Publications (154)
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Traditional Lowlands Water Management inDano, South-Western Burkina Faso
Sié Pale, Dapola Evariste Constant DA
Lowland water resources management represents a challenge of the future that calls for action from any community. Irrigated crops are grown in some areas of Burkina Faso, others are limited by a lack of irrigation infrastructure. Due to limited crop irrigation, crops and the associated populations dependent on them depend on rain and on climat(...)
Burkina Faso, Dano, South Sudanese Climate, Lowlands, Traditional Management
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Identification of seedborne fungi of onion in Burkina Faso
Tobdem Gaston DABIRE, Schémaeza BONZI, Irénée SOMDA, and Anne LEGREVE
This study was carried out to assess the seed-borne fungi of onion in Burkina Faso. Eighteen onion seed samples
were collected from local farmers and wholesalers of vegetable seeds in the country and were investigated for fungi. The investigation was done using the “blotter method” on dry seeds and on seedlings. Fungal contamination was detec(...)
Onion, Seed Health, infection rate, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium oxysporum, Burkina Faso
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Hygienic Quality and Nutritional Value of Attiéké from Local and Imported Cassava Dough Produced with Different Traditional Starters in Burkina Faso
Guira Flibert, Donatien Kaboré, Sawadogo-Lingani Hagrétou, Savadogo Aly
Attiéké is an essentially flavour starchy food produced from fermented cassava root. The product is widely consumed in Burkina Faso. The objective of the present study was to investigate the biochemical and the microbiological characteristics of attiéké from Burkina Faso. The samples (36) were collected from six (6) producers. Cassava dough wh(...)
Food science, Fermentation, Starch, Chemistry, Flavour, Bacteria, Biology
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Trypanocidal drugs and the problem of drug resistance in West Africa
Séna Hervé Vitouley
For more than half a century, livestock trypanosomosis in West Africa has been the
subject of various research papers published in the scientific literature. Since the
discovery of the first T. congolense resistant strain in 1984, several studies have alerted
on the increasing phenomenon of trypanocidal drug resistance (TDR) in the cotto(...)
trypanosomosis, drug, drug resistance