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Synergy between insecticide and repellent to combat malaria-carrying mosquitoes

Health department - Health - Angola, Archipelago of the Canaries, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central Africa, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Democratic republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad, Togo

January 2007

With 40% of the world’s population, mainly in the poorest countries, exposed to malaria risk and over 500 million people falling ill with the disease each year, it is still the most worrying tropical parasite disease. Most deaths from malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa and most of those who die ...

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To halt land degradation in sub-Saharan Africa

Societies department - Water and soil ressources - Benin, Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Democratic republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad, Togo

January 2003

The IRD is closely involved in the Desert Margins Programme, whose aim is to halt land degradation in sub-Saharan Africa and open the way to sustainable farming there. The programme is supported by the United National Environment Programme and the World Environment Fund. More than 120 million ...

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