FIDEP Foundation ER Paper

Climate Ambition and Fiscal Reality: The 10% Renewable Energy Target Africa's renewable energy transition has reached a decisive policy moment. Across the continent, governments continue to announce increasingly ambitious climate and renewable energy commitments, yet implementation continues to lag behind ambition. Ghana's experience demonstrates that this disconnect is neither accidental nor primarily technological. This advisory brief argues that the next generation of African energy policy...

Transforming Ecosystems through Rights-based Resilience and Agroecology (TERRA) TERRA is more than a call for agricultural reform Across the world, development institutions are investing unprecedented resources to address climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, rural poverty, and economic vulnerability. Yet despite these efforts, these challenges continue to converge, often reinforcing one another in ways that strain even the most ambitious interventions. Perhaps this is because...

Agroecology and the Unequal Social Geographies of Global Green Investment By: FIDEP Foundation, Ghana May, 2026 The article presents a compelling and politically nuanced view of the growing disconnect between global climate finance systems and the realities of rural ecological resilience in West Africa. While climate finance is increasingly positioned as the cornerstone of the global response to climate change, the article argues that many of the communities already practicing long-term...