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Estimating farmers’ willingness to pay for weather index-based crop insurance uptake in West Africa: Insight from a pilot initiative in Southwestern Burkina Faso

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2018
Weather index-based crop insurance is increasingly becoming important as a risk mitigation strategy that farmers may use to mitigate adverse climate shocks and natural disasters encountered during farming.
William M. Fonta, Safietou Sanfo, Abbi M. Kedir, Djiby R. Thiam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of WRF Land Surface Model Performance over West Africa

Advances in Meteorology, 2020
Simulations with four land surface models (LSMs) (i.e., Noah, Noah-MP, Noah-MP with ground water GW option, and CLM4) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 12 km horizontal grid resolution were carried out as two sets for 3 months ...
Ifeanyi C. Achugbu, Jimy Dudhia, Ayorinde A. Olufayo, Ifeoluwa A. Balogun, Elijah A. Adefisan, Imoleayo E. Gbode   +5 more
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Location-allocation combining fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for waste to energy facilities siting in developing urban areas: The case study of Lomé, Togo

Heliyon, 2023
Waste facilities siting is one of the complex problems encountered by decision makers of waste management in urban developing areas. Waste to Energy (WtE) facilities siting alongside transfer stations involves a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA ...
Kanlanféi Sambiani, Yendoubé Lare, Adamou Zanguina, Satyanarayana Narra   +3 more
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Machine Learning-Based Reconstruction of Missing Meteorological Observations Using Reanalysis and Satellite Data in West Africa

Atmosphere
High-frequency meteorological observations from automatic weather stations (AWS) are frequently affected by substantial data gaps in data-sparse regions such as West Africa, limiting their usability for climate analysis and decision-making.
Marcel Jocelyn Wendemi Michaelange Toe, Belko Aboul Aziz Diallo, Adeshina Kamil Sanoussi, Valentin Ouedraogo, Samuel S. Guug, Kehinde O. Ogunjobi, Hamadou Barro, Adolphe Avocanh, Hermann Hien, Michael Ayamba   +9 more
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A note on methods for vertical accuracy assessment of DEMs

Geografia (Londrina), 2017
This study investigates the vertical accuracy of a DEMs interpolated from 1:50,000 contours with universal kriging (UK) using DEMs interpolated from 1:10,000 contours as the independent source of higher accuracy following the geospatial accuracy ...
Marvin E. Quesada, Matthew Marsik
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Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010 [PDF]

, 2015
Land use is a cornerstone of human civilization, but also intrinsically linked to many global sustainability challenges-from climate change to food security to the ongoing biodiversity crisis. Understanding the underlying technological, institutional and
Buergi, M., Mueller, D., Caspar, Gilles, Nikodemus, Olgerts, Ribokas, Gintras, Van Eetvelde, Veerle, Björn, I., Schistou, Despoina, Terkenli, T.S., Chromý, Pavel, Austrheim, Gunnar, Cassar, Louis F, Rudbeck Jespen, M., Bondeau, A., Pärn, Jaan, Tretvik, A.M., Austerheim, Gunnar, Krausmann, F., Zhllima, Edvin, Ostapowicz, K., Kuemmerle, T., Daugirdas, V., Daugirdas, Vidmantas, Elena-Rosselló, Ramon, Pinto-Correia, T., Tretvik, Aud, Vadineanu, A., Kladnik, Drago, McDonagh, John, Verburg, Peter H., Rudbeck Jepsen, Martin, Vadineanu, Angheluta, Van Eetvelde, V., Niedertscheider, Maria, Rounsevell, M., Vesterager, J.P., Cassar, Louis F., Terkenli, Theano S, Kozak, J., Trzepacz, P., Zhllima, Edvina, Erb, K., Pinto-Coreeia, T., Jepsen, M.R., Ribokas, G., Verburg, Peter H, Mander, U., Walz, Ariane, Andrič, Maja, Schmit, C., Verburg, P.H., Cassar, L.F., Terkenli, Theano S., Austrheim, G., Antrop, Marc, Pärn, J., Izakovicova, Z., Schistou, D., Andrič, M., Verburg, Peter, Eetvelde, Veerle, Van, Ribokas, Gintaras, Müller, D., Kuemmerle, Tobias, Bürgi, Matthias, Karlheinz, Erb, Rounsevell, Mark, Haberl, H., Walz, A., Reenberg, Anette, Schmit, Claude, Chromý, P., Krausmann, Fridolin, Reenberg, A., Izakovicova, Zita, Haberl, Helmut, Pinto-Correia, Teresa, Tretvik, Aud M., Gummi, U., Müller, Daniel, Niedertscheider, M., Jančák, Vít, Conrad, E., Jepsen, Martin Rudbeck, Gimmi, Urs, Pérez-Soba, M., Eetvelde, V.V., Bryson, Jessica, Gimmi, U., Terkenli, Theano, Bondeau, Alberte, Bryson, J., Elena-Rosello, R., Konkoly-Gyuró, E., Kozak, Jacek, McDonagh, J., Jansson, U., Trzepacz, Piotr, Zhllima, E., Verburg, P.H.; id_orcid, Jansson, Ulf, Nikodemus, O., Cassar, Louis, Mander, Ülo, Pärnx, Jaan, Ostapowicz, Katarzyna, Konkoly-Gyuró, Eva, Antrop, M., Jansson, Ulf,, Erb, Karlheinz, Conrad, Elisabeth, Tretvik, Aud M, Jančák, V., Pérez-Soba, Marta, Vesterager, Jens Peter, Caspar, G., Vadineaunu, A., Elena-Rosselló, R., Kladnik, D., Björn, Ismo, Bürgi, M.   +120 more
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Identification of a Shiga toxin A‐derived peptide internalized into Gb3 receptor‐bearing cells via interaction with the Shiga toxin B subunit

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The process of internalization of the Shiga toxin A subunit via formation of a complex with the Shiga toxin B subunit, which specifically binds to the Gb3 receptor. The peptide is designed to act as a carrier of drugs into cancer cells. Here, we explored the potential of peptides derived from the catalytic A subunit of Shiga toxin (STxA) to be drug ...
Giulia Opassi, João C. Encarnação, Valeria Napolitano, Grzegorz Dubin, Grzegorz Popowicz, Karl Andersson, U. Helena Danielson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence from temperature analog for traditional and economic cities in Nigeria: implications for sustainable city-related actions

Discover Environment
Responding to the threats of climate change by cities requires taking relevant actions that will communicate future conditions in reliable and effective manner for sustainable and transformational climate actions.
Oluwatosin Femi Asonibare, Emmanuel Tanko Umaru, Francis Adesina, Adenle A. Ademola, Appollonia A. Okhimamhe   +4 more
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Assessing upper bounds for solar-powered controlled environment agriculture on existing cropland

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) has been proposed as a way of limiting cropland expansion and extending growing seasons, but these systems demand substantial amounts of energy, and their associated environmental impacts remain unclear.
S. A. Roberts, S. A. Roberts, K. Winkler, M. D. A. Rounsevell, M. D. A. Rounsevell, M. D. A. Rounsevell, A. Saxena, L. F. M. Marcelis, R. Fuchs   +8 more
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Survey data on key climate and environmental drivers of farmers’ migration in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Data in Brief, 2016
This article describes two datasets generated from various sources in south western Burkina Faso to identify the key climate and environmental drivers that cause farmers to migrate. The survey sampling is random but reasoned and rational.
Safiétou Sanfo, M. William Fonta, Ibrahim Boubacar, P.A. John Lamers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source