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In this largely Muslim population, only about a third of women have any schooling, most marry young (nearly 80 percent by the age of 19) and by the age of 18, more than half have had their first child. Nearly 1 in every 5 women joins in a polygamous marriage. As both women and men state they...
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Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub …
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improve the health status of the population of Middle and Lower Guinea (the prefectures of Boke, Kindia, Mamou and Labe …
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sector study that examines such programs in Cape Verde, as a relatively wealthy African country, and in comparison Guinea, as …
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countries, Mauritania and Guinea, that have successfully addressed this issue. It also briefly mentions the current situation in … Burkina Faso and Mali. The key objective of this research effort was to understand and explain the practices that help girl …
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In Guinea, improving the productivity of upland rice is a key challenge for the national agricultural services. Though … rice is the main staple in Guinea, low yields make the country highly dependent on rice imports that it can ill afford … for on-farm trials and then to extension will have taken years. To speed up the process, Guinea's national extension …
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The Livestock Sector Rehabilitation Project, operational from 1986 through 1995, was seen as essential in facilitating the new government's implementation of its economic strategy when it came to office in 1984. Previous government policy had required that 10 percent of all herds be sold at a...
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The Guinea National Agricultural Services Project's overall development objective is to improve nationwide agricultural …
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The key objective of the Guinea Public Expenditure Review (PER) was the improvement of Guinea's public resource … report for Guinea included costing out of priority sectors' policies against the medium-term macroeconomic framework …
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tackling poverty. The Government of Guinea's National Education for All Program, adopted in 1990, aimed to expand the gross …
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