Search Results - "Mauritania"

Developments in risk-based decision making: Responding to the threat of Rift Valley fever (RVF) and other trans-boundary diseases by Jost, Christine, Minjauw, B., Mariner, Jeffrey C., Bett, Bernard K., Clark, A.

“…Plans are underway to apply the framework process in the regional context of North Africa using the lessons of the 2011 RVF outbreak in Mauritania.…”
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Bactrocera invadens (Diptera: Tephritidae), a new invasive fruit fly pest for the afrotropical region: host plant range and distribution in West and Central Africa by Goergen, Georg E., Vayssières, Jean-François, Gnanvossou, D., Tindo, M.

“…B. invadens occurs in 22 countries ofWCAwith new records for Angola, Central African Republic, the Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Sierra Leone. Overall, the pest has spread across a North-South distance of 5,000 km representing a contiguous area of 8.3 million km2 within WCA. …”
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Actual evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of irrigated lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) under semiarid climate by Djaman, K., Rudnick, D.R., Moukoumbi, Y.D., Sow, A., Irmak, S.

“…The Senegal River is shared by Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, and Guinea, and serves as the main source of irrigation water for the adopted double rice cropping system. …”
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The evidence mapping of wasting programmes and their impact along the continuum of care for wasting in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid review protocol by Verstraeten, Roosmarijn, Touré, Mariama, Diatta, Dieynab, Huybregts, Lieven, Booth, Andrew, Becquey, Elodie

“…IRAM aims to generate evidence on wasting prevention and treatment interventions in four countries: Chad, Mauritania, Mali and Niger (multi-country partnership between UNICEF and IFPRI). …”
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Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Research Brief by Pul, Hippolyt, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Konde, Bernard B., Zogho, Donatus, Kuuchille, Emmanuel V., McCarthy, Nancy, Marivoet, Wim

“…In the Sahelian areas of Burkina Faso and Niger (as part of a broader regional program also covering Chad, Mali, and Mauritania), WFP promotes climate-resilient agricultural infrastructure and systems to help address issues of land degradation, deforestation, dwindling pasturelands, and depletion of water sources, which all trigger competition for productive resources and migration of people and livestock into better-resourced areas. …”
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Worldwide evaluations of quinoa: preliminary results from post International Year of Quinoa FAO projects in nine countries by Bazile, Didier, Pulvento, C., Verniau, A., Al Nusairi, M., Ba, D., Breidy, J., Hassan, L., Mohammed, M.I., Mambetov, O., Otambekova, M., Sepahvand, N., Shams, A., Souici, D., Miri, K., Padulosi, S.

“…Field evaluations were conducted during 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 in Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan), and the Near East and North African countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Mauritania, and Yemen). In each country, the trials were carried out in different locations that globally represent the diversity of 19 agrarian systems under different agro-ecological conditions. …”
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Development of Metarhizium spp. for the control of locusts and grasshoppers by Lomer, C.J., Prior, C., Kooyman, C.

“…Successful small-scale field trials have also been carried out using the standard M. flavoviride isolate in South Africa against brown locust and in Australia using an Australian isolate against wingless grasshopper. In Mauritania, a trial using the Niger isolate against desert locust nymph bands gave up to 90% mortality in caged samples by day 9 after spraying. …”
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