Search Results - "Democratic Republic of the Congo"

Facultative nitrogen fixation by legumes in the central Congo basin is downregulated during late successional stages by Bauters, M., Mapenzi, N., Kearsley, E., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Boeckx, P.

“…We systematically assessed the changes in abundance and nodulation status of all legumes, across taxa and plant types, in a forest succession gradient in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our results clearly show that symbiotic N2 fixation is downregulated during late successional stages.…”
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Who Benefitted from the Peace Dividend in the DRC? by Marivoet, Wim, De Herdt, Tom, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…The first decade of the 21st century marked a new beginning for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). After the signing of a peace treaty in 2002, the country re-connected with the world to engage in post-conflict reconstruction. …”
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When forest-based hunter-gatherers become sedentary: consequences for diet and health by Dounias, E., Froment, A.

“…Examples are drawn from African Pygmy groups such as the Kola, Medjan and Baka of Cameroon, the Aka of the Central African Republic and the Efe and Mbuti of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and in Asia, the Punan, formerly nomadic forest dwellers of Borneo, in particular the Tubu Punan from the Tubu watershed of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. …”
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The nature of public agricultural spending in southern Africa by Matchaya, Greenwell C., Chilonda, Pius, Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso

“…In order to pursue the goals set out in this paper, analysis focused mainly on data on agricultural public expenditure for Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. …”
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Climate-smart agriculture practices based on precision agriculture: the case of maize in western Congo by Ulimwengu, John M., Kibonge, Aziza

“…Chapter 7 goes to the heart of the location specificity of CSA by investigating the potential benefits of using precision agriculture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, finding that this approach can boost sustainable productivity through increased efficiencies in the use of inputs. …”
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Lessons from a stocktaking evaluation of IFPRI’s experience with country programs by Hazell, Peter B. R., Place, Frank, Tollens, Eric

“…These teams worked in newly opened country program offices in Africa south of the Sahara (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda) as well as in Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, India, and Pakistan.…”
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Africa’s agricultural research pool by Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan, Flaherty, Kathleen

“…In contrast, less than half of researchers in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe hold graduate degrees.…”
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An ecogeographic study African vigna by Maxted, N., Mabuza-Diamini, P., Moss, H., Padulosi, S., Jarvis, A., Guarino, Luigi

“…Models that predict species richness have highlighted other areas with potentially higher species richness that are undersampled in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, and in central Togo. …”
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Capacity Building Workshop on Genetic Resource Policies for CGIAR Scientists and Partners in East Africa, 4 - 7 June 2019, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by CGIAR Genebank Platform

“…This event brought together 30 staff members from 6 CGIAR Centres and 10 participants from national agricultural research organizations in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. …”
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Challenges on the valorisation of local knowledge: Preliminary assessments in the Rubi-Tele Hunting Area (DRC) by Bisimwa, L., Musangu, E., Mampeta, S., Amundala, N., Sabongo, P., Sonwa, D.J.

“…The management of protected areas (PAs) and their surrounding landscapes is generally associated with the response of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to biodiversity conservation and climate change. …”
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Spatial typology for targeted food and nutrition security interventions by Marivoet, Wim, Ulimwengu, John M., Sedano, Fernando

“…The proposed typology is applied to the rural territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Despite a continuum of heterogenous development challenges across the country, the typology helps identify clusters of territories that suffer from production, access, and utilization constraints. …”
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The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states by Ragasa, Catherine, Golan, Jennifer

“…This research was conducted to identify strategies and approaches to strengthen local institutions in the agricultural sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Using a semi-structured interview approach with 181 rural producer organizations in three provinces of western DRC, this study finds varying types of rural producer organizations in the study areas and shows various internal and external factors affecting these organizations’ capacity to provide and facilitate agricultural services for their members. …”
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Rapid Climate Risk Assessment for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region by Quinn, Claire, Carrie, Rachel, Chapman, Sarah, Jennings, Stewart, Jensen, Paul, Smith, Harriet, Whitfield, Stephen

“…However, it is clear that medium-high climate risk (high vulnerability, medium-high climate hazard) is widespread across Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Mozambique, and Madagascar.…”
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Profiling the types of restaurants that sell wild meat in Central African cities by Wright, J.H., Malekani, D., Funk, S.M., Ntshila, J., Mayet, L., Mwinyihali, R., Fa, J.E., Wieland, M.

“…We surveyed 326 restaurants in Brazzaville and Kinshasa, the adjoining capital cities of the Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo, to determine which types of restaurants sell wild meat, how sales of wild meat dishes compared with those containing other proteins, and the importance of wild meat to these businesses. …”
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Towards understanding the diversity of banana bunchy top virus in the Great Lakes region of Africa by Niyongere, C., Lepoint, P.C.E., Losenge, T., Blomme, Guy, Ateka, E.M.

“…The genetic variability of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) isolates from the Great Lakes region of Africa (GLRA) spanning Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda was assessed to better understand BBTV diversity and its epidemiology for improved disease management. …”
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Mammal Depletion Processes as Evidenced From Spatially Explicit and Temporal Local Ecological Knowledge by Vliet, N. van, Muhindo, J., Nyumu, J.K., Mushagalusa, O., Nasi, R.

“…Here, based on a case study in Democratic Republic of the Congo, we use an ethnozoological approach, with a protocol that captures spatially explicit and temporal ecological knowledge on defaunation. …”
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Spatial food and nutrition security typologies for agriculture and food value chain interventions in Eastern DRC by Marivoet, Wim, Ulimwengu, John M., Bugeme, David M., Sanginga, Blandine, Thontwa, Sarah

“…To guide the design of future agriculture and food value chain interventions, this paper combines two existing spatial food and nutrition security typologies and applies them to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Apart from estimating absolute and relative inefficiencies along the food system from agricultural potential to nutrition, the integration of both typologies resulted in nine unique low efficiency profiles across the territories and major cities of the Greater Kivu region and Tanganyika. …”
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Training of Trainers (ToT) on Policy Practices and Analysis to Support Implementation of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and Climate Information Services (CIS) Course Module by Ekepu, David, Nakayiwa, Florence Mayega, Majaliwa, Jackson Gilbert Mwanjalolo, Murungweni, Chrispen, Bonou, Alice

“…The participants came from 27 countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Hungary, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. …”
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Current situation of cavy production in Cameroon: Challenges and opportunities by Niba, A.T., Meutchieye, F., Fon, D., Laisin, A.G., Taboh, H., Njakoi, H., Bela Tomo, A., Maass, Brigitte L., Djikeng, Appolinaire, Manjeli, Y.

“…The paper indicates that cavy production in Cameroon will have a face lift as a new project on ‘Harnessing husbandry of domestic cavy for alternative and rapid access to food and income in Cameroon and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’ has been implemented since early 2012. …”
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Carbon Stocks in Miombo Woodlands: Evidence from over 50 Years by Bulusu, M., Martius, C., Clendenning, J.

“…Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo.…”
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