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Perils facing Kenyan pastoralists, livelihood innovations and wider impacts: learning from project experience

open access: yesDevelopment Studies Research, 2021
This paper shares findings from a detailed empirical analysis of seven development projects in Kenya that supported remote pastoral communities facing food insecurity and other difficulties linked to environmental degradation and climate change.
Jules Siedenburg
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Modeling the Country’s Participation in Armed Conflict Resolution: Case of Germany’s Activity in Mali

open access: yesVestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2023
In the early 2020s, the challenges of maintaining a Western presence in the zones of armed conflicts in Asia and Africa increased dramatically. This was most evident in Afghanistan, while notable difficulties were also observed in the Sahara-Sahel region.
Philipp O. Trunov
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Solar Cooking in the Sahel [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2014
Solar cookers have the potential to help many of the world's poorest people, but the availability of sunshine is critical, with clouds or heavy atmospheric dust loads preventing cooking. Using wood for cooking leads to deforestation and air pollution that can cause or exacerbate health problems.
Beth Newton   +5 more
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Microcystic Changes in the Retinal Internal Nuclear Layer Associated with Optic Atrophy: A Prospective Study

open access: yesJournal of Ophthalmology, 2014
Purpose. This study aimed at assessing the prevalence of pathologies presenting retinal inner nuclear layer (RINL) microcystic perimacular changes associated with optic nerve atrophy (OA).
Benjamin Wolff   +5 more
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Alternate phenotype–genotype selection for developing superior high-yielding irrigated rice lines

open access: yesCrop Journal, 2018
Increase grain yield potential is one of the most important objectives of any cereal crop breeding program. To efficiently develop superior rice lines by the introgression of favorable alleles for yield and yield component traits, a strategy of alternate
Yonnelle Dea Moukoumbi   +4 more
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Mali’s participation in the West Africa’s integration processes

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Economics, 2021
The first ever integration bloc in Africa was formed back in the colonial era in 1910, when a number of British colonies were integrated. Modern integration processes in the African countries in the south of the Sahara began much later, from the early ...
Inna V. Andronova, Mama Dembele
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Ensuring sustainability via accessible transport systems for all in Accra and Kumasi [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
Africa is rapidly urbanising, and transport systems often cannot keep pace, leading to disconnected cities that might entrench car dependency (and preference), along with gender and socioeconomic inequality.
Agyemang Ernest   +4 more
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Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison’s Oraliture: Writing Fiction against the Grain

open access: yesMetacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2019
This paper attempts to demonstrate how Ellison and Morrison’s prose is interwoven with markers of oral literature, oraliture or orature. This oraliture draws upon African culture. To better deconstruct the Africanism or the different fragments of African
Ousseynou Sy
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Evaluation of sixteen reference evapotranspiration methods under sahelian conditions in the Senegal River Valley

open access: yesJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2015
Study region: Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) plays a key role in irrigation systems design, water management under irrigated and rainfed production.
Koffi Djaman   +9 more
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Azawad As a Self-proclaimed Tuareg State

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2021
The author was set to find out the fundamental reasons for the separatism of the Tuareg community in the Republic of Mali. The article examines the evolution of the political identity of the Tuaregs and the consolidation of scatted nomadic tribes into a ...
V. R. Filippov
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