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Management of transboundary waters in increasingly becoming more challenging, and climate change is likely to exacerbate these pressures. Not least because climate change is a global issue, adaptation will require an international response.
Author(s):
- Sanchez, Juan Carlos
- Roberts, Joshua
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
- IUCN
Ce rapport synthétise les résultats de ces quatre années de recherche et dresse, entre trois sites (barrages et périmètres rizicoles) -- Sélingué au Mali, Bagré au Burkina Faso et Anambé au Sénégal -- des parallèles porteurs d’enseignements pour la région ouest africaine.
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Hathie, Ibrahima
- Skinner, Jamie
- Koundouno, Jérôme
Organization(s):
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- IUCN Burkina Faso
In recent years, the governments of the Sahel have committed to combat poverty and food insecurity through a significant increase in the development of irrigable areas. From 2013 onwards, GWI has carried out retrospective studies on three existing dam and rice field sites: Sélingué in Mali, Bagré
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Hathie, Ibrahima
- Skinner, Jamie
- Koundouno, Jérôme
Organization(s):
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- IUCN Burkina Faso
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
The Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity’s appropriation of the earth’s wildlife and mineral riches—in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarized, and near resource extractio
Organization(s):
- Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Small Arms Survey
Management of transboundary waters in increasingly becoming more challenging, and climate change is likely to exacerbate these pressures. Not least because climate change is a global issue, adaptation will require an international response.
Author(s):
- Sanchez, Juan Carlos
- Roberts, Joshua
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
This paper is a summary of a longer and fully referenced document by the same authors.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
- Dave, Radhika
- Girot, Pascal
- Herrera Fernández, Bernal
- Munrol, Robert
- Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
- Paaby, Pía
- Pramova, Emilia
- Vergara, Walter
- Watson, James
Organization(s):
- BirdLife International
- CARE International
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
- Conservation International
- Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
- Inter-American Development Bank
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
- WWF
Agricultural investments involving the acquisition of long-term rights over large areas of land in developing countries have been the focus of much debate in recent years.
Author(s):
- Djiré, Moussa
- Keita, Amadou
- Diawara, Alfousseyni
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Group d'Etudes et de Recherche en Sociologie et Droit Appliqué (GERSDA), ML
This paper examines how interventions intended to improve functionality and productivity of forested landscapes to improve livelihoods of the poorest populations, might actually yield co-benefits in terms of biodiversity conservation.
Author(s):
- Barrow, Edmund G. C.
- Fisher, R. J.
- Gordon, James
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
- Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ce document propose une série de projets de principes et de directives pour jeter les bases dune planification de lEbA. Ils sont destinés à un usage de planification dadaptation nationale, par des institutions financières, et dans le cadre de projets de recherche.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
- Dave, Radhika
- Girot, Pascal
- Herrera Fernández, Bernal
- Munrol, Robert
- Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
- Paaby, Pía
- Pramova, Emilia
- Vergara, Walter
- Watson, James
Organization(s):
- BirdLife International
- CARE International
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
- Conservation International
- Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
- Inter-American Development Bank
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
- WWF
Este documento propone un conjunto de principios y lineamientos que actúen como el fundamento para la planeación de la AbE.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
- Dave, Radhika
- Girot, Pascal
- Herrera Fernández, Bernal
- Munrol, Robert
- Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
- Paaby, Pía
- Pramova, Emilia
- Vergara, Walter
- Watson, James
Organization(s):
- BirdLife International
- CARE International
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
- Conservation International
- Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
- Inter-American Development Bank
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
- WWF
This paper is a summary of a longer and fully referenced document by the same authors.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
- Dave, Radhika
- Girot, Pascal
- Herrera Fernández, Bernal
- Munrol, Robert
- Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
- Paaby, Pía
- Pramova, Emilia
- Vergara, Walter
- Watson, James
Organization(s):
- BirdLife International
- CARE International
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
- Conservation International
- Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
- Inter-American Development Bank
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
- WWF
This document proposes a series of draft principles and guidelines that were produced at a workshop with participation of its authors in June 2011, with the aim to serve as a foundation for planning ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
- Dave, Radhika
- Girot, Pascal
- Herrera Fernández, Bernal
- Munrol, Robert
- Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
- Paaby, Pía
- Pramova, Emilia
- Watson, James
- Vergara, Walter
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
- BirdLife International
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Conservation International
- WWF
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- CARE International
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
- Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
Ce document présente les expériences de six barrages construits en Afrique de l'Ouest entre la fin des années 1970 et la fin des années 1990 : Sélingué au Mali, Niandouba et Confluent au Sénégal, Moussodougou, Bagré et Kompienga au Burkina Faso.
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Koundouno, Jérôme
- Skinner, Jamie
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Institut de Recherches et d’Applications des Méthodes de développement (IRAM), FR
This document examines the experiences of six dams built in West Africa between the late 1970s and late 1990s: the Niandouba and Confluent in Senegal, the Sélingué in Mali, and the Bagré, Kompienga and Moussodougou dams in Burkina Faso.
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Koundouno, Jérôme
- Skinner, Jamie
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Institut de Recherches et d’Applications des Méthodes de développement (IRAM), FR
En Afrique de louest, la principale, sinon la seule, activité industrielle susceptible davoir un impact sur les aires protégées est lindustrie extractive au sens large.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
This documentary film is a medium of information and awareness for various stakeholders (policy makers, civil society, populations, technical and financial partners) about the many challenges and opportunities related to large dams in West Africa.
Organization(s):
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
With climate change now a certainty, the question is now how much change there will be and what can be done about it. One of the answers is through adaptation. Many of the lessons that are being learned in adaptation are from success stories from the field.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto
- Herrera Fernández, Bernal
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
Le Mali dispose d'un réseau d'aires protégées mais on peut craindre que son avenir soit compromis aujourd'hui, du fait des multiples pressions et menaces qu'il rencontre.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
- IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
- Mali, [Government]
- UNEP
La présente évaluation de l'efficacité de gestion des sites Ramsar d'Afrique de l'Ouest a été réalisée à partir d'un échantillon de treize sites en Afrique de l'Ouest, répartis dans cinq pays (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia et Mali), francophones ou anglophones.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
- IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
- Global Water Partnership (GWP)
- Sweden, SIDA
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
- Global Water Partnership (GWP)
- Sweden, SIDA
Le Mali possède un réseau composé de onze aires protégées et de six zones dintérêt cynégétique qui couvrent ensemble 4,6% du territoire national.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
- IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
Author(s):
- Hellmuth, Molly Elizabeth
- Moorhead, Anne
- Thomson, Madeleine C.
- Williams, Jim
Organization(s):
- International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), US
Author(s):
- Castañeda, Froylán
- Kuzee, Mirjam
- Savenije, Herman
Organization(s):
- Cameroon, Ministère de l'environnement et des forêts
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- FAO
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
- International Centre for Agroforestry Research (ICRAF)
- IUCN, Regional Office for Central Africa
- Netherlands, National Reference Centre for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality EC LNV
Les chimpanzés vivent à létat sauvage uniquement en Afrique tropicale où leur population a diminué de plus de 66% au cours des trente dernières années.
Author(s):
- Bakarr, Mohamed I.
- Boesch, Christophe
- Butynski, Thomas M.
- Kormos, Rebecca
Organization(s):
- Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- Oman, Sir Peter Scott IUCN/SSC Action Plan Fund
- Taiwan, Council of Agriculture
- WWF
Author(s):
- Huq, Saleemul
- Rahman, A. Atiq
- Konate, Mama
- Sokona, Youba
- Reid, Hannah
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, BD
- Enda Tiers Monde, SN
- Shell Foundation, Sustainable Energy Programme
Organization(s):
- United Kingdom, Overseas Development Institute
Wild chimpanzees are only found in tropical Africa, where their populations have declined by more than 66% in the last 30 years. This action plan focuses on one of the four chimpanzee subspecies, the western chimpanzee, which is one of the two subspecies most threatened with extinction.
Author(s):
- Bakarr, Mohamed I.
- Boesch, Christophe
- Butynski, Thomas M.
- Kormos, Rebecca
Organization(s):
- Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- Oman, Sir Peter Scott IUCN/SSC Action Plan Fund
- Taiwan, Council of Agriculture
- WWF
Author(s):
- Devarajan, Shantayanan
- Dollar, David
- Holmgren, Torgny
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Central Africa
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
- FAO, Forest, Trees and People
Organization(s):
- SOS Sahel International, UK
Organization(s):
- FAO
- FAO, Forests, Trees and People Programme
Les plaines d'inondation des grands fleuves de la zone sahélienne d'Afrique de l'Ouest sont des écosystèmes humides dotés d'une productivité exceptionnelle comparée à celle des habitats arides et semi-arides environnants.
Organization(s):
- Groupe d'experts des plaines d'inondation sahéliennes
- IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
- Netherlands, [Government]
The African elephant is the largest living land mammal. It once inhabited most of the continent, from the Mediterranean coast down to its south tip. This picture of elephant range today is one of scattered, fragmented populations south of the Sahara Desert.
Author(s):
- Barnes, R. F. W.
- Craig, G. C.
- Dublin, Holly T.
- Overton, Greg L.
- Simons, W.
- Thouless, C. R.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), African Elephant Specialist Group
- UNEP, Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
- Oman, Sir Peter Scott IUCN/SSC Action Plan Fund
- Chicago Zoological Society, US
- WWF
- Taiwan, Council of Agriculture
- United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
- United States, Fish and Wildlife Service
Organization(s):
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
Author(s):
- de Sherbinin, Alex
- Dompka, Victoria
- Bromley, Lars
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Population Reference Bureau, US
- United States, AID
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, US
- University of Michigan, Population-Environment Fellows Program, US
Organization(s):
- Agricultural University of Norway, Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, NO
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
Author(s):
- Sidiyene, Ehya Ag
- Le Floc'h, Edouard
- Bernus, Edmond
Organization(s):
- France, ORSTOM
- Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), FR
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