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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mali West Africa"”.
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Female Elites, Women's Formal Associations, and Political Practices in Urban Mali (West Africa)
… multiple dimensions of the patronage system in Mali by looking at leaders' professional identities, motivations, cultural values, and political practices. I include glimpses detailing how leaders are viewed from the bottom up, and spend some time to describe women's communal activities, …
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Aerosol Optical Depth And Its Relationship To Radar Derived Precipitation In Mali, West Africa
… Depth (AOD) and radar-derived precipitation in Mali, a country located in West Africa. Precipitation parameters derived from 2006, 2007 and 2008 C-band radar measurements are compared against Noon to 2 p.m. averaged AOD measurements. The AOD and Angstrom Exponent (AE) are from an Aerosol Robotic …
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Intercultural development in global service-learning
… University EDGE Program, which took place in Mali, West Africa.</p> <p>The present research builds on and contributes to three primary areas of research: intercultural development, service-learning, and study abroad. As the literature in these areas revealed the lack of a consistent way to …
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Mining for the Future: Dynamics of Artisanal Gold Mining Practice and Governance in the Balan-Bakama (Mande, Mali)
… a zone of the Mande area of southern Mali (West-Africa). Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in 2010-11 I show how villagers and specifically their male and female mining authorities govern mining sites in the territory of their village. Unlike many artisanal mines that are …
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Environmental Study of Pesticide Residues in Soil and Water from Cotton Growing Areas in Mali
… collected at four cotton producing areas of Mali. The results from a survey of 24 farmers identified various concerns regarding personal and environmental safety. Despite their training, sometimes growers did not use pesticides in an appropriate manner. Highly toxic pesticides are used by …
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Water Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Mali
… increased using the advice given in the thesis, Mali would then serve as an example for what could be done right in other arid areas.</p>