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Reports for and participation to projects

– Project for the creation of Sahel Greenhouse in the garden of Auteuil (City of Paris), 2000. Conservation of useful and/or endangered plants from 6 French-speaking country : Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad ; ex situ conservation of genetic resources, especially through seeds. – Project for the building of New-Caledonia biotope in the garden of Auteuil (City of Paris), 1998. Participation in this project in all scientific items: endemism in this French territory is high and justifies ex situ conservation of genetic resources. – Author for the Foreign Affairs Department (Délégation Générale des Relations Internationales) of the City of Paris of a project for the computerization of the herbarium of the Institut Fondamental Afrique Noire at IFAN, Dakar (Senegal), January 1998. – Project of a Systematic garden in the garden of Auteuil, Green spaces Department of the City of Paris, 1997. This project has been accepted by the city council. – Project of technical assistance from the Green spaces department of the city of Paris to the creation of the green spaces department of the city of Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso), 1996. This project included local staff training and genetic resources conservation of endangered useful plants. – Author of the project entitled Djibouti: Development of a National Biodiversity Strategy with Specific Emphasis on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources, brief and project documents. Accepted by the GEF Commission in January, 1995. – Author of the project entitled Research for the revegetalisation of the saline coastal area of Djibouti (Recherches sur la revégétalisation des zones côtières salées), retained by the Franco-Djiboutian Commission on March 19th, 1994. – Local consultant for the proposal of a project entitled Conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources of plant species from the arid zone of the Horn of Africa, UNDP/FEM mission of P-.B. Joly and J.S. Whiting, Dec.-1993. – Local consultant for the proposal of a project entitled Establishment of a national strategy for biodiversity and capacity building to put into practice the Convention on Biodiversity (Etablissement d’une stratégie nationale en matière de biodiversité et développement des capacités pour la mise en oeuvre de la Convention sur la diversité biologique), UNDP/FEM mission of P-.B. Joly and J.S. Whiting, Dec.-1993. – Author and technical advisor of the project entitled Desertification sensitisation, funded by USAID, Sept. 1992 – Jan. 1993. – Head of the project Plant genetic resources of arid zones and transformations, funded by the French Ministry of Co-operation, Aug. 1992-Dec. 1994. – Co-writer with David Weight (VITA) of studies concerning soil analysis and recommendations for the final report of the contract between UNSO-UNDP and ISERST for the pluri-disciplinary project entitled Evaluation of water and soil resources of the alluvial cone of the ouadi Atar, Aug. 1992 : 99-110; 115-119.

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