CBFP News Archive

March 2017

Dry season counts (1 976 – 201 6) in the Faro - Bénoué protected area complex (North Cameroon) highlight the continued importance of West – Central Africa’s largest population of common hippopotamus
IITA: Biological product "Aflasafe” to reduce aflatoxin levels in groundnuts and corn
Mediaterre: Popularization of Convergence Plan 2 underway in the Congo
inFO news: an e-newsletter from FAO Forestry
IITA: Former Benin President and Sasakawa executive members praise the work of IITA-Benin
IITA: Scientists to detail progress and challenges regarding global cassava threats at meetings in Nigeria
IITA : Scientists gather to compare notes on status of genetic improvement of yam in Africa
21 March International Day of Forests 2017
adaptation-fund-New Board Chair: Adaptation Fund ‘Doing Right Things Right’ with Innovative, Effective Approaches
adaptation-fund: Adaptation Fund Board Greenlights Record 13 Project Submissions, Appoints New Leadership at 29th Meeting
UN: Opening Segment of the Water Dialogue
IISD: Preparatory Meeting for the Ocean Conference: Our Oceans, Our Future: Partnering for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14
Iisd: Stakeholder Day and 5th Session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-5)
adaptation-fund: Adaptation Fund Board to Review 23 Project Submissions at March Meeting
Congo Basin Peatlands_Nature Letter 2017: Age, extent and carbon storage of the central CongoBasin peatland complex
What is World Water Day?
Worldwaterday: Why wastewater?
Good News for Congo Basin: COMIFAC as Accredited Observer organization to the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
FAO #LoveForests: IDF 2017 video campaign
GEF: The Art of Knowledge Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide for the GEF Partnership
GCF: Agreement heralds closer GCF-China ties
GCF: GCF consultationson REDD+ results-based payments
Gef- Integrated approaches: accelerating women’s contribution to food security, reducing deforestation and sustainable cities
IISD: ENB+ Side Events Coverage
GEF: Restoring land productivity in Kazakhstan's small villages
GEF: People for wildlife: conservation unbound in Namibia
IISD: 6th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (OWG-EFMLS-6)
COMIFAC: Central African experts receive training on climate finance
COMIFAC-report: Sub-regional workshop on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and climate finance capacity building in Central Africa, 13-16 March 2017, Kigali-Rwanda
Making Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) work for forests, people and the climate: Civil society recommendations on the future of VPAs
Tandfonline: The role of forest resources in income inequality in Cameroon
Cameroun24: Cameroon - Environment. Bertoua : 144 pieces of ivory seized
Journaldemontreal : More than a tonne of ivory, chopped into pieces, seized in Uganda
Africatime : Ali Bongo Ondimba receives book on strategic planning of Gabon’s territory
FAO: CAFI invests USD 10 million in DRC forest monitoring system to tackle climate change
FAO: Indigenous peoples are key to protecting wildlife and rural livelihoods
Traffic: FairWild sustainability solutions on show at BioFach 2017
Creation of a Blue Economy Funding Fund in the Congo Basin: Blue Fund
Ministerial Conference on the establishment of the Congo Basin Blue Fund
The Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), the CBFP’s new partner!
New collaboration protocol between COMIFAC and RAPAC signed!
Sub Regional Preparation Workshop in view of future UNFCCC events, 09 - 11 March 2017
Workshop on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and climate finance capacity building in Central Africa, 13-16 March 2017, Kigali-Rwanda
Final Communiqué: National validation workshop on the regional environmental and social strategy assessment report on the use of the Ngoyla-Mintom Forest
A Huge step forward for RECEIAC!
March 3, 2017: World Wildlife Day - Working Together for Congo Basin Wildlife