Through collaboration and resource sharing, smallholder rice farmers can enhance their productivity and achieve a fully mechanised farming system.
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Sickle cell disease causes lower oxygen levels and abnormal blood flow in the brain, which can lead to a stroke. New research into noninvasive screening methods could help reduce the risk.
Smallholder farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Deliberate steps are required to support them and boost agricultural output,
Agoa should be extended by another 20 years and membership expanded to cover north Africa
Demand for human organs has surpassed supply. This is leading to serious problems including a flourishing black market for organ trafficking.
The number of elderly people in need of support in Africa is projected to grow at annual rates above 3% up to 2050.
Although there is strength in diversity, members of ethnic groups in power distributing resources to members of their ethnic group at the expense of national growth entrench poverty in Africa.
Social scientists in Nigeria communicate their research results more among themselves than they do to policymakers and the general public.
Groundwater has the potential to support broad economic, humanitarian and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, as it has in other regions globally.
The answers to Nigeria’s poor social science research output seem to lie in quantity and quality of personnel, time available for research, funding, support institutions and policy.
A consequence of a warming world is prolonged dry spells and periods of drought that can lead to infectious diseases like cholera.
Civil society can play a role by holding political authorities accountable.
Without financial support that helps communities adapt to climate impacts, climate change is projected to push tens of millions more Africans into extreme poverty by 2030.
Smallholder rice farmers in Ghana should be supported by the government to access finance needed to adopt modern technologies for greater productivity.
Almost all the people in the study were experiencing feelings like anxiety, worry, anger, boredom or frustration.
Even though parts of the global tourism sector have started recovering from COVID-19 restrictions, tourists may still feel that home is safer than abroad. This can be beneficial for domestic tourism.
Nigeria needs a multisectoral approach to break its annual cholera epidemic.
Barriers to independent national decision making in farming need to be challenged if agricultural sustainability is to be developed.
By providing insights from different disciplines, a new book uncovers new themes in the history of Yoruba people of West Africa
Attempts to formalise charcoal production have been largely unsuccessful.
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Assistant Director, Research, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM)
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Researcher, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM)
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Senior Research Fellow in Climate Change Risks, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Business School, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Hospitality & Tourism, University of Surrey
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Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, University of Ibadan
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Doctoral Candidate, Geography and Development Studies, University of Minnesota
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Senior Lecturer, Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Cape Coast
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Principal Scientist, Innovation Systems for the Drylands., CGIAR System Organization
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Professor, University of South Africa
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Senior lecturer, University of Ghana
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PhD Candidate/Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Guelph
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Doctoral Researcher, University of Hohenheim
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University
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Economist and Lecturer in Management, Keele University
