Natural resource management and access to energy for all are major issues for development and the fight against climate change. GRET defends and promotes sustainable development pathways that are adapted to the challenges of land degradation and erosion of biodiversity. Its projects implement integrated participative approaches aimed at improving governance, equity in value chains and preservation of ecosystems, to increase the resilience of populations and territories.
Natural resource management
Erosion of biodiversity and aggravation of low-flows and flooding are often the result of inappropriate exploitation of lands and predatory behaviour regarding natural resources. Climate change presents an additional threat.
GRET works for local governance of natural resources, ensuring their sustainability and greater equity between users. Its teams support the management of protected areas, forests, coastal areas and water resources. Where pertinent, they also propose the introduction of incentivising economic instruments.
Energy
Currently, three billion people depend on biomass (fuel wood and other fuels derived from living systems) for their basic needs. One billion people do not have access to electricity, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
GRET facilitates access to electricity and the production and use of bioenergy, through the development of appropriate technical and organisational solutions: improved stoves in Mauritania, rural hydro-electric mini-networks in Madagascar, etc. It facilitates renewable energy, encourages implementation of balanced governance and the creation of local added value. It supports the development of economic activities, vocational training and the creation of businesses working in the area of energy.
-
rHYviere |
Village Hydroelectric Grids, Energy and Respect for the Environment
Madagascar | 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2015GRET is designing, testing and disseminating mechanisms by which to develop rural electricity grids supplied by micro hydroelectric plants in Madagascar. With the actors in the sector, it is producing tools and procedures to develop the commodity chain, ...
-
PERUB |
Rural Electrification Project in the Brakna, Mauritania
Mauritania | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2010The general goal of the project is to improve socioeconomic conditions for populations in small villages in the Brakna by allowing them access to electricity services, develop models that can be duplicated on the large scale, and develop ...
-
Riaed |
International network of access to sustainable Energie in West Africa
01/01/2006 - 31/12/2011RIAED is a network of French-speaking experts involved in projects of access to energy in developing countries. By pooling the resources and tools produced in the French-speaking community and building bridges with other networks, the network seeks to: reinforce ...
-
Cartagena Protocol: Monitoring and Analysis of International Biosafety Negotiations
01/01/2004 - 31/12/2006The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety ratified by 110 countries including France represents fundamental progress for international environmental law. It places the precautionary principle at the heart of its operational mechanisms. Raising the awareness of ...
-
Trans-Amazonian Agro-Ecology Project
Brazil | 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2000Sustainable development of family farming and preservation of the Amazon Forest. The goal of this project is preparing an alternative sustainable agroforestry development proposal with the active participation and adhesion of local small farmers’ organisa ...
-
Préparation des investissements en pompes solaire en Mauritanie (en)
Mauritania | 01/01/1993 - 31/12/1993
-
Atelier – débat sur les « Zones Tampon » (en)
France | 01/01/1992 - 31/12/1992
-
Evaluation de la formation Agent de Développement Rural Régions Chaudes (en)
Comoros | 01/01/1991 - 31/12/1991
-
This article analyzes the successes and limits of the Rhyviere hydro power project in Madagascar and raises questions about the role of stakeholders in building an effective and sustainable rural electrification model. By promoting ...
-
The « Environment and Natural Resources Code of Cambodia » (Sixth Draft – – 20 November 2016) is a very extensive proposed law (535 pages !) which will have, if adopted, major impacts on many aspects of Cambodian ...
-
This article analyzes the successes and limits of the Rhyviere hydro power project in Madagascar and raises questions about the role of stakeholders in building an effective and sustainable rural electrification model. By promoting ...
-
Proceedings of the National Workshop on Agroecology Transition 5th and 6th May 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam
| 2016
The dynamic of the participation by stakeholders in the 2 days’ workshop has been found very forceful ; debating on the different understanding on what Agroecology (AE) means to them and what type of current practices would fall ...
-
The 2 days’ workshop has been very intense and very fruitful paving the way to some common principles, common understanding and common expectations about agroecology. There are still some works to do in order to define in an ...
-
Convergence under pressure : Different routes to private ownership through land reforms in four Mekong countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam)
| Comité Technique Foncier et développement ; AFD ; MAEDI | 2015/12
This paper aims to provide keys that will help us understand contemporary land dynamics in these four countries. In order to do so it highlights their similarities and differences, both in the long history that shaped today’s ...
-
Vers la construction d’un cadre analytique et opérationnel sur les communs
| AFD ; MAEDI | 2015/09 | 19
Dans la continuité de ses travaux sur la formalisation des droits et les appropriations foncières à grande échelle, le CTFD a organisé, le 17 septembre dernier, une première réunion consacrée à la question des communs. Ce thème a ...
-
État des lieux de la gouvernance des ressources pastorales et forestières au Sénégal
| Gret, CNCR | 2015/08
L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser les enjeux majeurs qui se posent en matière de sécurisation et de gestion du foncier pastoral et forestier au Sénégal, en vue de formuler des propositions ciblées permettant d’enrichir le paquet de ...
-
La transformation artisanale des plantes à huile
Expériences et procédés
| Gret | 2015 | Guide pratique | 1
Les plantes à huile - ou oléagineux - telles que la noix de coco, le palme, les arachides, ou le karité peuvent être transformées en un grand nombre de produits : huiles ou beurre, mais aussi savon, gâteaux, ...
-
Etude relative aux initiatives innovantes pour le financement de la biodiversité et l’identification des mécanismes à fort potentiel
| ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international | 2014/02
Dans la perspective de financer la réalisation des objectifs de la Convention sur la diversité biologique à l’horizon 2020, les mécanismes de financement innovants sont affichés comme une nécessité pour espérer surmonter le déficit actuel de ressources. Pour ...
Enseignement/recherche
Brésil : Imazon, Burkina Faso : Laboratoire Citoyennetés, France : Cirad ; Mali : Gersda, Senegal : Ipar.
Institutions publiques et collectivités locales
Brésil: Gouvernement de l’Amapá, Service Forestier Brésilien, Ibama.
Mauritanie : Apaus / Direction de l’électricité et de la maîtrise de l’énergie/ ministère de l’Énergie et du Pétrole, Iset / Parc national du Diawling.
Madagascar : Ader
Opérateurs/ONG/Bureaux d’études
Vietnam: Hadeva / CRD.
Cambodge: Cedac.
Bresil: CI / IEB / Idesam / Ipa.
Madagascar: WCS / WWF.
Burkina Faso: Cinesda.
Mali: Amedd.
Senegal: Imedia/ Enda Graf.
RDC : Nature + ASBL
Europe: AVSF/ Iram / SNV / Sher / Energy assistance, Enea consulting.
Organismes professionnelles, groupements, organisations paysannes
Brésil : Adafax.
Cambodge : CSI.
RDC : Centre promotionnel du paysannat.
