The vulnerability of poor countries is explained by their dependency on natural goods and services as well as their limited adaptive capacity to climate change. The farm households are heterogeneous and therefore their ...

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are an important economic resource, both at the local and global level; their depletion has ramifications on fundamental aspects of life, spanning from food security to society’s wellbeing and ...

Cereals occupy an important place in the consumption patterns of Senegalese populations. Among these cereals, rice and maize are expected to play a dominant role in the country's food security due to their importance in ...

In the search for rural transformation, this paper analyses the effect of agriculture on rural nonfarm entrepreneurship (NFE) highlighting the role of land rights and assesses the impact of rural NFE on households’ livelihood ...

—Policy guides decision. This paper examines policy in the Nigerian Electric Power Sector (NEPS) to cut transmission losses (TL) and improve capacity factor (CF) to 5% and 90%, respectively. A System Dynamics (SD) model ...

Nowadays, the daily conversations at summits and conferences are mainly about energy, climate change, and environmental issues. Fossil fuels are the main causes of global warming due to the release of greenhouse ...

In this paper, we applied the Wavelet Transform Coherence (WTC) and phase analysis to analyze the relationship between the daily electricity demand (DED) and weather variables such as temperature, relative humidity, wind ...

Energy demand is increasing while we are facing a depletion of fossils fuels, the main source of energy production in the world. These last years, photovoltaic (PV) system technologies are growing rapidly among alternative ...

A thermal comfort zone is sought by all living beings for their optimum life activity, production or reproduction. In hot environment, direct evaporative coolers are often used as cost-effective thermal comfort ...

Evaporative coolers are technologies highly used as a source of thermal comfort in terms of fresh air provider in areas where weather conditions are harsh and people living standard goes from medium to low earnings. This ...