Publications and media
How to curb deforestation on the Amazon frontier?
Deforestation in the Amazon advances through a frontierexpansion dynamic marked by speculation, land conquest, and the rapid conversion of land. These dynamics often come with conflict and exclusion,...
Citizens and the climate: Towards innovative decision-making in public climate policies?
This publication is a synthesis of a study by International IDEA: “Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change; Exploring the Potential of Climate Assemblies in the Global South”. The two main crises of...
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2023 #2
Since the last edition of our publication MacroDev Semestrial in February 2023, international economic developments have remained eventful and intense, against the backdrop of the continued global geo...
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Rendemic uncertainties in developing countries: Issues arising from an increased interdependence between banks...
An increased recourse to financing from the domestic banking sector has proved to be an important source of resilience for many developing countries in their efforts to face expenditures generated by...
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Social Assistance for Informal workers
This paper exposes the measures extended to informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes two South-American countries which have a high percentage of informality, Colombia and Bra...
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Protect indigenous communities and the amazonian forest
The AFD and The FFEM launched the multi-country project TerrIndigena, which aims to support the organizational processes of 18 indigenous communities in the Amazon in three countries: Brazil, Colombia...
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Regional Strategy Brazil-Southern Cone 2020-2024
This document presents the strategy of the Regional Office for Brazil-Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay), established in September 2017 and located in Brasilia. The strategy covers the period...
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From global to local: Subnational development banks in the era of Sustainable Development Goals
Financing the implementation of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been a development challenge since the establishment of the 2030 Agenda – especially under the unequal circumstan...
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Evaluation Summary - Financial and Technical Support to BDMG for the Development of its Activity with the Mina...
In Brazil, in the climate sector, the project "Providing financial and technical support to BDMG for the development of its activity with the Minas Gerais State (EMG) municipalities, in the areas of s...
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Reaching Brazil's Nationally Determined Contributions: An Assessment of the Key Transitions in Final Demand an...
Brazil has achieved significant advances in climate mitigation by reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last decade. Additionally, Brazil commits to furthering its actions through the Nat...
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Transport Infrastructure and the Spatial Evolution of the Productive Structure in Brazil
This paper analyzes the impact of large scale investments on transport infrastructure on the spatial evolution of the productive structure in Brazil, in particular the industry/service mix. It does so...
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8th World Water Forum Press Kit
The international community will be gathering at the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia (18 - 23 March 2018) to discuss water, a vital resource. The situation is urgent: over 2 billion men, women and c...
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Challenges in Sanitation
Among the essential public utilities, sanitation and wastewater services present forms of organization and management that have contributed to make it low on the agenda of policy makers when it comes...
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An Input-Output Analysis: What Would a Low-Carbon Economy for Brazil Mean?
Mixing economic growth with low-carbon objectives entails multidimensional challenges among which a shift in employment and a rapid transformation of infrastructure are involved. The aim of this paper...
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The Governance of Climate Change in Developing Countries - A Report on International and Domestic Climate Chan...
Climate change has become the most important global issue of our time and now occupies a key place on the global governance agenda. Recent attempts to create a concrete framework for mitigation have f...
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South-South cooperation and new agricultural development aid actors in western and southern Africa - China and...
The aim of this study is to better understand, from the information collected on missions undertaken in Senegal, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, and Brazil, the scope and methods of Chinese and Brazilian co...
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Water services and the private sector in developing countries. Comparative perceptions and discussion dynamics
During the past twenty years, participation of the private sector in the field of essential services has been a topic of much discussion, allowing the expression of very different viewpoints and the m...
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Community participation in the Pantanal, Brazil: containment games and learning processes
In this paper, we inquire into how “community participation” (CP) played out in the creation of the Pantanal Regional Park (PRP), a large-scale participatory initiative launched in 1998 in the Brazili...
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