42 sommets gravis – de 600 à 7000m d’altitude - 25 pays traversés, 102.000m de dénivelé franchis. 11.000€ récoltés au profit de la lutte contre le cancer.Alors qu’il occupe un poste de cadre supérieur dans un grand groupe automobile, Sylvain Perret choisit de quitter travail, carrière, maison, amis, famille, petite amie, pour partir autour du monde, gravissant au passage le point culminant de chacun des pays traversés.Suite à la découverte d'un cancer chez s...

42 summits climbed - from 600 to 7000m of altitude - 25 countries crossed, 102,000m of vertical drop. € 11,000 raised for the benefit of the fight against cancer.While occupying a senior executive position in a large automotive group, Sylvain Perret chose to leave work, career, home, friends, family, girlfriend, to go around the world, climbing the highest peak in each country he crossed.After the discovery of his father's ...

Sécurité alimentaire, emplois, transition écologique des modes de production et de consommation... Inscrite dans les 17 Objectifs du développement durable, l’agro-écologie pourrait être l'une des solutions pour répondre aux défis à venir de l’humanité. Le Cirad et l’AFD livrent leurs réflexions sur l’agro-écologie comme moyen pour les agricultures du Sud de s’adapter aux changements globaux et sur les conditions de réussite de la transition agro-écologique.

This handbook elucidates approaches and methodologies that proved to be successful in West Africa. While tackling far-reaching issues, the focus remains on empowering the small-scale farmer at local level. Procedures for efficient planning and the necessary tools for training farmers are included. This book is accessible to the lay person and all interested in rejuvenating small-scale farming methods.

The book examines how water policies, institutions and governance have shifted in recent years from supply-driven, quantitative, centrally controlled management to more demand-sensitive, decentralized participatory approaches. Such a move often also implies cost recovery principles, resource allocation among competing sectors, and privatization. The case studies demonstrate that the new policies and legal frameworks have been difficult to implement and often fall short of intitial expectat...

Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book, edited and authored by leading authorities on water resource management, examines the recent changes in governance, institutions, economics and policies of water, covering developing, transitional and developed countries, with special emphasis on southern African case studies. T...

Food security, jobs, ecological transition of agricultural production models and consumption patterns... Agroecology could be one of the solutions to meet the future challenges of humanity. Part of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it requires a lasting commitment from all of us. Over the last decade, CIRAD and AFD have conducted experiments in agroecological transitions with farmers, researchers, development agents and policymakers in many countries of the Global South...