Publications and media
Impacts of weather and climate information services on African agriculture
Weather and seasonal forecasts give African farmers the information they need to prepare for climate shocks and change their practices.These changes are generally economically beneficial. Yet consider...
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Water banking and the adaptation of agriculture to climate change in northern Gaza - environmental and social ...
The set of documents available through the link below represents the environmental and social safeguards, under AFD and Green Climate Fund standards, for the Water Banking and Adaptation of Agricultur...
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Evaluation of the Second Objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework (2013–2017)
The Agence française de développement (AFD) has entrusted the evaluation of the second objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework to EY in partnership with Biotope. The Cross-c...
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Reporting Climate Bond AFD 2018
Climate is central to everything AFD Group does, and in 2018 the Group consolidated this position by adopting a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects its aim to help implement the Paris Agr...
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AFD and the energy transition in Vietnam
In line with Vietnam’s revised Power Development Plan, electricity production in 2030 will be four times the level of 2014. This revised plan emphasises the development of renewable energies (ENR), wh...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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Evaluations Report 2017-2018
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world. Focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban deve...
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Do Forest-Management Plans and FSC Certification Help Avoid Deforestation in the Congo Basin?
To allow for the production of timber while preserving conservation values, forestry regulations in the Congo Basin have made Forest Management Plans (FMP) mandatory in logging concessions. This paper...
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Sea level rise: observations, projections and uncertainty
Sea level rise due to climate change is an important risk factor for growing populations living in coastal areas. This issue reports on the observations, projections for the 21st century and major unc...
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Kochi Metro: Enhancing mobility and empowering women
AFD has been working with local authorities and the Indian government to support the Kochi Metro project since February 2014. When the metro was first inaugurated, the curious public would come to vis...
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Economic impacts of a glacial period: a thought experiment
Increased knowledge about anthropogenic climate change has raised growing concerns about its potential catastrophic impacts on both ecosystems and human societies. Yet, several studies on damages indu...
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Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Technical Efficiency in Vietnamese Agriculture
The aim of this study is to examine farm household-level impacts of weather extreme events on Vietnamese rice technical efficiency. Vietnam is considered among the most vulnerable countries to climate...
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Non-linear Impacts of Climate Change on Income and Inequality in Vietnam
This paper measures the marginal impact of climate variability on Vietnamese households’ income. We combine survey data from the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) database with daily c...
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Evaluation of the AFD “Protected Area” conservation and development intervention contributions (2000-2017). Sy...
Since 2000, the AFD and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) have committed financial agreements in direct support to the establishment and management of protected areas (PA). One of the obje...
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Climate - 2018 Activity Report
The effects of climate disturbances are putting people and ecosystems in peril, especially in the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. To limit the increase in global temperature by...
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Evaluation Summary - Infrastructure development of space oceanography (INDESO) project
In the Republic of Indonesia, the Infrastructure development of space oceanography project (INDESO) for the “Natural resources and environment” sector was subject to an evaluation in December 2018....
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What is Adapt'Action Facility?
Following the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD has launched Adapt’Action to support countries seeking technical assistance for the institutional, methodological and operational implementation of their com...
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Financing climate action
The climate is today the marker of the identity of AFD Group. In 2018, this already strong orientation has been strengthened with a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects AFD’s ambition to f...
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Climate Finance, reviving the spirit of COP 21
Three years after COP21, as we witness on a daily basis the devastating effects of climate change and the urgent need to increase ambition, climate finance issues come back strongly at the surface, wi...
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Southern Africa: Energy transition
Southern Africa has access to a wealth of primary renewable energy sources, with enough geothermal, hydro, wind and solar resources to provide gigawatts of power. However, the adoption of low-carbon t...
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Southern Africa: Biodiversity
Southern Africa has a rich natural heritage of global significance to the world’s climate and biological diversity. Unfortunately, the capacity of nature to maintain this biological wealth is rapidly...
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