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#2. Intercultural Podcast "Cup of Tea": Anna van Malder – Esprit libre en Afrique
Anna van Malder vit depuis bientôt vingt ans en Afrique de l’Ouest. Elle est venue pour le plaisir de découvrir l’Afrique et elle y a trouvé son chemin. L’interculturel fait partie de sa vie quotidienne, aussi bien sur le plan...

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 SIERRA LEONE 🇸🇱
🔎 Find here the latest news about EU and Sierra Leone Forest Action The EU supports partner countries to preserve their forests and to contribute to sustainable, inclusive economies and societies. Find here some examples of EU...

10 Takeaways from the Evaluation of the West African Competitiveness Program in Sierra Leone
The evaluation results of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme in Sierra Leone provide insights into the extent to which the project has supported national institutions and intermediary organizations in improving their...

West Africa: Preserving a precious stretch of the Guinean forest-savanna Mosaic Ecoregion
Sierra Leone and Guinea share what has been identified as a “key landscape for conservation”. This is the Outamba Kilimi National Park, Kuru Hills Forest Reserve in Sierra Leone and the Pinselli and Soyah Classified Forests in...

Project closure: what has the EU support to ERERA achieved?
A few numbers and figures about the EU Technical Assistance Support to ERERA, a project launched in April 2018 and closed in January 2023. What has the project achieved?

Smallholders and food and nutrition security: evidence from the Food & Business Research programme
This synthesis paper, published in May 2020 by the Dutch Food and Business Knowledge Platform and the Dutch research council NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, considers the ways in which smallholder agriculture contributes...

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...

Clean Energy Democratization in Nigeria
In Nigeria, more than 85,000 deaths Occur annually, largely women and children are affected. Green Energy & Biofuels is a Social Enterprise doing something about it by converting Wastes; primarily Saw dust and Water Hyacinth into...