Senegal River
Water constraints and flood-recession agriculture in the Senegal river valley
... All four countries share a common interest in giving priority to electricity generation. These countries have a vital need for electricity, the demand for which is growing by almost 10% per year. Power outages in large ...
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Trend and Sensitivity Analysis of Reference Evapotranspiration in the Senegal River Basin Using NASA Meteorological Data
... The Senegal River basin is divided into two large geographic units: the upper basin and the lower ...the river flows north into ...the Senegal river basin and the source of the main ...
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'(Dis)ordered intensification?' Techno-political models, resource access and pastoralist/agribusiness relations in the Middle Valley of the Senegal River
... https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/nomp/2019/00000023/00000001/art00002 Abstract Since the 1990s, the scientific literature has shown how the technical model of intensification of livestock production is ...
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Combining multi-sensor satellite imagery to improve long-term monitoring of temporary surface water bodies in the Senegal river floodplain
... * Correspondence: andrew.ogilvie@ird.fr Received: 21 July 2020; Accepted: 14 September 2020; Published: 26 September 2020 Abstract: Accurate monitoring of surface water bodies is essential in numerous ...
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CROP-SCALE INVESTIGATIONS OF SOIL SALINIZATION PROCESS IN RELATION WITH SHALLOW SALTY GROUNDWATER IN THE SENEGAL RIVER DELTA
... The first author would like to warmly thank the Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) office for having financed the PhD research and the accommodation costs during GQ2019. PACODEL-ULiège is also warmly tanked for ...
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Low and seasonal malaria transmission in the middle Senegal River basin: identification and characteristics of Anopheles vectors.
... Seasonal variations of Anopheles density and variety were observed with higher human biting rates during the rainy season (8.28 and 7.55 Anopheles bite/man/night in October 2008 and 2009 respectively). Transmission was ...
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West Nile virus transmission in sentinel chickens and potential mosquito vectors, Senegal River Delta, 2008-2009
... 5. Conclusions Our results highlighted WNV transmission in sentinel chickens in the Senegal River Delta. Moreover, we identified mosquito vectors possibly involved in WNV transmission. Because this area is ...
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Attempted cultivation of Jatropha curcas L. in the lower Senegal river valley: story of a failure
... Eucalyptus camadulensis, which are recommended in the area, in order to promote the development of annual and perennial crops, was not evaluated due to lack of time (12). It appears, however, unlikely that the latter ...
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Principal disease and Insect pests of Jatropha curcas L. in the lower valley of the Senegal river
... in Senegal, in order to evaluate the true potentials of Jatropha in terms of combating rural poverty in Sudano-Sahelian Africa ...lower Senegal river ...
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en fr The impact of development policies on pastoral adaptation : The case of the Senegal river delta L’impact des politiques de développement sur l’adaptation pastorale : le cas du delta du fleuve Sénégal
... This thesis aims to question the way in which development policies, principally those related to agriculture, impact the adaptation to climate change of livestock farmers in the Senegal River delta. The ...
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Choosing between African and French destinations : the role of family and community factors in migration from the Senegal River Valley
... However, both the bivariate and the multivariate results show that families living in villages served by irrigation are more, not less, likely to send sons to France, as [r] ...
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Fat and muscle mass in different groups of pre-pubertal and pubertal rural children. Cross-cultural comparisons between Sahelian (rural Senegal) and Amazonian (Beni River, Bolivia) children.
... The Senegalese climate is hot and dry, with sparse rains from July to October. Rainfalls vary between 300 and 600 mm. Inhabitants are Muslims farmers and herders belonging to related ethnic groups: Tokolor in the north ...
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Migration Networks in Senegal
... nants and migration networks on Senegalese data can be found. And yet, a number of historical, sociological or anthropological case studies on Senegalese migrations document the importance and functioning of a large ...
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Soil degradation in the Senegal lower valley
... compact material with coarse prismatic to vertic structure, and a light brown color. Numerous iron pipes were observed from 0.5 cm downwards associated with coarse (1 or 2 cm) gyspum nodules. In the soil beneath, the ...
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Future Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows of Two Main West Africa River Basins: Senegal and Gambia
... two river basins under ...Gambia River Basin projected a decrease from 93% (CanESM2 model) to 6% (HADGEM2_ES model) under ...the Senegal River Basin, the simulation results projected a ...
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Contrasting biogeochemical characteristics of the Oubangui River and tributaries (Congo River basin)
... This work was financially supported by the European Research Council (StG 240002: AFRIVAL: ‘‘African river basins: catchment-scale carbon fluxes and transformations’’), two travel grants to S.B. from the Research ...
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Where the Amazon river meet the Orinoco river: Archaeology of the Guianas
... Arauquinoid people occupied a ter- ritory of approximately 600 km long between Guyana and French Guiana, where the raised-field technique was intensively used for almost one millen- nium before the European Conquest. ...
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Intra-household inequalities, inequality and poverty in Senegal
... (0.00) (0.01) (0.89) Source: PSF2006/2007, N=1728, authors’ calculations, using sampling weights. . Bootstrap standard errors (250 replications) between parentheses For total consumption, the share of within-households ...
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Estimating river discharge from earth Observation measurement of river surface hydraulic variables
... of river mon- itoring (Gordon, 1989; Morlock, 1996; Oberg and Mueller, ...on river discharges worldwide or on large trans-boundary river basins is an extremely complex task, if it is indeed ever ...
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Environmental impact of tsetse eradication in Senegal
... this project will greatly benefit human and animal health, will significantly increase welfare, will improve the socio-economic status of the farmers, and significantly increase food security in the Niayes area around ...
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