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Climate Change, Land Use, and the Decline in Traditional Fulani Cattle Practices: Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Kwara, Nigeria

Challenges
This paper presents a case study of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria, whose traditional ethnoveterinary practices risk being lost as the country transitions to more intensive and enclosed livestock practices.
Jennifer Cole, Mutiat A. Adetona, Afisu Basiru, Wasiu A. Jimoh, Somrat Abdulsalami, Rodhiat O. Ade-Yusuf, Karimat A. Babalola, Victoria O. Adetunji, Akeem O. Ahmed, Ismail A. Adeyemo, Abiola M. Olajide, Abdulfatai Aremu, Ismail A. Odetokun, Mahmoud Eltholth   +13 more
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Serological examination of trypanosomes infestation in cattle reared in Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2019
Background & objectives: Cattle population is relatively dense in Nasarawa State (Nigeria) particularly in Keffi and its environs, where there are more Hausa/Fulani settlers whose main occupation is farming and herding.
K O Idahor, M M Adua, D F Saleh
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Ethnic fertility behavior and internal migration in Nigeria: revisiting the migrant fertility hypotheses

Genus, 2020
Fertility patterns in Nigeria are high and widely skewed away from the targets of the country’s population policy. As population growth is fueled by natural increase and migration, and with spatial disparities in fertility preferences among the different
Clifford O. Odimegwu, Yemi Adewoyin
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Fine‐tuning quantitative agronomic traits by manipulating gene copy number in rice

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 4, Page 1609-1616, August 2026.
Although plant pan‐genome studies have revealed extensive copy number variations, their phenotypic consequences remain poorly understood. Here, we manipulated the copy number of OsMADS18 in rice (Oryza sativa) cv ‘Hitomebore’ using the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
Chihiro Nomura, Hiroyuki Kanzaki, Eiko Kanzaki, Motoki Shimizu, Kaori Oikawa, Hiroe Utsushi, Kazue Ito, Yusaku Sugimura, Ryohei Terauchi, Akira Abe   +9 more
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Variabilité socio-écologique, crise du pastoralisme et résilience des Peuls pasteurs du Gourma rural (Burkina Faso)

VertigO, 2016
Combining empirical research and state of art on pastoral practices and regimes of animal ownership of pastoral societies in Africa and Burkina Faso in particular, this paper explores the strategies of resilience of Fulani pastoralists of rural Gourma in
Gabin Korbéogo
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The Cattle are ‘Ghanaians’ but the Herders are Strangers: Farmer-Herder Conflicts, Expulsion Policy and Pastoralist Question in Agogo, Ghana

African Studies Quarterly, 2015
The phenomenon of farmer-herders conflict across West Africa has prompted management strategies by several governments across the subcontinent. One of the conflict resolution mechanisms has been the policy of expulsion, which the Ghanaian state adopted ...
Azeez Olaniyan, Michael Francis, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike   +2 more
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Establishment of Adamawa Emirate and its Legacies in Northern Cameroon

Vestiges: Traces of Record
This paper traces the historical construction of identity in northern Cameroon from early state formations to the Fulani jihad of the nineteenth century.
Martin Zachary Njeuma
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Participatory epidemiology of endemic diseases in West African cattle – Ethnoveterinary and bioveterinary knowledge in Fulani disease control

One Health, 2018
Fulani pastoralists in Nigeria lack adequate access to good quality veterinary services and often resort to treating their animals themselves. There are several negative aspects to this, including poor treatment outcomes, misuse of veterinary drugs and ...
Ayodele O. Majekodunmi, Charles Dongkum, Christopher Idehen, Dachung Tok Langs, Susan C. Welburn   +4 more
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Les impatientes by Djaïli Amadou Amal: Between Enunciation and Denunciation of Patriarchy [PDF]

Uirtus
The aim of this paper is to analyse how Djaïli Amadou Amal’s novel, in describing the life of women among the Fulani of northern Cameroon, denounces cultural and religious practices embodied by men and which are dehumanising for women. Using the scene of
Akpéné Délalom Agbessi, Essotorom Tchao   +1 more
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Jeux de lettres et apprentissage du fulfulde

Syn-Thèses, 2015
The problem of teaching the Cameroonian languages has always sharpened the scientific and academic research. The implementation of this teaching is perceived as a practice in which it is necessary to pay attention given that the French and English ...
Frédéric Téguia Bogni
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