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CONTEXT Increasing numbers of young people enter Sub-Saharan Africa's labour markets each year while industrial jobs only grow slowly. As 62% of...

CONTEXT Although rice production has increased significantly in the last decade in West Africa, the region is far from being rice self-sufficient. Inland valleys (IVs) with...

The objective is to strengthen family farming in its capacity to contribute to food and nutritional security and its responses to sustainable development, in particular by identifying and testing the conditions for an agro-ecological transition...

In West Africa, weeds are major production constraints in rain-fed lowland rice systems—often located in the inland valleys. Weed management technologies have been developed...