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Index Up40: the network of French start-ups focusing on African markets
Launched in 2016 by Medef International, Index Up40 brings together French start-ups operating in Africa. It has become a key network that facilitates synergies and supports French entrepreneurship on...
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Ange Frédérick Balma highlights LiFi on both sides of the Mediterranean
At the head of Lifi-Led start-ups in Abidjan and Sinilux in Aix-en-Provence, the Ivorian entrepreneur Ange Frédérick Balma uses LiFi technology to market light as a wireless communication service. In...
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How the Mauritian CIEL Group is broadening its African horizon
CIEL Group operates in a number of sectors, including financial services, health and textiles, and is one of the leading economic players in Mauritius. This performance is linked to its activities in...
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“The African continent is beginning to create an enabling environment for technology innovation to thrive” – B...
Nigeria's Co-creation Hub (CcHub) is one of the county's leading technology, innovation and preincubation spaces. It is a place for technologists, entrepreneurs, the Government, tech companies, and im...
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Entrepreneurs from the diaspora are ramping up innovation-led development in Africa
The African diaspora is a unique resource that must be harnessed. Aside from channelling financial flows back to their countries of origin, thanks to experience acquired abroad and familiarity with th...
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Overview of new solutions to support small business
In Africa, SMEs account for 90% of private companies and provide jobs for 70% of the rural population. They play a key role in job creation and in the continent’s economic development, however, when...
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Addressing the challenge of SME Finance by optimizing risk management
African SMEs have the potential to provide jobs for working-age youth. Yet there are key impediments – access, risk, regulation and acumen – to them receiving financing. Addressing the perceived high...
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How to successfully build women’s entrepreneurship
Women’s entrepreneurship boosts Africa’s economy. Assisting it means supporting growth and employment. Yet there are many barriers to its development. While some are due to social or cultural factors...
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From required scale to scaling up
Jean-Michel Severino, Chairman of Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), believes that the priority remains investing in support of the formal African enterprise sector, which is best placed to resolve th...
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Protected area management: how can the private sector play a part?
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 conserving i...
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Developing organic fair trade sectors: the example of Kaoka
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 organic fair trade p...
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How a global farmers’ bank works to preserve biodiversity
How can farmers produce food for 10 billion people, while preserving biodiversity – the foundation that food systems rely on? This is a key question guiding the work of Rabobank, one of the world’s bi...
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Incentivising corporate landscape restoration
In the face of the accelerating global climate-biodiversity crisis, and faced with the loss of carbon sinks and ecosystems critical to human survival, there has never been a more urgent need to restor...
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Zoonoses and biodiversity: do we need to rethink environmental health governance?
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 from a mu...
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Restored rangelands enhancing prosperity in Southern Africa
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 “was...
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Total’s approach to tackling biodiversity challenges
Back in 2005, Total introduced an ambitious biodiversity protection programme. Today, the Group is committed to protecting the environment at both local level («biodiversity action plans» for new proj...
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Partnerships between civil society and the private sector to protect sensitive regions
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 divers...
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Recommendations for integrating biodiversity into the wind energy sector in emerging market countries
Renewable energy is essential to achieving sustainable development, and wind energy can provide competitively priced electricity, while helping to reduce climate change impacts. Yet its impacts on bio...
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The Nature Conservancy: using technology to protect tuna stocks
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% o...
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Evolving in order to provide more effective solutions to environmental challenges
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 busi...
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