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The IRD in Northern Africa and in the Middle East
"Judicial Reform in Egypt" : 2nd session of the College of Experts
06 March 2012
Within the framework of the Expert Group review on Judicial Reform in Egypt : How to Accelerate the Decision Making Process before the Court of Cassation, which is conducted by the IRD at the request of the Egyptian Court of Cassation and in collaboration with the University of Paris 1 - ...
Setting-up of a Lebanese Environment Observatory
05 March 2012
On the initiative of Mouin Hamzé, Secretary-General of the Lebanese CNRS, a meeting was held in Beirut on 27 February in order to launch the setting up of a Lebanese environment observatory. This meeting was attended by various French partners (UM2, CNRS, IRD represented by Said Jabbouri, ...
The Great Green Wall: how to check the advancing desert
10 June 2010
The desert has been nibbling away at the Sahel’s fertile land for several decades. To halt this advancing desertification, 11 African countries have come together to build a “Great Green Wall”. This immense project, initiated in 2005, aims to replant with trees a 15 km wide strip stretching 7000 ...
Snow cover monitoring in the Moroccan High-Atlas for better water resources management
22 March 2010
In Morocco, wide arid plains are irrigated at the edge of the desert. The snows of the High Atlas mountains are a substantial reservoir of water for the region, whose economy is strongly based on an agriculture. Water consumption for this farming is particularly high. An increase in water ...
