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New publication on rainforests and forest protected areas in West Africa
On the International Day of Forests, discover the little known dense rainforests of West Africa, the ‘Guinean forests’, a belt of moist tropical forests stretching from Guinea to Cameroon (interrupted only by the Dahomey Gap in...

New PAPFor book as a reference for West Africa Guinean forests and forest protected areas
Rainforests and forest protected areas in West Africa - current situation and outlook is the new book by the PAPFor Regional Coordination with the University of Liège (Belgium), presenting the state of Guinean forests and...

EU Forest Action in LIBERIA 🌍
🔎 Find here the latest news about EU and Liberia The EU supports partner countries to preserve their forests and to contribute to sustainable, inclusive economies and societies. Find here some examples of EU Forest Action in...

Making a drama out of a crisis: how women in Liberia are protecting biodiversity, one performance at a time.
The theme for this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity - From agreement to action: build back biodiversity - could not be more apt for the women who form the Ex-Bushmeat Sellers Drama Team in Liberia, West Africa...

WEBINAR: Food prices and food system transformation
7 July 2021. Side event to the Science Days for the UN Food Systems Summit. True Cost and True Price of Food event. This session elaborated on the true costs of the global food system, how true pricing can address those costs and...

How EU timber trade deals can support women in tropical forests
Women in five tropical forest countries share their views on how timber trade deals between their countries and the EU could boost gender equity. Norma Rodríguez. The first female President of the Honduran Federation of Agro...

#InformalTalk: Q&A of Webinar 3, Upcoming Webinars 4 & 5!
Here are the questions which were asked during the third #InformalTalks Webinar on “ How to extend social protection to informal workers?” which took place last Thursday: When you mention disability insurance and programme for...

Third #InformalTalks webinar special guest: Juergen Hohmann
As the third #InformalTalks Webinar "Informal Economy and Social Protection - How to extend social protection to informal workers?" on 4 October 2018 at 11am (CET) is approaching, the RNSF team is pleased to introduce one of its...

Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa
New paper in the SWAC/OECD West African Papers series: The food economy is the biggest employer in West Africa accounting for 66% of total employment. While the majority of food economy jobs are in agriculture, off-farm employment...

One year ago: First RNSF Regional Workshop
One year ago, from the 6 th to the 10 th February 2017, the first RNSF workshop was held in Kenya. It brought together members of the IESF Group (researchers, regional experts, public institutions, EU Delegations as well as CSOs)...