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Central Africa - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy

At the heart of the African continent, Central Africa is a diverse area that is loosely and unevenly integrated regionally and marked by contradictory dynamics and tensions which can weaken cohesion, whereas several countries in the region face common challenges. Established in Douala, the

Published in May 2021

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Impact Evaluation Study of Forest Management Systems on the Forest Cover in the Congo Basin

Given the extent of production forests, which is much larger than protected areas, sustainable logging, through timber concessions with forest management plans, can be a valuable tool for forest conservation, combining biodiversity conservation, economic production, and local development. To that

Published in May 2021

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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 uses original high-resolution maps of forest-cover changes and official records on the activities

Published in April 2019

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Adapt'Action: Addressing Climate Impacts Together

In the context of COP21 and the Paris Agreement, countries have made voluntary commitments to fight against climate change and adapt to its impacts. The challenge now lies in making the Paris Agreement operational by implementing these commitments – called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs

Published in January 2019

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Export diversification in the franc zone: its extent, sophistication and dynamics

It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The empirical research of Imbs and Wacziarg (2003) has notably shown that production diversification

Published in December 2012

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Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa

The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the year 2015 (Dakar declaration, Millennium Development Goals), will no doubt be reached by a number of

Published in October 2010

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The Commons : Interview with David Bollier