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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Burkina Faso"”.
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Environnement, Ressources et Conflits au Burkina Faso
… la propagation des dynamiques conflictuelles au Burkina Faso. En adoptant une approche interdisciplinaire, cette recherche explique que l’altération des conditions socio-environnementales modifie non seulement les conditions de vie, mais également les représentations et structures sociales, …
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An Analysis of Maternal Health in Burkina Faso
… fifth of which is to “improve maternal health”. Burkina Faso has made good strides towards improving maternal health and has achieved a 57% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2010. While the lifetime risk of maternal death remains elevated at 1 in 55, in recent years the …
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La désertification dans un contexte de changements climatiques au Burkina Faso
… faire l'état des lieux de la désertification au Burkina Faso, notamment ses impacts et de contextualiser les changements climatiques par rapport a la désertification. II s'agissait aussi d'examiner les impacts réels ou potentiels des changements climatiques sur le territoire ; de décrire et …
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Hemmed in: The geography of organic fairtrade cotton in Burkina Faso
Conventional cotton growing in Burkina Faso is unsustainable. It is characterized by low incomes for most smallholder growers, dependence on expensive agro-chemical inputs, and male bias across the sector. By contrast, the Helvetas organic cotton program in many cases improves rural livelihoods …
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La contribution des associations de femmes au développement durable au Burkina Faso
… dans leurs chefs-lieux respectifs Pô et Toma au Burkina Faso."
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Growing Cotton: Household Negotiations in Export-Oriented Agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… potential for economic autonomy. In Southwest Burkina Faso, observations in cotton-producing households appear to challenge such assumptions. Cotton is the driver of food crop production; and members of cotton farming households operate within a framework of negotiations and bargaining to …
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Growing cotton: Household negotiations in export-oriented agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… potential for economic autonomy. In Southwest Burkina Faso, observations in cotton-producing households appear to challenge such assumptions. Cotton is the driver of food crop production; and members of cotton farming households operate within a framework of negotiations and bargaining to …
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The art of Maquis: makeup and making up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
… the art of maquis among women in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The thesis frames the art of maquis as a navigational technique through which women embody their aspirational self. Here, I conceptualize the art of maquis through the notions of makeup and making up. The women I worked with used …
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Transfers Within the Family: Evidence for the United States, Mexico and Burkina Faso
… and inter-vivos transfers for households in Burkina Faso. It presents a new measure of bargaining power based on the residual from a regression of bride price on detailed characteristics of the wife's family. This residual captures factors unobserved by the econometrician that provide the …
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Do Culturally Engaging Reading Materials Matter? An Analysis of Rural Libraries in Burkina Faso
… onto children’s reading preferences in the rural Burkina Faso and to learn about the popularity of local photo books that were added in 2009. Quantitative methods examined library book checkout records in three categories of African, French, and local photo books. Additionally the library …
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Low-Fee Private Schools in West Africa: Case Studies from Burkina Faso and Ghana
… in the literature by examining 6 schools, 3 in Burkina Faso and 3 in Ghana, West Africa. This investigation explored: (a) if and how learning transfer took place after the leadership training; (b) what promoted and hindered learning transfer in both countries; and (c) if the use of a text …
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Land Degradation in Southwestern Burkina Faso: The Environmental Effects of Demographic and Agricultural Change
… challenge the narrative put forward by many in Burkina that investment in land quality is related to security of tenure. Migrants, who generally have the least secure access to land, are creating tenure security through investment in land quality.
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Acquisition of the English Article System by Francophone Students: The Case of Burkina Faso
The study discusses the implications of these results on the concept of referentiality, and questions the generalizability of Huebner's (1983) model to all languages. The study provides not only data, but also evidence of levels of difficulty, constraints and sources of transfer in L3 acquisition. …
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In pursuit of tradition: Local cults and religious conversion among the Sambla of Burkina Faso
… the Sambla, a Mande speaking group of western Burkina Faso, in relation to religious shifts of affiliation. Past religious regional movements in the Volta region and contemporary religious changes among the Sambla show that local identities are produced by people who do not perceive a …
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Factors Affecting Variability in the Distribution of Elephants at Nazinga Game Ranch (Burkina Faso, West Africa)
… population parameters in Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso. Remote sensing and GIS technology were used, as well, to relate the species distribution to environmental and anthropogenic variables, which were Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, elevation, stream density, poaching density, …
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Mosquitoes infecting children & children infecting mosquitoes in Burkina Faso. Production and infectivity of malaria transmission stages
Contains fulltext : 244744.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Trypanosomosis risk factors and impact assessment of a tsetse and trypanosomosis eradication campaign in Burkina Faso
… to animal production in Africa, especially in Burkina Faso where the economy relies mainly on the rural sector. To eliminate this scourge in Africa, the Heads of States and Governments have decided in July 2000, during the summit of the African Union in Lomé, Togo, to create the Pan African …
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