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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...
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Light House of Hill : To Flourish Properly, Needs People Participation and Asset Based Development
Very nice shiny morning. The hills show their natural beauty. Suddenly clouds have come and surrounded the whole area. After ten minutes, clouds have gone and everything gets clearly visible. It seems that the hilly area...
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Tracking food security during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak
This February 2015 survey from VAM Food Security Analysis, World Food Programme, indicates that the overall situation is stabilizing or improving in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the poorest households seem to be increasingly reliant...
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Impact of the ebola epidemic
Based on a meeting 2-4 March in Lomé, the most recent assessment of the impact of the ebola virus by Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) finds that the overall situation in the region is stable, though there are pockets of food...
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Ebola's impact on food security in West Africa: a new EC report
A recent report Impact of the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak on food security from the EC's Joint Research Centre, published in December 2014, considers that the 2014 Ebola outbreak has had significant adverse effects...
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Joint Programming Workshop for West Africa, Abidjan, 4-5 June 2014
The Joint Programming Workshop for West Africa, Abidjan, 4-5 June 2014, co-hosted with France, brought together 55 joint programming practitioners (Heads of Cooperation of EU and Member States) from 12 partner countries Benin...