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Access to land: a major public policy challenge
November 2010
There has been renewed interest in the land tenure issue in recent years owing to persistent poverty and increasing inequality in the rural societies of the South, and the growing number of conflicts arising from competition for access to land in areas where there is much movement between town ...
Conflict and prospects for peace in Côte d'Ivoire
January 2007
Since the attempted coup of September 2002, Côte d’Ivoire has been struggling to overcome a military and political crisis that has split the country into areas controlled by government forces in the south and rebel forces in the north. Identity-based tensions between communities have worsened ...
Diagnosing nutritional vulnerability in Burkina Faso
January 2005
In the Sahel countries, it is a constant challenge to identify the most vulnerable populations so as to prevent food crises and malnutrition. Research by the IRD in Burkina Faso may help to address the challenge. Nutritionists and epidemiologists have shown that analysing dietary diversity in ...
Food insecurity in Africa
January 2005
Marked recent trends in Africa are tensions over farm prices, competition from energy crops and large-scale buy-ups of farmland in the poorest countries. Coupled with sustained population growth, they have made food insecurity in Africa a topical issue again, while the global food outlook also ...
Forecasting water resources in the Sahel for 2050 ?
The Sahel is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and recent changes in its surface water levels have not been the simple, directly result of rainfall trends. Human activity and climate change have a signifi cant impact on the dynamics of surface runoff from the land into streams and ...
Genetic susceptibility to sleeping sickness
January 2001
African human trypanosomiasis, a parasite disease transmitted by a tsetse fly’s bite, is a widespread problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the alarming upsurge recorded over the past 20 years seems to have been halted, the illness still threatens millions of people and some countries could ...
Geodynamics of mineral resources in West Africa
January 2006
Mineral resources account for more than 50% of exports from the 19 West African countries involved in the Agremoa programme. They play a crucial role in the region’s development. The IRD and its partners are working to improve understanding of the geological structure and geodynamics of the West ...
Identifying reservoirs and genetic lineages of the Ebola and Marburg viruses
January 1999
The devastating haemorrhagic fevers caused by viruses of the Filoviridae family in Africa have been known for some thirty years. These viruses, harboured by fruit bats and transmitted to humans, have caused deadly epidemics resulting in hundreds of deaths. To develop vaccines and protect the ...
Improving rice growing in Africa
January 1996
Rice, the first cereal humans ever cultivated, is a vital resource for many Southern countries. In Africa, rice yellow mottle virus is a major problem, causing considerable damage and heavy losses at harvest. Prophylactic measures have been employed to limit the spread of the disease, but the ...
Intermittent preventive treatment against malaria: fresh hope for children
January 2005
Malaria kills one to three million people a year worldwide, most of them in tropical Africa. It is the foremost cause of infant death in the Sahelian zone, especially among under-fives, and increasing drug resistance is making this situation worse. New anti-malaria treatments and fresh ...
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