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Evaluation overview of the Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions (ASSET) Project
Agricultural systems in Southeast Asia face growing environmental and health challenges. Supported by the FFEM, the ASSET project promotes the transition to agroecology and sustainable food systems by...
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Evaluation summary of the ZEMBO project
The Zembo project is set to transform mobility in Kampala by offering electric motorcycles to replace the traditional thermal "boda-bodas," which are responsible for pollution and accidents. By provid...
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News from AMMCO: protecting large aquatic mammals in Cameroon
The African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization (AMMCO) has just published its July news bulletin
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Encouraging agroecology in arid regions: the Avaclim website is live!
Run by the French NGO CARI (Centre for International Action and Realisations) and its partners (eight local NGOs, the Research Institute for Development, SupAgro (French agronomic graduate school) and...
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Biodiversity and guaranteeing food security: SWM Programme website launch Project
The Sustainable Wildlife Management programme, (SWM), jointly managed by the FAO, CIRAD, CIFOR and the WCS, has just launched its website to report on the project’s progress and upcoming developments....
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A new project for restoring biodiversity in Shark Fin Bay (Philippines)
On 15 September this year, the FFEM signed a new financing agreement with the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation for the more sustainable development of Shark Fin Bay.
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THE OCEANS REGULATE OUR CLIMATE AND NURTURE OUR BIODIVERSITY
Marine and coastal ecosystems play a vital role in regulating the climate and mitigating the impacts of climate disruption. Storing carbon, disseminating heat, combating erosion, reducing the impact o...
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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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Claude Garcia: “How to use a game to fight deforestation”
This summer has seen forest fires proliferate across California and Siberia. In the Amazon basin, where conditions are aggravated by climate change, clearance for agriculture is the primary cause. Som...
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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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Mauritania, caught between economic development and biodiversity conservation: we look at two of Mauritania’s ...
Two studies have just been published, looking at the Diawling park and the Banc d’Arguin National Park. These two Mauritanian national parks receive finance from the FFEM to protect their biodiversity
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Sébastien Treyer: “The crisis is pushing us to search for an ever-wider transformational impact.”
Sébastien Treyer, President of the FFEM’s Scientific & Technical Committee and also Director General of the French Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (Iddri), considers...
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An innovative National Park model for the conservation of great apes in Cameroon
On 30 October 2020, the AFD signed a financing agreement on behalf of the French Facility for Global Environment with the Electricity Development Corporation, the public agency in charge of managing r...
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The FFEM takes part in the first virtual collaborative RedLAC-CAFÉ congress
The FFEM was delighted to take part in the very first virtual congress of the RedLAC and Café Environmental Funds, held on 6 - 8 October 2020.
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A forum for conservation of the great apes
In November 2020, the Alliance for the Conservation of Great Apes in Central Africa (AGSAC) organised a forum around the topic of “Local initiatives to protect the great apes of the Cameroon forests a...
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Anniversary of the Paris Agreement: focus on the ACT-DDP project
The ACT-DDP project, backed by the FFEM, guides companies as they develop strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and coordinates dialogue between the private sector and national decision-maker...
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French Foundation for Biodiversity Research Young Researcher Prize - winners announced
On Thursday 10 October 2020, the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) unveiled the winners of its Young Researcher Prize. The FFEM selected Kanto Razanamalala of the French National Resea...
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One Planet Summit: the FoFauPopU project revisited
The fourth edition of the One Planet Summit has as its subject the preservation of biodiversity. The FoFauPopU project, financed by the FFEM, particularly echoes one of the sub-themes, the protection...
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Strengthening pastoral units in Senegal
As part of a project supported by the FFEM, Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF) is publishing two manuals on best management practice for natural resources in the silvopastoral area of th...
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