Sahel Region
Malnutrition Among Children in the Sahel Region: Causes, Consequences and Prevention
... Furthermore, agriculture is overwhelming rain – fed in the Sahel region, resulting in marked year – to – year fluc- tuations in food production, particularly for cereals. The countries irrigation potential ...
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Evaluating global reanalysis datasets as input for hydrological modelling in the Sudano-Sahel region
... Recently, reanalysis datasets have been used as input for hydrological modelling in many studies with different degrees of successes recorded. For example, Essou et al. [13] used CFSR, ERA-Interim, MERRA and WFDEI as ...
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Assessment of Drought Occurrences Over the Sahel Region of Nigeria using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)
... the Sahel region of Nigeria, the months of Jan – April and Oct – Dec are very significant and can be used to predict for drought over the ...the Sahel region that many studies did not focus ...
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Challenges of Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development among the Kanuri in the Sahel Region of Yobe State in Nigeria
... the Sahel region and those in Yobe state and Nigeria must be willing to adopt the above stated strategies as attempt to eradicate poverty and enhance sustainable development among the Kanuri people of the ...
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The EU as a Global Actor in Good Governance and Counter Terrorism in the Sahel Region A Case Study on Mali and Niger
... Next to the governance and security problems that I will assess below, Niger faces extreme poverty, high illiteracy rates and population growth. 155 According to the Human Development Index, Niger is even the least ...
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Evaluation of Tree Species for Agroforestry Practice on Entisols in the Sudan Sahel Region of Nigeria
... Sudan Sahel region, naturally regenerated trees are the major source of domestic wood, medicinal extracts, supplementary food, dry season feed, and soil replenishment (Barrott [1], Verinumbe [2] and Hubert ...
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Incorporating the effects of humidity in a mechanistic model of Anopheles gambiae mosquito population dynamics in the Sahel region of Africa
... the Sahel, where dry season RH regularly drops to levels known to significantly decrease mosquito longevity, relative humidity can be as important as temperature and rainfall in determining the environmental ...
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Background albedo dynamics improve simulated precipitation variability in the Sahel region
... In this study we have focused on the effect of two land surface processes that have the potential to affect precipita- tion variability in the Sahel: vegetation dynamics and albedo dynamics. The terms “dynamic ...
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Evaluating global reanalysis precipitation datasets with rain gauge measurements in the Sudano-Sahel region: case study of the Logone catchment, Lake Chad Basin
... Figures 4(b) & (c) show the average annual rainfall from stations located in the semi(arid (latitude 10° ( 12°) and Sudano (latitude 6° (10°) areas respectively. The figures show that both reanalysis products were ...
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Non-linear intensification of Sahel rainfall as a possible dynamic response to future warming
... models: a pronounced rainfall increase north and east of the present core monsoon region (Fig. 2; notice that while CanESM2 has only a moderate wetting trend over the cen- tral Sahel region analyzed ...
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Desertification, resilience, and re-greening in the African Sahel – a matter of the observation period?
... – Recovery of vegetation predominantly depends on soil types as shown in Sect. 4.1. The author’s own field- and EO-based studies for Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger since the early 1990s show a favourable situation on ...
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Monitoring Drought Occurrence over the Sahel and Sudan Savannah of Nigeria Using NDVI
... the region, the western part of the study area experienced severe drought ...the region experienced no drought at all although a slight drought condition was spotted but no so ...the region ...
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Dynamical Outlines of the Rainfall Variability and the ITCZ Role over the West Sahel
... semiarid Sahel region (10˚N - 20˚N and 18˚W - 20˚E, ...The Sahel exhib- its quasi-regular low-frequency modes of precipitation variability on both interannual and intraseasonal time ...
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REVISITING TREE SPECIES AVAILABILITY AND USAGE IN THE FERLO REGION OF SENEGAL: A RATIONALE FOR INDIGENOUS TREE PLANTING STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GREAT GREEN WALL FOR THE SAHARA AND THE SAHEL INITIATIVE
... the Sahel was faced with several bouts of severe drought which exacerbated the situation for local ...Ferlo region of Northern Senegal, the heart of the Senegalese Sahel, was no exception (Miehe et ...
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Future supply and demand of net primary production in the Sahel
... We also compare total yearly means of NPP from BME and LPJ-GUESS to NPP derived from the MOD17A3 pro- cessing stream (using MOD17A3 data obtained from the NASA Earth Observation System repository at the Univer- sity of ...
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Migration in the West African Sahel more than a response to climate change
... Evidence shows that changing and unsteady envi- ronmental conditions lead to changing migration patterns in the Sahel region. However, environ- mental stress is not usually the major factor that causes ...
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Rebel diplomacy and digital communication: public diplomacy in the Sahel
... the Sahel region: the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA by its French abbreviation), a Tuareg separatist group, and Ansar Dine, a group with an Islamist ideology that was labelled a ...
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The Nubian Vault: Earth roofs in the Sahel
... the Sahel region who could benefit from discovering and adapting the VN technique to their own ...the Sahel are built entirely in earth, and have been in use for decades, if not centuries, as long as ...
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Agricultural Productivity, Drought, and Economic Growth in Sahel
... A standardized precipitation index is used in a regression analysis to quantify the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in Sahel. I first estimate a Malmquist productivity index and its ...
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Insecurity and pastoral development in the Sahel
... In pastoral societies, insecurity is not limited to the ecosystem. Social inequality and insecurity have been, and remain, an important feature of pastoral societies (Baxter and Hogg, 1990; Ilie, 1987). In West African ...
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