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Nov 27, 20192 min read
The endangered environment in Madagascar
Madagascar is the fifth largest island in the world. Without doubt one of the richest spaces in the world in terms of biodiversity, the...
Oct 10, 20191 min read
How we eat
New book by Jonathan Safran Foer, after "Eating animals?". Some astonishing information extracted from his new book”. We are the weather,...
Sep 15, 20192 min read
Resource Richness / Population Poverty
It is generally admitted that resource-rich economies are the victims of the "curse of natural resources” and experiencing poor economic...
Aug 11, 20191 min read
2018 was the year of the fight against corruption in Africa
This had been announced in January 2018 by Moussa Faki Mahamat, president of the African Union Commission at the end of a session held in...
Aug 7, 20191 min read
Environment responsible leaders
An initiative of magnitude that we rarely see. The Ethiopian government has launched a massive reforestation program, based on the...
Jul 31, 20192 min read
Fish stock depletion
The Mangrove Foundation dashboard provides us with indications on our compliance towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of...
Jul 23, 20192 min read
Tax evasion in Africa and development aid
A newly issued report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Mauritius Leaks shows how tax evasion affects the...
Jun 8, 20192 min read
The terrifying impact of climate change in north India
The freshly elected nationalist government of India has innovated with the creation of the “Ministry of Water”. This is probably one of...
May 19, 20191 min read
India and development aid
Amazing data on a country where we have an ongoing project, member of the G20 and ranking 5th in the World with 63.9 billion dollars in...
May 19, 20191 min read
Overshoot day 2019
It was at the initiative of the party dei Greng, member of the government coalition, that May 9, the day of Europe, was announced a...
May 8, 20192 min read
Youth unemployment in Africa
It is a real time bomb the bursting of which seems imminent, and one may fear that the shock wave could exceed the continent. The African...
May 8, 20192 min read
Governance in Africa
The legacy of colonization in Africa is twofold, and more than sixty years later, or even more, it lasts. Unless the events in Algeria...
Apr 10, 20191 min read
Daily Carbon Count
In an effort to raise public consciousness, the Guardian, the UK daily newspaper will from now on report the CO2 level in the atmosphere...
Jan 28, 20192 min read
Humans and total biomass
An interesting article in the Guardian published in May 2019 highlighted that the 7.6bio people on Earth only represent 0.01% of the...
Nov 22, 20182 min read
How empowering women can positively impact global warming ?
The New York Time bestseller “Drawdown”, by Paul Hawken, is “The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”. ...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
2018 Nobel Peace Prize
We have already written about the women's situation in Kivu (DR of Congo) where we recently initiated a project. At the global level,...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
Some of the reasons motivating giving
The Americans tend to give more than Europeans (2.1% of GDP versus less than 1% for the EU). A (not so recent) article in Forbes gives...
Oct 30, 20182 min read
Investigating a new environmental project in Italy
With diversification in mind, the Mangrove Foundation recently initiated discussions with MedWet, an association having the objective to...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
An amazing destiny : Zegeye Asfaw Abdi
We have recently met in Addis Ababa the president of Hundee: one of the local NGO with which we cooperate. Mr. Abdi is a trained lawyer...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
Why the wealth of Africa doesn’t make Africans wealthy?
We reported in a recent post on the estimated wealth of some Africa leaders. Beyond just the ruling presidents, a whole cast of...
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