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Melaku Gedil, Wende Mengesha, Oluyinka Ilesanmi and Abebe Menkir
Micron3 nutrient deficiencies are pervasive in the diets of millions of people in developing countries, calling for effective mitigation measures. The development of biofortified cultivars through breeding holds promise for sustainable and affordable sol...
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Gabriel Garbanzo, Jesus Céspedes, Joseph Sandoval, Marina Temudo, Paula Paredes and Maria do Rosário Cameira
The mangrove swamp rice production system (MSRPS) in West Africa faces significant challenges in soil, water, and salinity management, making rice production highly vulnerable to variations in the spatio-temporal distribution patterns of rainfall, which ...
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Kevin S. Sambieni, Fabien C. C. Hountondji, Luc O. Sintondji, Nicola Fohrer, Séverin Biaou and Coffi Leonce Geoffroy Sossa
Climate and land cover changes are key factors in river basins? management. This study investigates on the one hand 60-year (1960 to 2019) rainfall and temperature variability using station data combined with gridded data, and on the other hand land cove...
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Idi Souley Tangam, Roland Yonaba, Dial Niang, Mahaman Moustapha Adamou, Amadou Keïta and Harouna Karambiri
This study focuses on the Sirba River Basin (SRB), a transboundary West African catchment of 38,950 km2 shared by Burkina Faso and Niger, which contributes to flooding downstream in Niamey (Niger). The study uses the HEC-HMS hydrological model to explore...
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Peining Yang, Shengyi Mao, Yiyun Cao, Li Liu, Mengyue Zhai, Zhongyan Qiu and Lihua Liu
One gravity core retrieved from the Niger Delta was used to explore the origin of deposited organic matter (OM) and the paleo-climatic and environmental conditions over the Holocene in equatorial West Africa. The geochemical properties of sediments inclu...
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Mary Mulenga, Kennedy O. Ouma, Concillia Monde and Stephen Syampungani
Mercury (Hg) pollution remains an environmental global concern due to its non-degradable and toxic nature. Natural and anthropogenic sources of Hg adversely affect the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and biological processes. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA...
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Amadou Keïta, Malicki Zorom, Moussa Diagne Faye, Djim Doumbe Damba, Yacouba Konaté, László G. Hayde and Bruno Lidon
Obtaining accurate values of saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) is very important for managing all natural or artificial processes involving water flow into soils. Double-ring infiltration (DRI) is one of the easiest-to-work-with techniques commonly...
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Hansi Senaratne, Martin Mühlbauer, Ralph Kiefl, Andrea Cárdenas, Lallu Prathapan, Torsten Riedlinger, Carolin Biewer and Hannes Taubenböck
The fastest growing regional crisis is happening in West Africa today, with over 8 million people considered persons of concern. A culmination of identity politics, climate-driven disasters, and extreme poverty has led to this humanitarian crisis in the ...
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Nwabueze Emekwuru and Obuks Ejohwomu
Air pollution is a concern in the West Africa region where it is known that meteorological parameters such as ambient temperature and humidity can affect the particulate matter loading through atmospheric convection and dry deposition. In this study, we ...
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Katarzyna Pajak, Magdalena Idzikowska and Kamil Kowalczyk
The sea surface is variable in time and space; therefore, many researchers are currently interested in searching for dependencies and connections with the elements influencing this diversity, e.g., with the seabed topography. An important problem is comb...
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