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AFD and academic circles
AFD’s different activities lead it to build partnerships for working relationships, research and reflection with numerous think tanks, research and studies institutes, universities, prestigious high-level education establishments and innovation hubs, both in France and abroad. These partnerships may be for knowledge production, project assistance or of an advisory nature.
International Conference: "Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment”
On 27 and 28 June 2011, AFD and Institut Veolia Environnement are organizing an international conference at the Maison de la Chimie, Paris, under the patronage and in the presence of Christine Lagarde, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, with the exceptional participation of Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics.
- Poverty and environmental damage increasingly go hand in hand throughout the world...
- The global population could reach 9 billion, including 2 billion in Africa...
- There is a need to intensify the fight against poverty so that each man and woman can have access to food, education, housing, medical care and essential goods: water, energy, electricity...
- All the more since the environmental degradation will affect the most vulnerable first.
On the eve of the G20 (under French Presidency) and a year ahead of Rio+20, the conference will be gathering French and international speakers recognized in the scientific, political, voluntary or academic worlds.
For more information:
www.pauvrete-environnement.org
"To abolish hunger", at the Collège de France, 19-20 May
With the G-20 meeting of agriculture ministers fast approaching, Ismaïl Serageldin, holder of the Collège’s chair Knowledge against Poverty-AFD, is gathering eminent scientists, practitioners, philosophers and politicians for a exchange on solutions on how we might end this plague.
Once again we are on the verge of a food crisis, and still nearly a billion people do not have enough to eat. To fight this injustice, we will need everyone’s involvement. With the G-20 meeting of agriculture ministersfast approaching, Ismaïl Serageldin, holder of the Collège’s chair Knowledge against Poverty-AFD, is gathering eminent scientists, practitioners, philosophers and politicians for a exchange on solutions on how we might end this plague.
Such luminaries as Peter Doherty and Wole Soyinga, Nobel laureates in medicine and literature respectively ; Yolanda Kakabadse, Chair of WWF International ; David Beckmann, Chairman of Bread for the world and Jim Wolfensohn, former Director general of the World Bank, will be on hand to discuss their ideas for a global plan to eradicate hunger.
A variety of perspectives to support the ideas that Prof. Serageldin laid out at the end of his inaugural lecture, inviting us to become the “new abolitionists.”
19-20 May 2011
To abolish hunger
Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris
Admission free, but seating limited
►See the presentation of the conference
Conference-debate | "Oceans, the new frontier", 7 April, at Sciences-Po Paris
Conference-debate to mark the launch of the 2011 edition of the annual sustainable development publication "Regards sur la Terre", with Pierre Jacquet, Chief Economist at AFD, Laurence Tubiana, founder of Iddri and Director of Sciences Po’s Sustainable Development Chair and Julien Rochette, a researcher on “oceans and coastal zones”, Iddri. Register
Conference-debate to mark the launch of the 2011 edition of the annual sustainable development publication "Regards sur la Terre", with Pierre Jacquet, Chief Economist at AFD, Laurence Tubiana, founder of Iddri and Director of Sciences Po’s Sustainable Development Chair and Julien Rochette, a researcher on “oceans and coastal zones”Maritime activities were for a long time confined to coastal seas. The first men may have rapidly taken to the seas, drawn by the immensity that opened up before them, but the first forms of maritime navigation remained limited to a modest coastal navigation and to the discovery of the nearest islands. Since then, ocean frontiers have been constantly pushed back and all oceans are today accessible to man. As the distance from the coast or the depth of the ocean are no longer insurmountable obstacles, ocean frontiers are constantly being redefined by technical innovation, scientific discovery, industrial issues, demands from States and, very recently, by ecological demands. It is this profound transformation to the maritime world that is highlighted in the 2011 edition of “Regards sur la Terre”, a collected edited by Agence française de développement (AFD) and Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (Iddri).
The publication, via both a holistic and transdisciplinary approach, analyzes the numerous challenges facing the international community today – from the systematic exploration of marine ecosystems to the sustainable management of fisheries resources, from the fight against maritime pollution to the management of off shore activities, from governance on the high seas to the creation of protected areas. It thus provides valuable input to the debate in the framework of the preparation of the Rio +20 Conference.
To mark the publication of the 2011 edition of “Regards sur la Terre”, whose special report focuses on oceans, Armand Collin, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (Iddri) are organizing a conference with:
- Pierre Jacquet, Director of Strategy and Chief Economist at AFD;
- Antoine Frémont, directeur de recherche, Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité
- Denis Loyer, Conseiller climat de la direction climat de l'AFD. Vient de rejoindre la Fondation GoodPlanet
- Laurence Tubiana, founder of Iddri and Director of Sciences Po’s Sustainable Development Chair;
- Julien Rochette, a researcher on “oceans and coastal zones”, Iddri.
- Jean-Pierre Thébault, Ambassadeur délégué à l'environnement, ministère des Affaires étrangères
Practical information:
Conference-debate "Regards sur la Terre 2011": Oceans, the new frontier.
Thursday 7 April 2011, at 5 pm, at Sciences Po Paris, Jacques Chapsal lecture theatre, 27, rue Saint Guillaume - 75007 PARIS - Free admission, subject to availability.
Annual Epargne Sans Frontière symposium "Africa, the 4th major emerging economy?"
Epargne Sans Frontière is organizing its annual symposium on 8 March 2011, from 2 pm to 6.30 pm at the Fédération Nationale des Caisses d’Epargne, 5 rue Masseran, 75007 Paris. This symposium entitled “Africa, the 4th major emerging economy?” will comprise two roundtables:
- Africa: a continent on the move?
- The challenges of human development
Speakers at the symposium:
- Carlos BRAGA, Special Representative and Director of the World Bank
- Etienne VIARD, Chief Executive Officer of Proparco
- Lionel ZINSOU, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PAI Partners
- Michel ROY, Director of the International Lobbying and Advocacy Department at Secours Catholique
- Bénédicte HERMELIN, Vice-President of Coordination Sud
- Jean-Luc FRANCOIS, Director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Division at AFD
- Alphonse YAPI-DIAHOU, lecturer in urban geography at Paris 8 University
CSFRS and AFD launch call for research projects on the topic “The Niger risk, analysis of factors and recommendations”
Niger today faces phenomena of fragility which pose politico-security risks for the country, the Nigerien authorities, their partners and neighboring countries alike: clashes between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers, rural exodus and urban concentration, concentration of land capital and livestock in rural areas, fragility and fragmentation of Niger’s political system since the end of the Seyni Kountché regime… There is also the AQMI terrorist threat, the risk of the resurgence of the Tuareg insurrections, crime caused by various types of trafficking that go on in the country…
This call for projects aims to give impetus to strategic research on defense and security by creating new avenues and pushing back the boundaries of knowledge. A specific aim is to create interactions between the different disciplinary and sectoral fields.
The High Council for Strategic Education and Research (CSFRS) is a “research” public interest group founded on 17th November 2009. Its mission is to support, coordinate and lead strategic research in the fields of defense and security, promote the pooling of initiatives among public and private actors and make the results available to a wide public.
Deadline for project submission: 30th March 2011
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