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Faire appel à

Un appel

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To appeal to

An appeal

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Conseiller

Un conseiller

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To advise

An adviser / advisor

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Prévenir, éviter (un désastre ou une catastrophe)

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To advert, avoid, prevent (a disaster or a catastrophe)

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Une campagne

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A campaign

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Une organisation caritative

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A charity

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Recueillir, collecter

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To collect, to raise

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Un envoi

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A consignment, a shipment

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Un convoi

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A convoy

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Coopérer

La coopération

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To cooperate

cooperation

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L’allègement de la dette

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Debt relief

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Livrer

Une livraison

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To deliver

A delivery

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Faire don

Un don

Un donnateur

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To donate

A donation

A donor

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L’équipement

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Equipment

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Les fonds

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Funds

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Accorder

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To grant

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Une aide financière

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A grant

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Une aumône

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A hand-out

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Un couloir humanitaire

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A humanitarian corridor

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An NGO (Non Governmental Organisation)

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Une ONG, une organisation non gouvernementale

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Outside/foreign aid

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L’aide extérieur / étrangère

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Rembourser

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To pay back, to repay

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Un projet

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A project, a scheme

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L’aide humanitaire

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Relief aid, humanitarian aid

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Les équipes de secours

Les secours

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Relief workers

Relief

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Le remboursement

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Repayment

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Rééchelonner

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To reschedule

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L’auto-assistance

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Self-help

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Une contrepartie

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A string

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L’aide-liée, conditionnée

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Tied aid

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Un outil

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A tool

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Le PNUD (Plan des Nations Unies pour le Développement)

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The UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

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L’ONU (l’Organisation des Nations unies)

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The UN (the united Nation)

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L’aide non liée

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Untied aid

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Une agence bénévole

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A voluntary agency

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Une organisation humanitaire

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A voluntary organisation

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Un bénévole

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A volunteer

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Annuler

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To write off, to cancel

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Le taux de natalité

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The birth rate

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Une case, une cabane

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A cabin

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Un recensement

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A census

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Industrialisé

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Developed, industrialised

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En voie de développement

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Developing emerging

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Un exode

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An exodus

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L’alphabétisation

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The elimination of illiteracy

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Sale, dégoûtant

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Filthy

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L’exode forcé

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Forced resettlement

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Une hutte

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A hut

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L’analphabétisme

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Illiteracy

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Analphabète

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Illiterate

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Appauvrir

L’appauvrissement

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To impoverish

Impoverishment

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Le taux de mortalité infantile

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The infant mortality rate

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Un afflux

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An influx

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Le taux alphabétisation

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The literacy rate

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Alphabétisé

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Literate

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Un abri provisoire, de fortune

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A makeshift shelter

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Une ville champignon

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A mushroom city/town

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Un indigène, un autochtone

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A native

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Un nomade

Nomade (adj)

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A nomade

Nomadic (adj)

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Une explosion démographique

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A population boom

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La croissance démographique

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The population growth

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La misère

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Poverty, destitution

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Précarité

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Precariousness

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Un réfugié

Un camp de réfugiés

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A refugee

A refugee camp

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To settle

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S’installer

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Un peuplement, une colonie

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A settlement

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Une cabane

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A shack

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Un bidonville

Un taudis

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A shanty town

A slum

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Les habitants des bidonvilles

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Slumdwellers

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Misérable, sordide (adj)

Conditions sordides

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Squalid

Squalor

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Un camp de squatters

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A squatter camp

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Un salaire de misère

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Starvation wages

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Développement durable

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Sustainable Development

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La désertification

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The advance of the desert, desertification

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Un désert

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A desert

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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Une pénurie alimentaire

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A food shortage

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Une urgence alimentaire

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A food emergency

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La faim

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Hunger

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Affamé

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Hungry

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Un manque de

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A lack of

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La malnutrition

Malnutri

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Malnutrition

Malnourished

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La situation difficile/critique

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The plight, the predicament

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Rare, peu abondant

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Scarce

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La rareté, la disette

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Scarcity

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Une insuffisance

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A shortfall

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Une pénurie de

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A shortage, a dearth of

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Manquer de nourriture

Le manque de nourriture

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To starv

Starvation

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Sous-alimenté

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Underfed

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Stérile, aride

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Barren

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Les produits de première nécessité

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Basic commodities

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Élever

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To breed (bred, bred)
To rear
To raise
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Les cultures de rente

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Cash crops

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Une marchandise primaire

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A commodity

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Une récolte

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A crop

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Une carence

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A deficiency

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Le déboisement

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Deforestation

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La désertification

Désertifier

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Desertification

To desertify

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Forer

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To drill, tp bore

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Éroder

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To erode

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L’érosion

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Erosion

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Exploiter

L’exploitation

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To exploit

Exploitation

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La terre en jachère

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Fallow land

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Affamé

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Famished

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Les produits agricoles

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Farm produce

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Cultiver

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To farm

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L’agriculture

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Farming

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Se nourrir de, vivre de

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To feed (fed, fed) on
To live on
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Abattre

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To fell, to chop down, to log

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Un troupeau de mouton

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A flock of sheep

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Les cultures vivrières

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Food crops

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Vivrier

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Food-producing

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Paître

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To graze

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Les pâturages

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Grazing land, pasture land

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Faire pousser, cultiver

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To grow (grew, grown)
To cultivate
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Une moisson

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A harvest

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Un troupeau de bétail

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A herd of cattle

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Irriguer

Un système d’irrigation

L’irrigation

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To irrigate

An irrigation system

Irrigation

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Le cheptel

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Livestock

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L’abattage

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Logging

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Bûcheronnage

Un bûcheron

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Lumbering

A lumberjack, a woodcutter

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Un minerai

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An ore

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Desséché

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Parched

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Un fléau (figuré)

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A plague

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Labourer

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To plough, to plow

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Le pillage

Piller

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Plunder

To plunder

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Produire

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To produce

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Une protéine

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A protein

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Une pompe

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A pump

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Les précipitations

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Rainfall

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Les matières premières

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Raw materials

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Le reboisement

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Reforestation

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Une ressource

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A resource

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Les semences

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Seeds

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L’auto-suffisance

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Self-sufficiency

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Auto-suffisant

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Self-sufficient

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Les eaux usées

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Sewage

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Semer

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To sow

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La nourriture de base

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Staple food

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Agriculture de subsistance

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Subsistence farming

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Un approvisionnement

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Supply

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Fournir qquechose a qqun

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To supply/provide sb with sth

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Un essaim de criquets

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A swarm of locusts

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L’eau du robinet

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Tapwater

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Exploiter

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To tap

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Un robinet

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A tap

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Tourmenter, affliger

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To plague

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La couche arable

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The topsoil

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Inexploité

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Untapped

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Un puits

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A well

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum seeker

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Tenter de traverser la mer/le fleuve

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To attempt the journey across the sea/river

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Se faire refouler à la frontière

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To be turned away at the border

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Le choc des cultures

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The clash of civilisations

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Faire face à la barrière de la langue

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To cope with the language barrier

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Réprimer l’immigration clandestine

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To crack down on illegal immigration

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Infléchir les flux migratoires

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To curb/to stem the flow of migrants

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Expulsion

Expulser

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Deportation

To deport/to expel from a country

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Un faux passeport

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A fake passport

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Fuir la misère/un régime politique

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To flee poverty / a political regime

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Le flux migratoire

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The flow of migrants

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Un travailleur clandestin

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An illegal worker

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Un étranger clandestin

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An illegal alien

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Un immigré

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An immigrant

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Un passeur

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An immigrant smuggler

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Un centre de rétention administrative

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An immigration detention centre

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Immigration

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Immigration

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Une politique d’immigration

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An immigration policy

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Quotas d’immigration

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Immigration quotas

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Une politique d’intégration

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An integration policy

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Être à la recherche de conditions de vie meilleures

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To look for better living conditions

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Un migrant

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A migrant

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Les préjugés raciaux

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Racial prejudice

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Le racisme

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Racism

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Demander l’asile politique

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To seek (sought, sought) political asylum

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Faire entrer clandestinement des gens

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To smuggle people

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Un passager clandestin

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A stowaway

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Renforcer les contrôles aux frontières

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To tighten border controls

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Les immigrés sans papiers

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Undocumented immigrants

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Le SIDA

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AIDS

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Le choléra

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Cholera

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Une épidémie

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An epidemic

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Séropositif

A

HIV positive

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Le virus VIH

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The HIV virus

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Un lépreux

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A leper

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La lèpre

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Leprosy

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Un dispensaire

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A local health centre

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La malaria, le paludisme

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Malaria

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Une pandémie

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A pandemic

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La polio

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Polio

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Très répandu

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Rampant

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Les installations sanitaires

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Sanitation

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Les maladies sexuellement transmissibles (MST)

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Sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STD)

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Une bombe a retardement

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A timebomb

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Le typhus

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Typhus

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Les maladies contractées par l’eau

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Water-borne diseases

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Achat éthique / équitable

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Ethical shopping

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Le commerce équitable

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Fair trade

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Les nantis et les déshérités

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The haves and the have-nots

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L’aide sans contrepartie

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Help with no strings attached

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Vivre au jour le jour

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To live from hand to mouth

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Le niveau de vie

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The standard of living

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Repartir à zéro

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To start (back) from scratch

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Épuiser le sol

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To wear (wore,worn) out the soil

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