Transhumance pastoralism in West Africa – its importance, policies and challenges

Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Know its Advantages, Understand its Challenges, Act for its Sustainability

On the global scale, extensive pastoral production accounts for 10% of total meat production (or a billion head of camels, cattle and small animals on all continents)1 and supports some 200 million pastoral households. Yet, despite the considerable benefits conferred by pastoral production systems, they are often denigrated as being archaic. [R1] On the African continent, despite these subjecti...

Pastoralism in Ethiopia: Its Total Economic Values and Development Challenges

Tropospheric Ozone Pollution in Some Major Cities of West Africa and its Relationship with Atmospheric Circulations

This study utilizes a decade long (2005-2014) monthly data of Total Column Tropospheric Ozone (TCTO) in Dubson units to evaluate the spatial and temporal trend of LAO over some major cities of West Africa, namely Lagos, Accra, Niamey, Abuja, Bamako, Dakar, Agadez, Conakry, Kano, and Ouagadougou which are either capital cites or major commercial hubs, where the population ranges from 0.09 millio...

Tropospheric Ozone Pollution in Some Major Cities of West Africa and its Relationship with Atmospheric Circulations

This study utilizes a decade long (2005-2014) monthly data of Total Column Tropospheric Ozone (TCTO) in Dubson units to evaluate the spatial and temporal trend of LAO over some major cities of West Africa, namely Lagos, Accra, Niamey, Abuja, Bamako, Dakar, Agadez, Conakry, Kano, and Ouagadougou which are either capital cites or major commercial hubs, where the population ranges from 0.09 millio...

Food Security in Nigeria and South Africa: Policies and Challenges

This paper highlights food security situation and reflects on the challenges of food security in two sub-Saharan African countries: Nigeria and South Africa. Over the years, Nigeria and South Africa have made several attempts to address the issue of increased affordable food production in both quantity and quality. Some of these attempts have cumulated into several programmes and projects aimed...