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Finance: what is alignment?
In recent years, financial institutions and investors have increasingly questioned the impact of their activities, particularly since the Paris Agreement on climate change. As a result, these financia...
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How Can Ecuador’s Peanut Value Chain Be Strengthened? Challenges, Opportunities, and Pathways for Sustainable...
The peanut is a traditional crop in Ecuador, characterized by its quality and variety diversity. However, its development and exploitation have been limited, largely due to its primarily family-based...
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Can social inclusion benefit ecosystems?
With 17,500 islands and 54,000 km of coastline, Indonesia is heavily dependent on its marine ecosystems. However, these areas are currently under strain due to significant demographic, economic, and e...
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Agriculture, rural development and biodiversity - 2024 Activity Report
AFD financing in areas such as farming, livestock raising, management of forest and fishery resources, as well as ecosystem preservation adopts an integrated territorial approach that takes climate ch...
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Infographic - Our activity to support agriculture, rural development and biodiversity in 2024
In 2024, AFD Group made significant commitments to agriculture, rural development and biodiversity, amounting to €1.7 billion. AFD’s investments focused in particular on agricultural sectors, climate...
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Opportunities to address inequality in transition
South Africa has high levels of persistent, structural inequality. Social ownership has remerged in recent years as an opportunity to address inequality, particularly in the context of the just transi...
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Uganda: Microfinance Boosts Businesses
AFD is committed to enhancing financial inclusion for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda through its partnership with Pride Microfinance. This collaboration improves access to essenti...
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Changes in Temperature and Rainfall Extremes in Vietnam under Progressive Global Warming Levels from 1.5ºC t...
This study analyzes projected climate extremes in Vietnam using 33 statistically downscaled CMIP6 models across global warming levels (GWLs) from 1.5°C to 4°C. Results reveal significant regional chan...
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A Guideline to Using Administrative Data
South Africa is undergoing the early stages of an energy transition away from coal. A planned transition requires social protection policy interventions to mitigate potential negative employment impac...
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Leveraging International Trade for the Ecological Transition: Quantifying the Drivers of Planetary Boundaries
Using a multi-regional input-output database, we calculate environmental footprints embodied in trade relations related to the different planetary boundaries for different countries and economic activ...
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How are AFD and EU improving grain storage in Egypt?
In a global context marked by tensions, food security is a strategic priority for Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer. To address this dependency and strengthen its resilience, AFD is supporting...
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Coastal land subsidence in West Africa: an overlooked threat? The case of Lagos and the Volta Delta
Lagos and the Ghana’s Volta Delta face significant downward vertical land motion, a phenomenon called land subsidence, compounding sea-level rise. Several stressors drive subsidence rates of several m...
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Climate - Activity report 2024
AFD Group was the first public development bank to align its actions with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, starting in 2017. This ambition reached a milestone in 2024: its new strategy now calls...
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Assessing economic exposure to nature-related risks
The accelerated degradation of biodiversity exposes economic and financial activities to systemic risks comparable to those associated with climate change. We propose a method for assessing the socio-...
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Infographic - Our climate commitments in 2024
In 2024, AFD Group committed €7.7 billion of climate finance in developing countries and overseas territories, including €3.1 BN dedicated to adaptation. Key figures, flagship programs, impacts: di...
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Nature – Activity report 2024
In 2024, AFD Group reached a new milestone with the decision to align 100% of its operations with the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. AFD Group is stepping up to help meet...
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Evaluation of a cluster of projects responding to the Beirut port explosion
On August 4, 2020, the explosion at the port of Beirut severely impacted the Lebanese capital. Immediately mobilized within Team France, the AFD funded a multisectoral response to support the city’s r...
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Reassessing the Role of Special Economic Zones in Africa
This study evaluates the role of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa using newly compiled datasets covering over 230 zones across 43 countries. It examines SEZ impacts on export diversification, t...
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Reducing inequalities and promoting inclusion - Activity report 2024
One of the 2030 Agenda’s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is focused on reducing inequality (SDG 10), viewed as one of the most effective strategies for eradicating poverty and ensuring...
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Infographic – Our activity to support reducing inequalities and promoting inclusion in 2024
The Group’s new 2025-2030 Strategic Orientation Plan demonstrates its commitment to promoting fairer and more inclusive societies.
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