Sorghum production in Mali faces challenges, including low soil fertility and climate variability. To assess the effects of management practices (fertilizer types, sowing dates) on biomass and grain yields, as well as water ...
Greenhouse gas from rice production has become a great concern and the focus of a lot of research in recent years. The
main aim of the study was to explore the research trend of GHG emissions from rice production by ...
Diedhiou, Simeon; Maiga, Alassane; Himbane, Philippe B.; Iboko, Maduabuchi P.; Ndiaye, Lat Grand; Diedhiou, Ibrahima(WASCAL, 2024-07-03)
Poor agricultural soil management practices and water use optimisation in irrigation are major challenges facing crop production
in Senegal. To address these problems, a factorial experiment was conducted in 2021 and 2022 ...
Combined application of biochar and nitrogen (N) fertilizer could offer opportunities to increase
rice yield and reduce methane emissions from paddy fields. However, this strategy may increase
nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, ...
Upon SRI’s successes and expansion globally, the system was introduced in West Africa in recent years. It was simultaneously introduced in both Baguinéda and Sélingué irrigated schemes, in 2018, by the German Society for ...
Mitigating the global climate crisis and its consequences,
such as more frequent and severe droughts, is one of
the major challenges for future agriculture. Therefore, identifying
land use systems and management practices ...
Spodoptera frugiperda is one of the main pests of maize (Zea mays L.) in Côte d'Ivoire. The control of this insect requires knowledge of biological and demographic parameters. The need to know the effect of seasons on the ...
Sani Issa, Mahaman Sanoussi; Saidou, A. A.; Jangorzo, N. S.; M., Karembe(WASCAL, 2024-01)
Family farms play an important role in food security and nutrition in West Africa.
Family farms are rapidly changing and face many constraints. Thus, characterizing
them is necessary for policy purposes. This study aimed ...
Drought is a major abiotic stress limiting rice growth and productivity, posing a
considerable threat to global food security. Understanding the molecular
mechanisms that regulate plant responses to water deficit is ...
Climate change, an effective driver of unprecedented seasonal droughts, is greatly affecting rice production in
Africa by threatening food security and safety. Rice, one of the major staple crops on the continent, can ...
Rice plays a paramount role in food and nutrition security in many West African countries. Despite the doubling of production during the last decade, rice consumption has grown faster, creating a deficit between the demand ...
In this study, impacts of rainfall and land use changes on soil erosion in Nasarawa State, Nigeria in changing climate, were investigated by applying remote sensing techniques, Geographical Information System (GIS) and the ...
Detarium microcarpum Guill. & Perr. is a multipurpose species, providing many ecosystem services.
However, in its geographical range, its multiple uses represent a major challenge to the
sustainable management and ...
The processing of biomass into fuel briquettes is one of the sustainable measures widely advocated for curtailing deforestation and meeting the energy needs of about 3 billion people living in energy poverty. Improving the ...
Yunusa, S. U.; Mensah, E.; Preko, K.; Narra, S.; Saleh, A.; Dalha, I. B.; Abdulsalam, M.(WASCAL, 2024-06-29)
Rice husk is among the most generated biomass residues in developing countries. If this abundant resource is effectively
valorized into fuel briquettes, the rate of deforestation and energy deficit in the region would be ...
The global increase in population coupled with poor access to clean energy has set pressure on solid fuel use.
Through this, about one-third of the world’s population currently relies on solid fuels (fuelwood, charcoal, ...
Biomass briquetting is gradually emerging as a means of sustainable energy production. The interest in briquetting has been
occasioned by the continuous rise in the cost of energy coupled with the need to harness efficient ...
West Africa is undergoing rapid agricultural intensification driven by population growth, leading
to significant anthropogenic land use and land cover change (LCC), including both deforestation
and afforestation. These ...
Extreme events like droughts frequently affect West Africa, known
as the world’s centre for cocoa production. In Ghana and Togo,
these extreme events negatively affect water supplies and agricultural
land productivity, ...
This study investigated the perception of drought by cocoa farmers and explored the
effectiveness of adaptive strategies (ASs) used in smallholding farms in the transboundary region
between Ghana and Togo. Drought ...