A5051108473- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Uterine Myomas and Treatments
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Agricultural pest management studies
- African Studies and Ethnography
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Gynecological conditions and treatments
- Endometriosis Research and Treatment
Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée
2017-2024
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
2021-2024
Institut d'Économie Rurale
2003-2024
Mali-Folkecenter
2019-2023
Université de Sherbrooke
2016-2023
Université des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies de Bamako
2023
Julius Nyerere University of Kankan
2021-2022
Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi
2021
Bioversity International
2021
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
2017-2018
Semi-arid regions across Africa and Asia are characterized by rapidly changing biophysical regimes, structural vulnerabilities, increasing livelihood precarity. Gender, class, caste/ethnic identities relationships, the specific social, economic political power, roles responsibilities they entail, shape choices decisions open to individuals households in managing risks face. Unpacking multiple, intersecting inequalities confronting rural populations these climate hotspots is therefore vital...
Calls for a global food system transformation and finding more sustainable ways of producing healthier, safe nutritious all have spurred production approaches such as intensification biofortification with limited consideration the copious amounts orphan crops, traditional varieties wild edible species readily available in many countries, mostly around smallholder farmers’ fields. This paper explores potential role locally available; affordable climate-resilient to support local...
The potential of participatory scenario processes to catalyse individual and collective transformation policy change is emphasised in several theoretical reflections. Participatory are believed enhance participants' systems understanding, learning, networking subsequent changes practices. However, limited empirical evidence available prove these assumptions. This study aimed contribute this knowledge gap. It evaluates whether outcomes had resulted from the planning exercise extent which they...
Many African countries, including Mali, depend on the production of a single or limited range crops for national food security. In this heavy reliance basic commodities staple crops, even just one, exacerbates multiple risks to agricultural production, rural livelihoods, and nutrition. With in mind, smart campaign was initiated strengthen resilience nutritional situation households peasant communities where diet is mainly cereal-based remains very undiversified poor essential micronutrients....
As the effects of climate change are severely straining West African agricultural systems, adoption more incisive interventions in support sustainable development agendas for region is highly critical and cannot be further delayed by governments. Neglected underutilized species (NUS) one important ally pursuing resilience both production food systems because their promising traits terms nutrition, adaptation to local agroecosystems, economic potential populations. Focusing on fonio, a...
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain the literature regarding how designed at national level implemented localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interactions between local arrangements government resulting implications for rural Mali....
Barriers to food security and climate adaptation operate in complex dynamic ways but are often perceived as static impediments be overcome. In this study, we apply systems thinking for the assessment of barriers agricultural decision-making adaptation. Using a mixed-method approach participatory simulation game design causal loop diagrams, explore pathways through which inhibit farmers from achieving Southern Mali. Results show that key region financial, land, climate-related including...
The phenology of Malian sorghum varieties was studied to understand the impact climate constraints on their cycle duration. We hypothesized that with recent droughts, farmers had shifted shorter durations. germplasme drawn from two different collections: one made in 1978 and other 2000. A model adapted for photoperiod-sensitive sorghums used predict cultivar behaviour original environment as a function latitude rainfall regimes. average duration ecotypes changed little 20 years. This point...
Potato peels consist of a tissue called phellem, which is formed by suberized cell layers. The degradation suberin, lipidic and recalcitrant polymer, an ecological process attributed to soil fungal populations; however, previous studies have suggested that Streptomyces scabiei, the causal agent potato common scab, possesses ability degrade suberin. In present study, S. scabiei was grown in medium containing suberin-enriched phellem as sole carbon source its secretome analyzed periodically...
Abstract Fonio ( Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf) and Bambara groundnut Vigna subterranea L. ) Verdc. are native crops grown at a small scale in Mali that have potential to support agricultural productivity under climate change. A community biodiversity management approach was explored this study as means reinforce the cultivation of these by increasing farmers' access intraspecific diversity developing capacities institutions for their management. The research involved six communities...
Abstract Malian farmers’ traditional system for managing seed of sorghum, an indigenous crop vital importance food security and survival, can be conceptualized as a commons. Although this maintains wide range varieties helps ensure access to seed, its ability create widely disseminate new meet evolving opportunities challenges is limited. A network farmer groups, public breeding programs, development organizations collaborating in decentralized creation dissemination sorghum Mali examined...
Development impacts are often framed in terms of the effects exogenous inputs, such as finance or technologies, on measurable ultimate outcomes for a specified group beneficiaries, example increased income. This case study sourcing, processing, and trading shea butter kernels by Malian women's cooperative emphasizes intermediate outcomes, specifically early signs institutional change, measures assessing development access to finance. The succeeded obtaining working capital provided...
Digitization in agriculture is gaining momentum developing countries. Digital technology aims to improve linkages along the value chain, thereby enabling farming communities and systems recover from stresses absorb shocks which farmers are exposed. However, there concern that digital technologies have not benefited agricultural sector a sustainable way. Stakeholders chain need significant amounts of information they do access. In Mali, smartphones earth observation data used support...
Preharvest application of hormetic doses ultraviolet-C (UV-C) generates beneficial effects in plants. In this study, within 1 week, four UV-C treatments 0.4 kJ/m2 were applied to 3-week-old lettuce seedlings. The leaves inoculated with a virulent strain Xanthomonas campestris pv. vitians (Xcv) 48 h after the last application. extent disease was tracked over time and transcriptomic analysis performed on leaf samples. Samples leaves, from both control treated groups, taken at two different...
Bacterial endophytes support the adaptation of host plants to harsh environments. In this study, culturable bacterial were isolated from African rice Oryza glaberrima L., which is well-adapted grow with poor external inputs in tropical region Mali. Among these, six N-fixer strains used inoculate O. RAM133 and Asian sativa L. cv. Baldo, selected for growth temperate climates. The colonization efficiency N-fixing activity evaluated compared two varieties. sativa-inoculated showed a fairly good...
Mali is a Sahelian country located in center of great species diversity among which are listed millet and sorghum. These two the main staple food crops. On-farm production represents source seeds for peasants. Various reasons such as drought or bad motivate farmers to look permanently more productive varieties. The peasants' seed system (PSS) informally organized principal supply peasants important than formal (FSS). research note presents framework diffusion improved varieties FSS compares...
Climate information services are foundational means of building the farmer’s resilience. However, studies scarce about accuracy climate in dryland regions such as West Africa Sahel, like Mali and Niger. Thus, this study examined forecasts their socio-economic benefits these two countries. For rainfall alerts, we collected 2022 data from ‘SMS Sandji’ platform (Nara) national meteorological agency alert database Niger (Zinder). The were determined using a sample 900 individuals 227 Mali....