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Food Risk Assess Europe, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2025.Abstract The migratory phenomenon has had a significant demographic impact in Spain in recent years. Currently, 6.8 million foreign nationals have established their habitual residence in our country, representing 14 % of the total resident population. Within the acculturation process of the immigrant population ‐ through which they adopt the lifestyle ...
Irene Bretón Lesmes +6 more
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Pastoralism and Socio-technological Transformations in Northern Benin [PDF]
, 2017 Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are the Fulani pastoralists responding to these threats to their existence?
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 704-718, May 2025.White fonio (Digitaria exilis [Kippist] Stapf) is an understudied millet crop, indigenous to West Africa and cultivated in the region largely through traditional practices. This species is climate‐resilient, fast‐growing, nutritionally rich, and provides livelihoods and food security to rural communities.
George Burton +9 more
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The Fulani’s pastoral security strategies in the Ferlo region (Senegal)
, 2009 Chez les pasteurs peuls du Ferlo, les liens socio-économiques et symboliques entre le campement et son troupeau bovin connaissent de grands changements, marqués notamment par le rôle économique croissant des petits ruminants. Différents modes de gestion se mettent en place qui renvoient à des stratégies de protection contre les risques.
Ancey, Véronique +4 more
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Peace &Change, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 152-175, April 2025.Abstract Why do some pastoralists join bandit groups in Nigeria? This conundrum is yet to be explored in the emerging scholarly literature on pastoral banditry in Nigeria's troubled northwest region. Whereas the upsurge in pastoralist‐related banditry has been predominantly explicated with the theoretical frameworks of ungoverned spaces and relative ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 17-47, April 2025.Abstract Since Nigeria’s return to democratic governance in 1999, there have been renewed calls―predominantly amongst ethnic Igbos in southeast Nigeria―for the restoration of the defunct secessionist state of Biafra. The resurgent Biafran separatism has been explored through the prisms of relative marginalisation and material deprivation. However, some
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.This study analyzed HLA class II genes in over 1,000 individuals from 23 African populations, revealing genetic diversity influenced by geography, culture, and environment, with a significant link between Plasmodium falciparum prevalence and variation at the DPB1 gene.
Thomas Goeury +11 more
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity
Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva +20 more
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2025.This study tracks long‐term body weight trends in Gobra zebu cattle reared at the CRZ of Dahra (1952–2018). Results reveal significant growth patterns under optimal management, emphasizing the importance of reinstating breeding programmes and developing predictive models for early animal selection and performance evaluation. ABSTRACT The socio‐economic
Babacar Souleymane Sambe +4 more
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Changing human–nature relationships: Insights from Guinea‐Bissau woodlands
People and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 2587-2601, December 2024.Abstract The ecological impacts of landscape changes resulting in significant simplification of natural systems have been extensively studied worldwide. Yet, few studies have examined how such biophysical changes affect the value local communities place on nature and their relationships with it.
Ana Leite +4 more
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