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Unlocking Finance for Advanced Irrigation Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Djaramaya Scheme in Chad
(2019-09-03)
Nearly 236 million in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) were undernourished in 2017 due to food shortages. Agriculture in most of the SSA countries is rainfed and where irrigation is practiced inadequate surface method is used. In ...
Development of mobile sensing applications solutions towards Internet of Things
(PAUWES, 2019-10)
Humanbeingsin communicationwiththesurroundingenvironmentin numerous ways. They perceive the environmental conditions and act, react,or adjust accordingly. If the environment can be made to reciprocate this behavior ...
Defeating Fluorosis in Rural Kenya Using the Kilimanjaro Concept: A Feasibility Study in Naivasha
(2019-09-03)
The water in Lake Naivasha and the rainfall in the sub-county is enough to provide the whole population in the area with fluoride-free drinking and cooking water. Lake and rainwater can be blended with natural fluoride-c ...
Impacts of Regulations on the diffusion of renewable energy in Africa: The case study of the Republic of Benin
(PAUWES, 2019-10)
Energy transition is one of the key challenges the world in general and Africa especially is
facing in order to reach sustainable development. As a vulnerable continent to the effects of
climate change, it is in the ...
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Grid-Integrated Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems in Northern Nigeria
(MDPI, 2019-10)
Life cycle assessment is a crucial tool in evaluating systems performances for sustainability
and decision-making. This paper provided environmental impact of integrating renewable energy
systems to the utility-grid based ...
Design of Stand-alone Solar-Wind-Hydro Based Hybrid Power System: Case of Rural Village in Malawi
(JENRR, 2019)
Malawi has current electrification rate of less than 10% for a population of 18 million connected to the grid. The electricity generation company in Malawi (EGENCO) is greatly affected by low water levels making it difficult ...
Rainfall-Intensity Duration Frequency Analysis and Peak-flow Estimations for Flood Risk Management Options within Gountiyena basin in Niamey, Niger.
(PAUWES, 2019-10)
Information on peak discharge and related probabilities is essential for engineering structure
designs. Many basins are ungauged and therefore, data for statistical analyses are missing and input
for sophisticated ...
Assessment of Biofuel Potential on Marginal Lands and from Waste Vegetable Oil Resources in a Ghana
(PAUWES, 2019-10)
Climate change and its numerous effects has called for the need to consider green and cleansourced
energy alternatives. Biofuel promises to be a great option. This research aims at Assessing the
Biofuel Potential on ...
Water Quality Indices as Important Tools for Water Quality Assessment in WWTP: The case of the waste water treatment plan of Ain El Hout Tlemcen
(PAUWES, 2019-10)
The scarcity of conventional water resources represents for Algeria, because of its
Mediterranean climate arid to semi-arid, a major concern. The global water potential of
Algeria does not exceed 13.2 billion m3 of water, ...
Community Acceptability of Renewable Energy in Africa: Implications for Climate Change Action in Sekoukou, Niger
(PAUWES, 2019-10)
Niger possesses a vast amount of renewable energy potential but still battles with numerous
challenges in its energy sector with the increasing effects of climate change, also escalating
the socio-economic predicaments ...