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Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In many regions of the world, the adoption of new livelihood strategies that compete with traditional strategies is one driver of competition over land, resulting in unforeseen impacts on the livelihoods of land users and accelerating land degradation. One example is the Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia, where the expansion of crop cultivation
Gunnar Dressler +2 more
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Development 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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Metagenomics-based detection of viruses infecting cowpea in Burkina-Faso. [P.30] [PDF]
, 2015 Viral geometagenomics studies, which combine next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods with new possibilities to trace individual sequences to geo-referenced locations and/or hosts are currently providing high resolution qualitative data on plant viral ...
Bouma Neya, James +8 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Implementing nature‐based climate solutions is important for mitigating climate change, which is a global issue, but requires local adjustments in management practices. Using the association between soil carbon and minerals as a proxy for carbon persistence, we evaluated the effect of different management regimes on soil carbon sequestration and loss ...
Adam Pellegrini +3 more
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Ranking, risk-taking and effort: an analysis of the ECB's foreign reserves management [PDF]
The investment of the ECB reserves in US dollars and yen, delegated to a network of portfolio managers in the Eurosystem’s national central banks, involves a periodic assessment of performance against a common benchmark, controlled by the ECB and subject
Sahel, Benjamin, Scalia, Antonio
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Climate change‐driven expansion of goosegrass highlights risks to global food production
Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Climate change is expanding the climatic suitability of Eleusine indica into temperate agricultural regions, increasing its overlap with major soybean and maize production areas. These findings highlight a growing global threat to food security and the need for proactive weed management strategies.
Thiago Deomar Ludwig +4 more
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‘Security — Development’ Nexus in French Academic Discourse: On France’s Policy in the Sahel
Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политикаAgainst the backdrop of rising anti-French sentiments in the Sahel region, debates have intensified within both Russian and foreign scholars regarding the reasons for the apparent crisis, if not the failure, of the Fifth Republic’s African policy. At the
E. A. Abramova
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Rainfall Intra-Seasonal Variability and Vegetation Growth in the Ferlo Basin (Senegal)
Remote Sensing, 2016 During the monsoon season, the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall impacts the growth of vegetation in the Sahel. This study evaluates this effect for the Ferlo basin in central northern Senegal. Relationships between rainfall, soil moisture (SM), and
Soukèye Cissé +5 more
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The impact of global changes on agriculture: the case of Ivorian Basin of Comoe River. [P-3330-16] [PDF]
, 2015 Since some decades, the Ivorian Comoe river Basin faced environmental and climatic changes. As one of rainfed agriculture leading forces, climate conditions display (here) a major role in agriculture transformations.
Dabissi, N. +6 more
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Modelling monsoons: understanding and predicting current and future behaviour [PDF]
, 2011 The global monsoon system is so varied and complex that understanding and predicting its diverse behaviour remains a challenge that will occupy modellers for many years to come.
Giannini, Alessandra +6 more
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