
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The 2026 Regional Marine and Coastal Forum: Ocean Health at the Heart of Future Solutions
In response to the climate emergency and the degradation of marine ecosystems, West Africa is taking action. From April 27 to 30, 2026, in Nouakchott, Mauritania, the Regional Partnership for the Cons...
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FISP Climat : Production of renewable energy and organic fertiliser from purification
The project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of an industrial production of biogas, by fermentation of latrine sludge.
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Marine ecosystems: Mangroves, coastal anchorages
The current ecological crisis marked by a significant degradation of ecosystems in a context of global change requires stronger and more sustainable protection of coral reefs and mangroves, which are...
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Publication of a Guide on Coral Reefs
The current ecological crisis, marked by significant degradation of ecosystems in a context of global change, calls for stronger and more sustainable protection of coral reefs and mangroves—hotspots o...
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Marine ecosystems in climate regulation
This book deals with the role of marine and coastal ecosystems, whose importance in climate regulation is often underestimated and misunderstood. They also play a role in mitigating the impacts of cli...
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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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Marine ecosystems: Oceanic plankton, Climate and Development
The collaboration between the FFEM and the Tara Ocean Foundation began in 2015 with the instruction of the Ocean Plankton, Climate and Development project: it was the beginning of a collective adventu...
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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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Marine ecosystems: the restoration of mangroves
The FFEM has supported multiple projects dedicated to the protection, management and restoration of mangroves, as part of its strategy on Resilience of aquatic ecosystems. To improve their effectivene...
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Marine ecosystems: the bay contract
The FFEM publishes a new methodological guide on berry contracts to promote integrated coastal management and enable sustainable development of coastal zones. This book builds on the experience gai...
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Transforming Andean agriculture through pesticide-free commons (One2Zero)
In the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, the widespread use of pesticides poses serious threats to human, animal and environmental health. In this global agrochemical hotspot, the One2Zero project is support...
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Restoring forests and landscapes and sustainably managing land in the Sahel
The populations of Burkina Faso and Niger rely on land subjected to intense biophysical and human pressure due to ecological, economic and social reasons. By supporting a project combating the degrada...
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