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Climate : how can a development agency help?
Our planet is warming. Why? Who are the foremost victims? And what are development agencies doing to ensure the transition towards a more low-carbon world? The more humankind goes forward, the more i...
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Beyond the maps
Through several interviews, this film shows how the African scientific community has appropriated technology to sustainably manage logging in forests, to the benefit of the people living in the Congo...
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What is a sustainable agriculture sector?
In developing countries, many farmers live in poverty. How can the situation be reversed? Is it possible to give priority to environmentally friendly agricultural practices while allowing everyone to...
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Panorama 2016 - AFD Annual Report
With pragmatism and determination, AFD teams are currently working on more than 2,500 development projects across the world - supplying water to parched land and people in Jordan and electricity to th...
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Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: an overview and exemplary projects
More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely...
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How Can We Capitalize on the Demographic Dividend? Demographics at the Heart of Development Pathways
In the coming decades, West African countries could benefit from a “demographic window of opportunity” in order to reduce their poverty. The entry of 160 million young people into the labor market bet...
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Managing food price instability in developing countries - A critical analysis of strategies and instruments
Based on a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical literature, this book identifies and analyzes four "pure" strategies that can be employed to manage food price instability. It is inten...
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Family Farming Around the World: Definitions, contributions and public policies
Family farms are central to both contemporary changes and contradictions in agriculture. They have been, and are still, the crucible for a whole host of agricultural innovations and major revolutions....
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François PARMANTIER
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Director of the Internal Audit Department, Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group)
Sylvie BOYER
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General Secretary – Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Management Committee of Agence Française de Développement
Laurent BIDDISCOMBE
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Director (Appointed on: 05/07/2024), Executive Director for Global Client Solutions at AFD, Board of Directors
Anda DAVID
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Economist, scientific coordinator of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities
Inequalities, sustainability, poverty, labor market, migration
Hélène EHRHART
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Economist
Public Finance Management, Development Economics, Macroeconomic Analysis
Julien CALAS
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Research Officer on Biodiversity
Biodiversity, protected areas, biodiversity financing, rural development
Julien Calas is an agricultural engineer specialized in development economics, who graduated from AgroParisTech after previous university studies in biology.
Claire ZANUSO
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Economist, Head of AFD's Emerging Tech Lab
Development economics, labor markets, impact evaluation, impact of natural disasters, geospatial impact evaluation
Stéphanie LEYRONAS
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Research Officer
Commons preservation, natural resources management, service management, development economics
Oskar LECUYER
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Research Officer, Environmental Economist
Environmental and climate economics, environmental sustainability, blue economy
Currently in Bangkok, Oskar Lecuyer is an environmental economist with AFD.
