Publications and media
Multi-dimensional inequalities, climate governance and livelihoods in sub-saharan Africa
Recurring drought and other severe weather events, combined with unstable energy supply in this region, jeopardize socio-economic development and livelihoods. States’ abilities to provide basic servic...
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Transition of the European power system within planetary boundaries
Planetary boundaries define a formal framework for a more "integrated" analysis of human activities' impacts on various environmental categories. Their application to energy systems allows assessing t...
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Global Biodiversity Scenarios
Policy Paper 12 : Global Biodiversity Scenarios - Mandarin Version This paper aims to review and compare existing global and quantitative biodiversity scenarios that could help to build a forward-...
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Communication Guide for AFD-Supported Projects (Level 2)
Does your project benefit from financing from Agence Française de Développement (AFD)? Is it a flagship project requiring enhanced communication? This guide on enhanced communication (Level 2) provi...
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Visibility Guide For AFD-Supported Projects (Level 1)
Does your project benefit from financing from Agence Française de Développement (AFD)? This Visibility Guide (Level 1) provides all the information you need to implement communication activities. The...
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The middle class in Argentina: dynamics, characteristics and implications for public policies
Argentina is generally considered as the typical middle-class country in Latin America. Yet, while the successive crises that have hit the Argentinean economy over the four last decades have obviously...
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Research Conversations replay: Colombia: Implementing structural reforms to address the great challenge of ine...
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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Water and Sanitation - 2022 Activity Report
Water is a major challenge for the 21st century. Shortages, poor water quality and the lack of sanitation facilities have an impact on food security, health, gender equality and living conditions for...
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Sahel - Activity Report 2022
Over the past decade, the deterioration of the security situation has profoundly destabilized the Central Sahel, with spillover effects throughout the region and even beyond. Weakened social cohesion...
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AFD and Climate in Eurasia
At Agence Française de Développement, we believe that every development project needs to consider its contribution to the fight against climate change. In Euasia, thanks to our national and regional p...
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Research Conversations replay: Raising the Bar of Sustainable Finance: Cooperation Between Multi and National ...
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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AFD, the Choice of Feminist Development
Women are discriminated against in all areas: employment, education, health and governance. Gender inequality causes both injustice and poverty, and hinders both economic and social development. The...
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How can accounting reformulate the debate on natural capital and help implement its ecological approach?
This paper shows that the mainstream usage of ‘natural capital’ (NC) is incompatible with an ecological approach. It argues that accounting is relevant for (re)structuring the debate around NC and imp...
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Marthe Mapangou: "Combining forestry and sustainable development is possible"
In Gabon, any action aimed at developing the country's economy and infrastructure inevitably comes up against the sensitive issue of the preservation of forests, which cover more than 80% of the terri...
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Gabon: Using forests without destroying them
Committed to the forests of Gabon since 2015, AFD Group supports forest operators and the country's administration in the transformation of the forest-wood sector. An unavoidable change in a country w...
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The Green Transition Dilemma: the Impossible (?) Quest for Prosperity of South American Economies
This paper explores the tensions that the transition toward a zero-carbon economy entails for countries relying on natural resources exploitation as the main drivers of (net) exports, as is the c...
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The Clean Oceans Initiative
An estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic waste and 1.5 million tonnes of microplastics enter the oceans every year. This threatens marine ecosystems as well as the communities relying on the seas for...
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Ex-post evaluation of the Budget Support Program for Sustainable Forest Management in Türkiye (CTR1069-CTR1074...
To reinforce the strategic integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation in relation to Greenhouse gas (GHG) in the General Directorate of Forestry (OGM)’s activities. To support the i...
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How to improve food security?
According to the World Food Programme, the number of people facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled since 2019, from 135 million to 345 million around the world. The food crisis has multipl...
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Strong sustainability and property rights
The core principle of strong sustainability is non-substitutability. Many economic resources rely on ecosystem function, which is at best partially substitutable; ecosystem function can be maintained...
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Defining standards of good ecological condition for computing the ESGAP in developing countries
This report seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of an "all-country" ESGAP (Environmental Sustainability Gap), the implementation of the framework and the calculation of ESGAP parameters for as many c...
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