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South Asia Regional Office

Stretching from Pakistan in the west to Bangladesh in the east, and bordered by the Himalayas in the north and the Indian Ocean in the south, South Asia brings together highly diverse geographical, po...

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Southeast Asia Regional Office

Southeast Asia is a region of opportunities and challenges. Although there are marked linguistic, religious, political, economic and geographical contrasts, common dynamics are emerging in relation to...

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Indian Ocean Regional office

Working together to build solutions that benefit all is a shared priority across the territories of the Indian Ocean region, which see themselves as part of a community united by economic, cultural, a...

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Population and natural resources - Proceedings of the 6th AFD-EUDN Conference, 2008

The theme of the environment and its management in view of the sustainability of living standards has today taken on paramount importance. This renewed interest has been spurred by a series of recent...

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Published on January 1, 2009

Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: the conditions for success

For cities to protect themselves against climate change, strong political commitment is of course necessary. But just this is not enough: A panoply of institutional, strategic and social factors is al...

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Published on November 1, 2014

Development Challenges in Latin America

Despite remarkable economic dynamism and poverty reduction over the past decade, Latin America must still overcome many socioeconomic challenges to achieve sustainable development. Against a backdrop...

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Published on March 1, 2014

Integrating Marginalized Neighborhoods into Cities: Tomorrow‘s Challenge

Urban growth is spreading mainly in the cities of the South, and the populations of marginalized neighborhoods are expected to double and reach 2 billion in 2030. It is unrealistic to imagine a future...

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Published on November 1, 2014

The agrarian question in South Africa

The end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election as President of the Republic turned a page in the history of South Africa. In 1994, some 60,000 (white) farmers held around 87 million hectares of la...

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Published on April 1, 2014

Securing pastoral mobility in Sahel

Pastoralism has long been regarded as archaic, but recent research shows that pastoral systems can effectively exploit the characteristic instability of dryland ecosystems and make productive use of t...

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Published on May 1, 2014

Agriculture, Forests and Climate Change: Can Labelling Play a Part?

In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1...

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Published on February 1, 2015

Agricultural Credit: Assessing the Use of Interest Rate Subsidies

Since the beginning of the 20th century, interest rate subsidies have been one of the tools used all around the world for developing agriculture, especially by major agricultural countries such as Fra...

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Published on February 1, 2015

Cities in Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Based on an in-depth review of scientific and institutional literature, this document seeks to identify what urban measures contribute efficiently to low-carbon urban development. It focuses on the co...

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Published on March 1, 2015

Facing Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean

Pressure on water resources has reached critical levels in many countries in the Mediterranean Basin. Sophisticated water mobilization strategies have been implemented but physical, financial and envi...

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Published on March 1, 2015

Overextraction of Groundwater Resources: What Are The Solutions?

The amount of water extracted from aquifers worldwide has increased threefold in the past fifty years, leading to an aggravated overdraft of these common resources. This “pumping race” brings about ma...

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Published on March 1, 2015