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  Second steering committee for IRACC

  10/07/2013 Mavuna

  The Regional Agroecology and Climate Change Initiative (IRACC) held its second steering committee in Anse aux Anglais in Rodrigues on 8 and 9 December2011. This provided an opportunity for the representatives of the project andthe IFAD to discuss action taken in 2011 and to widen activities in 2012.

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  The ANAE: promoting permanent soil cover crop systems in Madagascar

  13/03/2012

  The National Association of Environmental Action is an NGO operating in the fields of reforestation, agro-ecology, conservation and improvement of soil fertility. They do this by raising awareness, organizing training and rural development. The ANAE promotes permanent cover crop systems, and focuses on the Lake Alaotra, Andasibe Mantadia and Bongolava regions, under contract with the Groupement Semis Direct Madagascar (MSWM). 
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• UN launches Decade on Biodiversity to stem loss of ecosystems

  19/03/2012 Sophie Della Mussia

  In December, the United Nations launched the Decade on Biodiversity with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging humanity to live in harmony with nature and to preserve and properly manage its riches for the prosperity of current 

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  Indian Ocean: a closer cooperation on agroecological techniques

  10/07/2013 Quentin Ceuppens, Sophie Della Mussia, Hanta Razafindrazaka

  Madagascar, October 2011: The Indian Ocean Commission brought together the key players in agricultural development to review the progress of an agricultural project known as the "Regional Initiative for the adaptation of small-scale agriculture to climate change in the islands of the Indian Ocean through the dissemination of agro-ecology" (IRACC).

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• FAO moves to halt plant genetic erosion

  05/11/2014 Sophie Della Mussia

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has adopted a new global framework for the conservation and sustainable use of the diversity of plants on which food and agriculture depend. 

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