2017-3-7 · Understanding the patterns of biodiversity distribution and what influences them is a fundamental pre-requisite for effective conservation and sustainable utilisation of biodiversity. Such knowledge is increasingly urgent as biodiversity responds to the ongoing effects of global climate change. Nowhere is this more acute than in species-rich tropical Africa, where so little is known about ...
1999-1-1 · OCHA coordinates the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises. We advocate for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
2016-3-1 · The study was conducted in the Tobé-Kpobidon (TK) community forest and its three bordering villages (Itchokobo, Issale and Akpaka).The TK forest is located in Mid-West Benin (8°18–8°20′ N and 1°50–1°52′ E), in the Sudano-Guinean phytochorological transition zone (White, 1983).The rainfall regime is bimodal with a trend to unimodal regime.
2018-6-29 · Une formation végétale méconnue pour l''Afrique tropicale, la méga - ... une petite saison moins pluvieuse en novembre-décembre (station de Tamale, Ghana). III. MÉTHODES D''ÉTUDE ... 1964), avec précision des coordonnées de la station (latitude, longitude, altitude par utilisation d''un GPS, Global Positioning System), notation du ...
2020-4-3 · This study aims to identify the drivers of environmental degradation due to the dependency of surrounding residents on three protected areas in Togo, Africa (Oti-Keran, Togodo, and Abdoulaye national parks (abbr. OTA national parks)). Surveys of villagers conducted in and around the OTA national parks added to data downloaded from Indexmundi data portal.
Global trade of crop and animal-sourced food has increased by around 5 times between 1961 and 2013 (FAOSTAT 2018 17). During this period, global food availability has increased from 2200 kcal/cap/day to 2884 kcal/cap/day, making a transition from a food deficit to …
The increase in the urban population and the high concentration of many anthropogenic activities in certain regions of the world lead to atmospheric disturbances. The excess concentration of several chemical elements leads to air pollution. In order to identify the types of air pollutants, a study was carried out in the city of Lomé, the capital of Togo.
2021-9-3 · La viande végétale pourrait peser 10 % du marché total des produits carnés d''ici 2029 (Barclays). Du steak high-tech à base de soja ou de pomme de terre, aux croquettes de poulet végétales, le secteur représente une véritable manne financière.
Mandate: MASHAV, Israel''s Agency for International Development Cooperation, representing the State of Israel and its people, shares the global responsibility of achieving sustainable development and social equity through empowering and equipping communities in the developing world with the tools and skills to overcome poverty and obstacles to development, enabling them to elicit sustainable ...
2012-9-25 · Purpose Perennial crops globally provide a lot of fruit and other food products. They may also provide feedstock for bioenergy and have been, notably to this end, the subject of several LCA-based studies mostly focusing on energy and GHG balances. The purpose of this review was to investigate the relevance of LCAs on perennial crops, especially focusing on how the perennial crop …
2020-7-21 · When judged by ubiquity, adaptation, and emergence of new diseases, RNA viruses are arguably the most successful biological organisms. This success has been attributed to a defect of sorts: high mutation rates (low fidelity) resulting in mutant swarms that allow rapid selection for fitness in new environments. Studies of viruses with small RNA genomes have identified fidelity determinants in ...
2019-7-17 · Abstract Among several viable explanations for the ubiquitous SES-health gradient is differential exposure to environmental risk. We document evidence of inverse relations between income and other indices of SES with environmental risk factors including hazardous wastes and other toxins, ambient and indoor air pollutants, water quality, ambient noise, residential crowding, housing quality ...
General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from past festivals. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean).
2021-10-3 · Voices Only: ''I''ll Fly Away'' with an Ascending Voice. Welcome to Voices Only, your weekly dose of delightful a cappella. Here''s a beautiful rendition of "I''ll Fly Away," a hymn written in 1929 by Oklahoma native Albert E. Brumley. It''s thought to be one of the most-recorded gospel songs of all time.
Tareke Berhe, SAA - Global 2000, Kotoka International Airport, Post Office Private Mail Bag, Accra, Ghana (INTSORMIL collaborator) Jacques Beyo, IRA, Boîte Postale 33, Maroua, Cameroon. Taye Bezuneh, STRC-SAFGRAD, Organization of African Unity …
This paper, firstly, characterizes the mining waste of the Betare-Oya gold area (East Cameroon). Surface waters are sampled and characterized physically (pH, electrical conductivity, turbidity, and suspended solids) and chemically by the determination of trace metals (Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, Fe, Cr, As, and Pb). The concentrations of heavy metals in sediment samples are determined by X-ray ...
Description. Le Parc Naturel de Cova, Paúl et Ribeira da Torre (PNCPRT) est situé sur le côté nord de l''île de Santo Antão, plus précisément dans le nord-est, dans une zone de carrefour des trois communes, comprenant: Porto Novo 15,1% (316 ha), Paúl 42,6% (891 ha) et de Ribeira Grande de 42,3% (885 ha). L''altitude minimale dans le parc ...
global perspective, and that FAO and WHO should focus their efforts to develop scientific advice on this commodity grouping. • The 39th Session of the CCFH should take into account the outcome of the ranking exercise and the priority rankings assigned to the …
2020-6-1 · Pterocarpus erinaceus is a native tree species of the Guineo-Sudanian and Sudano-Sahelian zones where natural stands are under constant pressure and heavily exploited for timber, animal feeding and others uses. A part from the overexploitation, climate change could also become a serious threat to the species natural distribution. For that purposes, this study aims to assess the vulnerability ...
Global Ecol Biogeogr. 2021;30:459–475. ... Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana 28Departamento de Biologia, FFCLRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil 29Unité d''Ecologie Végétale et Biogéochimie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 30Cirad, Forêts et …
2021-7-1 · However, these aspects of farmers/agrobiodiversity interactions are still poorly understood, although an improved understanding of farmers'' knowledge of agrobiodiversity and their associated management practices is crucial if agricultural development initiatives are to match local realities and meet global change challenges (Altieri & Nicholls ...
2020-2-7 · Coronaviruses have frequently expanded their host range in recent history, with two events resulting in severe disease outbreaks in human populations. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in 2003 in Southeast …
2021-11-14 · Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) National Focal Points ... Laboratoire de Botanique et Ecologie Végétale Université d''Abomey-Calavi 01 BP 4521 +229 67792055, +229 93023875 ... Ghana 42. Tel.: P.O. Box 7 Bunso, E/R Ghana Director Plant Genetic Institute