Given the increasing global demand for food, feed, industrial raw material and energy crops, BiomassWeb aims at contributing to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa through harnessing productivity and efficiency gains in the whole biomass-producing, processing and trading system. This will be achieved by an increased integration of all value web...
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development. "REDD+" goes beyond deforestation and forest degradation, and includes...
The ESMAP-LA programme is a joint WB and IFC initiative, which works as a catalyst to ensure that quality off-grid lighting products are accessible to energy-poor households in several regions of the continent. LA piloted its programme in Kenya and Ghana, and is now working in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Senegal...
Increasing global demand for biomass has increased pressure on the agricultural sector and food production in the past decade, especially in Africa. Concepts to increase food security while attending growing demands for non-food biomass and developing alternative biomass sources are still in their infant stages. BiomassWeb aims therefore at contributing...
The overall aim of WASCAL is to identify resilient and adaptive land use systems and develop measures to conserve or restore functional ecosystems that support sustainable human development, while preserving the natural resource base for future generations. It will make available to the West African research community the expertise existing...