Abstract Climate models are useful tools for monthly to decadal prediction of the evolution climate. This study assesses how CMIP6 represent soil moisture-latent heat regimes and coupling processes between land atmosphere. Metrics considered terrestrial atmospheric indices show nature strength over Africa, focusing on March May (MAM) June August (JJA) seasons East, Central, West Africa. Charact...

To increase the understanding of the ethnopharmacology of a single species, elaboration of dispersed primary data is required. Tamarindus indica L. (Fabaceae), or tamarind, is a common tree, especially in West Africa, with a good potential to contribute to affordable local health care based on traditional medicine (TM). For this single species review, more than 60 references with detailed infor...

Koch originally described only the male of Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) elliptica (Koch, 1844), which he named Rhipistoma ellipticum. For the past century, however, this name has been considered a junior synonym of Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) leachi (Audouin, 1826), or a nomen nudum. We redescribe here the male and larva of H. (R.) elliptica and describe the female and nymph for the first time. Ou...

This chapter provides an overview of the global extent of poverty and its distribution among the six main continental blocks of countries: East Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Near East and North Africa, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. For each of these regions, structural features of the whole economy and the agriculture sector ar...

Chewing fresh leaves of the Khat plant (Catha edulis Celestrasae) is a widespread habit (also practiced by women, even during pregnancy) with a deep-rooted tradition in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. With the influx of immigrants from East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula khat chewing has been imported into other countries including Europe the United States. The major pharmacologically ...