This chapter focuses on mobilising sustainable investment in Central Africa’s nine countries [Burundi, Cameroon, the African Republic (CAR), Chad, of Congo (Congo), Democratic (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé Príncipe]. It analyses region’s financial inflows considers how they are allocated to activities that promote regional integration. then proposes a case study potential monetis...

interest in arid ecosystems as a source of food supply for rapidly increasing population of the world, on the one hand, and the problems pertaining to the climatic characteristics, water shortages and soil sensitivity for the inhabitants in such areas, on the other have prompted efforts at both national and international levels to develop a better understanding of these problems as well as to f...

Afforestation efforts have resulted in extensive plantations of either native or non-native conifers, which in many regions has led to the spread of those conifers into surrounding natural vegetation. This process of species colonization can trigger profound changes in both community dynamics and ecosystem processes. Our study disentangled the complexity of a process of colonization in a hetero...