Search Results - "Burkina Faso"

The Inata deposit, Belahouro District, northern Burkina Faso by McCuaig, T., Fougerouse, Denis, Salvi, S., Siebenaller, L., Parra-Avila, L., Seed, R., Béziat, D., André-Mayer, A.

“…The Inata gold deposit is hosted in the Bouroum greenstone belt of northern Burkina Faso and contains ca. 5 Moz of gold resource. …”
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The dynamics of land use in the province of Kossi, North-West Burkina Faso by Sanogo, Salifou, Karambiri, Bienvenue Lawankilea Chantal Noumpoa, Badini, Mahamoudou, Yanogo, Pawendkisgou Isidore

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Dynamics of classified forests in the urban district of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso by Francoise, Valea, Karambiri, Bienvenue Lawankilea Chantal Noumpoa, Sanou, Korotimi

“…In Burkina Faso, the natural environment is subject to continuous degradation of its forest resources. …”
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‘So far and yet so near’: Cuba and revolutionary Burkina Faso by Pritchard, Liam

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Factors associated with female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso and its policy implications by Karmaker, B., Kandala, N., Chung, Donna, Clarke, A.

“…Several factors have been associated with an increased likelihood of FGM. In Burkina Faso, the prevalence of FGM appears to have increased in recent years. …”
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Accessibility to the drinking water sources in Burkina Faso: the case study of Toessin and Bonogo villages by Moumouni, Nabaloum, Pounyala, Ouoba Awa, Dapola, Da Evariste Constant

“…This study analyzes accessibility to the drinking water source in two villages in Burkina Faso. Data were obtained from household’s surveys. …”
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Health issues of large dams: the case of Soum in the West Central Region of Burkina Faso by Korotimi, Sanou, Isidore, Yanogo Pawendkisgou, Joseph, Yaméogo, Richard, Zongo

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Earth-air Heat Exchangers For Passive Air Conditioning: Case Study Burkina Faso by Woodson, Thomas, Coulibaly, Yézouma, Traoré, Eric Seydou

“…This study examines the ground temperature gradient and the performance of an EAHX performance in Burkina Faso. Ground temperature measurements were made at depths of 0.5 m, 1.0 m and 1.5 m. …”
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The role of the National Innovation Systems Framework in facilitating socio-economic development in Burkina Faso: model and policy practice by Compaore, Eveline Marie Fulbert Windinmi

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A qualitative study of community perception and acceptance of biological larviciding for malaria mosquito control in rural Burkina Faso by Dambach, Peter, Mendes Jorge, Margarida, Traoré, Issouf, Phalkey, Revati, Sawadogo, Hélène, Zabré, Pascal, Kagoné, Moubassira, Sié, Ali, Sauerborn, Rainer, Becker, Norbert, Beiersmann, Claudia

“…In this study,we analyse the perception and acceptability of spraying surface water collections with the biological larvicide Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis in a single health district in Burkina Faso. Methods: A total of 12focus group discussions and 12key informant interviews were performed in 10 rural villages provided with coverage of various larvicide treatments (all breeding sites treated, the most productive breeding sites treated, and untreated control). …”
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NUTRItion and CLIMate (NUTRICLIM): investigating the relationship between climate variables and childhood malnutrition through agriculture, an exploratory study in Burkina Faso by Sorgho, Raissa, Franke, Jonas, Simboro, Seraphin, Phalkey, Revati, Saeurborn, Rainer

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Linking weather data, satellite imagery and field observations to household food production and child undernutrition: an exploratory study in Burkina Faso by Sorgho, R., Franke, J., Simboro, S., Barteit, S., Phalkey, R., Sauerborn, R.

“…In this exploratory study, methods from multiple sectors were applied to 20 randomly selected households in Bourasso in rural Burkina Faso, where more than 80% of the population are subsistence farmers, i.e. live off their fields. …”
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Business Plan for the Council of International Service by Mbacke, Maimouna

Subjects: “…Education; Agents; International students; Sub-Saharan Africa; Senegal; Burkina Faso; Cote d'Ivoire;…”
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From reconstruction to deconstruction: the role of research in South African skills development by Powell, Lesley

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On the potentials of multiple climate variables in assessing the spatio-temporal characteristics of hydrological droughts over the Volta Basin by Ndehedehe, C., Awange, Joseph, Corner, Robert, Kuhn, Michael, Okwuashi, O.

“…Further, the statistically significant negative correlations of pacific decadal oscillations (0.39 and 0.25) with temporal evolutions of drought in Burkina Faso and Ghana suggest the possible influence of low frequency large scale oscillations in the observed wet and dry regimes over the basin. …”
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Strategies To Prevent Home-Grown Terrorism In Ghana by Zulkarnain, Mohammed

“…Therefore, this study explored the nature of HGT in Ghana by assessing the strategies used by state and non-state actors to counter it by adopting the Human Security frameworks to understand the strategies adopted by Ghana to prevent HGT in an unstable West African region, where countries like: Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Nigeria, have all suffered from HGT.…”
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Defense spending - economic growth nexus in selected OIC countries: a long-run causality analysis by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Mohd Tahir, Hirnissa, Abdul Hamid, Baharom

“…The results of our study indicated that one way long run Granger causality was found running from economic growth to defense spending for Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Togo and Turkey. …”
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Estimating effect of augmentative biological control on grain yields from individual pearl millet heads by Baoua, I., Amadou, L., Oumarou, N., Payne, W., Roberts, J., Stefanova, Katia, Nansen, C.

“…Since 2006, augmentative mass releases of the larval ectoparasitoid, Habrobracon hebetor, have been conducted in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as part of minimizing pearl millet grain losses imposed by millet head miners. …”
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Bridging economy and biotechnology divide: path to be taken by Rahman, Mohammad Tariqur

“…The bridging of the economic growth and “biotechnology divide” in developing countries is evident with the effort of their farmers who grow more biotech crops compared to their counterparts in industrialized countries (52% vs. 48% of global production in 2012), as well as the commercialization of biotech crops in countries such as Sudan, South Africa, Burkina Faso, and Egypt. However, bridging between developed and developing countries for biotech product development may face setbacks as countries, such as Poland, Germany, and Sweden, who have been growing transgenic crops have stopped to do so (ISAAA Brief 44, 2012). …”
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Education inequality and poverty: Evidence from sub-Saharan African countries / Folorunso Obayemi Temitope Obasuyi by Folorunso Obayemi , Temitope Obasuyi

“…Firstly, the thesis findings on the levels of education inequality showed that 16 of the sampled countries representing 64% had education inequality (higher than 50%). Burkina Faso was at the extreme of over 90% of the inequality while Zimbabwe had 24% at the lower boundary of the distribution. …”
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