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  WOMEN IN AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION IN WEST AFRICA (B. Trottier)
In practically every region women catch fin fish, with the exceptions of the Korhogo region of northern Côte d'Ivoire and in an unidentified part of Cameroon where women do not do any fishing at all.
However, Hochet (1979) reports that among the Balante rice farmers of Tombali region a fishing tradition exists and largely in the hands of women.
In the Lower Volta Region of Ghana, for example, in the early 50s women had the prerogative on clam diving and men the prerogative on fishing in creeks and lagoons (Lawson, 1972); in Benin it is mostly the women who catch shellfish in the coastal lagoons.
www.fao.org /docrep/S4863E/s4863e05.htm   (4398 words)

  
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Staff from regional and sectoral hospitals have difficulty going to the health centers for routine supervision of staff because they lack the means to get there.
Regional imbalances exacerbate the ratios: In 1987/88 there was one physician per 7,473 inhabitants nationally--a doctor/population ratio that exceed WHO recommendations.
Three regions were unable to fill a combined total of 182 teaching positions for lack of applicants.
www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1994/06/03/000009265_3961006182109/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt   (16303 words)

  
 search.com - Guinea-Bissau - Search.com Reference
Guinea-Bissau is divided into 8 regions (regiões) and 1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo), and are subdivided into 37 sectors.
Most people are farmers, with traditional religious beliefs (animism); 45% are Muslim, principally Fula and Mandinka speakers concentrated in the north and northeast.
Other important groups are the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, in the central and northern coastal areas.
movies.savvysearch.com /reference/Guinea-Bissau   (1106 words)

  
 Rural Women, Pop. & Devel. in Lusophone Africa: Annotated Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The accent is on the patterns of kinship and family formation and on cultural values and practices related to different phases and events in the life-cycles of men, women, boys and girls, including nutritional habits, principles of justice, educational aspirations, etc. Polygamy is very common.
Angola: A Socio-Anthropological Perspective This is a geographical, socio-anthropological and political analysis of the present regional distribution of the population in Angola, by ethnic groups.
The project in the area of Tombali aims at diminishing the rural exodus by strengthening the local associations of producers, especially the young and women farmers.
www.un.org /popin/fao/lusophone.html   (12684 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau Regions
Projected population by region up to 2004 is now available on the website of the INEC
região: regions) and one sector autónomo (autonomous sector).
Name of Catió changed to Tombali, while the eastern part of Fulacunda was annexed to it.
www.statoids.com /ugw.html   (426 words)

  
 Chapter 3 - Guinea Bissau
Each region is divided into three to six sectors, with 34 sectors in all.
About 75% of the animals vaccinated were in Bafata and Gabu Regions in the east, and 9% were in Cacheu Region on the northern part of the coast.
This shorthorn type is being absorbed: its influence is only recognized by a greater heterogeneity in the herds of these areas, with a higher proportion of fl and fl spotted animals and horns which are atypical for the N'Dama (shaped in a short crescent, for example).
www.ilri.cgiar.org /InfoServ/Webpub/Fulldocs/X5537e/x5537e04.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Situation Reports: West Africa, OCHA Guinea Bissau: Report on humanitarian situation 17 May 2006
The Government launched an appeal for aid to fight the food insecurity in the regions of Tombali and Quinará, considered the agricultural center of the country.
The risk of rural food insecurity is more acute in the regions of Quinará, Tombali and the Bijagós Islands, which have a combined population of 250,000 in a country with 1.5 million inhabitants.
The regions of Oio, Bafatá and Gabu have the highest vulnerability to food insecurity and highest acute malnutrition rates in the country.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6PVNQW?OpenDocument   (2127 words)

  
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Les differentes formations v6getales rencontr6es dans la region sont les forets denses sub- humides, les forets secondaires et/ou degradees, les savanes arbustives, les savanes herbacees humides, les mangroves, les tannes (herbeux ou nus) et les palmeraies.
Ces sediments remis en suspension dans les regions c6tieres risquent de contenir des metaux lourds ainsi que d'autres polluants qui entreront dans la chaine alimentaire et se retrouveront sur les plages (perte de jouissance).
Les puits fores pour delimiter les nappes de petrole, s'il y a rupture, peuvent provoquer des catastrophes que representent les marees noires detruisant ainsi les regions c6tieres, la faune marine et c6tiere ainsi que les oiseaux marins et c6tiers.
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 Essence of the matter-Casamance Conflict. wik5.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The region is mostly inhabited by the Jola people who have a long tradition of independence movements.
In 1982 the organisation's leaders were arrested, sparking a vicious circle of increased resistance and Senegalese Army clampdowns.
In 1990, the MFDC began reprisals by attacking military buildings in the region, with covert support from the Guinea-Bissauan Army.
casamance.conflict.en.wik5.info   (4208 words)

  
 Latest Famine News
Much of southern Afghanistan is reportedly experiencing an unseasonably dry winter, at the outset of the region's four month rainy season, according to anecdotal evidence collected by WFP in Kandahar and Jalalabad.
WFP will be closely monitoring the situation in this region given last year's rainfed wheat production failure and the 62 percent increase in the cost of wheat flour between the first week of October and the last week of December.
Donor funds for relief assistance are in short supply, and only a handful of relief agencies are working in southern and central Somalia, the most affected regions MSF 15 December 1.6 million people are cut off from relief operations and there have been some deaths from starvation.
www.ucc.ie /famine/ARCHIVE/vol2issue1.htm   (4052 words)

  
 Tombali Region Map: Bedanda — Quebo | Guinea-Bissau Google Satellite Maps
Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
If you would like to recommend this Tombali map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
www.maplandia.com /guinea-bissau/tombali   (786 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau, Landmine Monitor Report 2003
The latter is a cashew growing region, and UXO have a significant impact on the harvesting of cashew nuts.”
The goal of the National Mine Action Plan is to eliminate the impact of landmines and UXO in Bissau by the end of 2004 and in the southern and eastern regions of the country by the beginning of 2005.
Regional hospitals were expected to adopt the same system from July 2002.
www.icbl.org /lm/2003/guinea_bissau.html   (5997 words)

  
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 Horticulture - Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation - References 133   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Behaviour of pumpkin cultivars in two growing regions of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Evaluation of capsicum cultivars in two growing regions of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Biology of mango leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) in Dharwad region of Karnataka.
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  فبراير/شباط 2002
The aim is to determine on-site, through dialogue with the farmers and fishermen, the needs of the communities and the lines of action to be followed.
The last of these visits (5 and 6 October) was made to the region of Tombali.
Responding to the application of another of the NGO present, the group travelled to Dar el Uda to visit a community centre for dynamism, built to stem the exodus of the rural youth and to permit the projections of organized films and other activities.
www.rdfs.net /news/news/feb2002/guinea1_ar.htm   (576 words)

  
 Map of Tombali (Guinea-Bissau) - nona.net
An overview map of the region around Tombali is displayed below.
regional and 3d topo map of Tombali, Guinea-Bissau ::
download a GPX waypoint (PoI) of Tombali for your GPS receiver
nona.net /features/map/placedetail.4459/Tombali   (87 words)

  
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But the aid would also be used to rebuild protective barriers around the region’s rice-fields, washed away by unusually heavy rains last year.
A local said last week that starving peasants in the Quinara and Tombali regions and the Bijagos Islands of the former Portuguese colony are chewing on unripe mangos for sustenance as food stocks run dry.
In average years the verdant southern region of Guinea Bissau grows more than 70 percent of the country’s 100,000-ton rice crop, according to the FAO.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=53328&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=GUINEA-BISSAU   (645 words)

  
 Newsroom - Emergency Report
In other regions the sixth round of relief food allocations has been nearly completed and preparations for the seventh round are underway.
Nevertheless, there is growing concerns that planted area may be affected by seeds shortage in the southern regions where the rice crop failed last year as well as in the chronically food-deficit areas along the northern border with Senegal.
Due to the food shortage in the southern region of Tombali and Quinara, WFP initiated mobilizing a total of 3,285 tons of food commodities to assist the affected population in these regions.
www.wfp.org /newsroom/emergency_reports_new/emergencyReport.asp?Item=695   (13027 words)

  
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Starving peasants in the Quinara and Tombali regions and the Bijagos Islands of the former Portuguese colony are chewing on unripe mangos for sustenance as food stocks and drinking water run dry, a local radio report said this week.
Salination of rice-paddy irrigation channels caused by flooding from mangrove forests, lack of rain, and pests and crop diseases that have blighted around 70 percent of cultivable land in these areas is responsible for the hunger, Bissauan Agriculture Minister Sola Inquilin said in a statement earlier this week.
In average years the verdant southern region of Guinea Bissau grows more than 70 percent of the country’s 100,000-ton rice crop, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=53183&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=GUINEA-BISSAU   (601 words)

  
 jamaica-weather.info Senegal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On December 30 2004 President Abdoulaye Wade announced that he would sign a peace treaty with the separatist group in the Casamance region.
Density in these areas varies from about 77 square metre in the west-central region to 2 km² in the arid eastern section.
; Senegal Main articles: Regions of Senegal ; Departments of Senegal Senegal is divided into 11 regions (régions); and then subdivided into 34 department s (départements); 94 arrondissement s; and various commune s.
www.jamaica-weather.info /en/Senegal   (2081 words)

  
 IRIN-WA Update 532 for 19 August [19990820]
The north-western region of Liberia is an insecure and volatile region close to the borders with Sierra Leone and Guinea, where several dissident groups and factions are based.
The UNHCR Regional Director for West Africa, Abou Moussa, is to travel there on Monday.
The second phase of a WFP food-for-work project in conjunction with the Evangelical Church to repair irrigation dikes is underway in the Tombali region.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/irinw532.html   (1688 words)

  
 IRIN-WA Update 566 [19991007]
Fears that the southern regions of Quinara and Tombali may be hit by famine are unfounded, even though rice stocks there are low, according to a team which visited the area from 15 to 17 September, OCHA reports.
However, a high incidence of malnutrition was discovered in Catio in the Tombali region by the team, which included representatives of FAO, UNDP, WFP, OCHA and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Seven mine accidents were recorded in the capital, Bissau, in April and May 1999 and, in mid-September, a UN team spotted an anti-personnel mine on the road near Fulacunda (Quinara Region) and notified the appropriate authorities, OCHA reported.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/irinw566.html   (1082 words)

  
 Guinea Bissau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Guinea-Bissau is divided into 8 regions, regiões, & 1 autonomous sector, sector autónomo, - & are subdivided into 37 sectors.
Bafata Biombo Bissau, autonomous sector, Bolama Cacheu Gabu Oio Quinara Tombali
Most Guineans - 99% - are fl — mostly Fula & Mandinka-speaker concentrated inside teh north & northeast - teh Balanta & Papel - living inside teh southern coastal regions - & teh Manjaco & Mancanha - occupying teh central & northern coastal areas.
www.getmax.info /Saint_Helena/Guinea-Bissau   (1946 words)

  
 Regions of Guinea-Bissau Details, Meaning Regions of Guinea-Bissau Article and Explanation Guide
Regions of Guinea-Bissau Details, Meaning Regions of Guinea-Bissau Article and Explanation Guide
Regions of Guinea-Bissau Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
This is an Article on Regions of Guinea-Bissau.
www.e-paranoids.com /r/re/regions_of_guinea_bissau.html   (72 words)

  
 RéGION DE GABú   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
La région encadre le Sénégal au nord, à la Guinée à l'est et au sud et aux régions de la Guinée-Bissau de Tombali et de Bafatá à l'est.
Rio Corubal traverse le sud de la région.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.faktis.com /wiki/fr/r%e9/R%E9gion%20de%20Gab%FA.htm   (65 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
Guinea-Bissau is divided into nine provinces (regions): Bafatá;, Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Cacheu, Gabú;, Oio, Quinara, and Tombali.
The country is largely a low-lying deltaic region and has many rivers, some with wide, swampy estuaries.
Its irregularly shaped coastline is 100 mi/161 km long.
www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Guinea-Bissau.html   (493 words)

  
 Situation Reports: West Africa, Guinea-Bissau Humanitarian Situation Report, 16 Dec 99 to 15 Jan 2000
The UN Security Council agreed to the extension of the mandate of the UN Peace-Building Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) until 31 March 2000.
FFW projects include repairing 60 kilometers of road and rehabilitating saltwater incursion dikes in Catió, Tombali region.
The Ministry of Agriculture, with the support of FAO, is conducting an anti-parasite campaign in the regions of Oio and Quinara.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/43e9c0f90c9089ed8525686b006e08ee   (2074 words)

  
 UniMaps.com - Map of Africa, today
City in the Uele Region, northern Congo (Zaire).
Township in the Basse Casamance region, south coastal Senegal.
Tuarag town, capital of the Kidal Region, northeastern Mali.
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 Board of Trustees UDC Robert Nicolas Resolution of 2001, Bill 14-228
One of his responsibilities included the review of the legal and judicial impediments to the development of a grass roots credit infrastructure.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, with the assistance of his 4 Associate Directors, Mr.
His duties also required extensive travel throughout Togo and frequent travel to the neighboring countries in the region.
www.dcwatch.com /archives/council14/14-228.htm   (1857 words)

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