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Climat Agricultural production

How Seed Co Group is tackling climate change in Zimbabwe

  • Samson Ruwisi Trésorier Seed Co Group
20 December 2022
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Farmers in Southern Africa are grappling with the hazards of climate change and reduced rainfall. Seed Co Group – a company based in Zimbabwe – is attempting to provide them […]Continue Reading
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Biodiversity Forests

Protected area management: how can the private sector play a part?

  • Luthando Dziba Managing Executive Sanparks
  • Jean Labuschagne Director for Conservation Development and Assurance African Parks
22 November 2021
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We are depleting our natural capital, which sustains lives and economies. A cost-effective way to conserve natural capital, and to restore our natural balance sheet to its proper order is […]Continue Reading
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Developing organic fair trade sectors: the example of Kaoka

  • Guy Deberdt Chief Executive Officer Kaoka
  • Sébastien Balmisse Programs and Quality Manager Kaoka
08 November 2021
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As an SME involved in cocoa production, Kaoka can see the destructive effects of an agricultural approach with little concern for the ecosystems where it is applied. By setting up […]Continue Reading
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Biodiversity Environment Forests

Zoonoses and biodiversity: do we need to rethink environmental health governance?

  • Serge Morand Ecologist and biologist CNRS/CIRAD
24 September 2021
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The number of zoonosis epidemics is on the rise, fuelled by industrial farming practices, deforestation and the loss of traditional habitats. There is an urgent need to rethink health policy […]Continue Reading
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Environment Agricultural production

Restored rangelands enhancing prosperity in Southern Africa

  • Amos Thiongo Regional Director, Conservation Finance Africa Conservation international
10 September 2021
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In the drylands of Southern Africa, land degradation is increasing, reducing nature’s ability to regenerate pastures to sustain livestock and wildlife. Unaddressed, degraded rangelands can become “wastelands” that Continue Reading
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Biodiversity Environment Forests

Partnerships between civil society and the private sector to protect sensitive regions

  • Pierre Carret Grant Director CEFP
15 July 2021
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The CEPF is a fund specialised in supporting partnerships between environmental protection associations and economic stakeholders. When civil society comprises a wide range of organisations – a diversity that Continue Reading
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Agri-business Biodiversity Environment

The Nature Conservancy: using technology to protect tuna stocks

  • MARK ZIMRING Director The Nature Conservancy
08 June 2021
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Climate change, pollution, and overfishing are putting enormous pressure on the Pacific. Against this background, the eight island nations that make up the Nauru Agreement (PNA) – which controls 70% […]Continue Reading
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Biodiversity Environment Forests

Evolving in order to provide more effective solutions to environmental challenges

  • Coline Jacobs Head of Sustainable Development Veolia
04 June 2021
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Veolia’s historic mission and the development of its businesses have made it a stakeholder who wishes to actively contribute to reducing anthropogenic environmental pollution. Like all industrial businesses, it can Continue Reading
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Biodiversity Environment Forests

Protecting biodiversity for The Long Run, a holistic approach?

  • Delphine Malleret King Executive Director THE LONG RUN
21 May 2021
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Faced with the current biodiversity and climate crises, privately protected areas, which play a pivotal role in biodiversity conservation, can improve the resilience of the conservation sector. The private sector Continue Reading
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Biodiversity key figures Climat Environment Forests

Biodiversity Loss: An Alarming Report – Key figures

  • Secteur Privé & Développement
12 April 2021
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Prepared by 145 experts from 50 countries, the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Continue Reading
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