Aims: To examine the existing solid waste management policy and regulatory frameworks, identify critical policy gaps, analyze the institutional and governance structures, and evaluate the key governance challenges that collectively influence the effectiveness and sustainability o...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2025/v29i12997
Ghana is increasingly affected by deforestation, land degradation, agricultural expansion, mining, and urbanisation, leading to significant carbon losses and growing vulnerability to climate change. Carbon sequestration has emerged as an important nature-based solution for climat...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125202
India is projected to become the world's most populous nation by 2050, amid challenges of rapid urbanization and the conversion of agricultural land. This has increased demand for safe, nutritious food in cities. Rooftop gardening has emerged as a strategy to enhance food securit...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125203
Semi-arid areas, especially those in the conflict-prone areas like northeastern Nigeria, are remarkably susceptible to climatic variability as well as the anthropogenic disturbance, and the tracking of vegetation change is important to ecological resilience and sustainable resour...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125204
Blood parasites constitute a large group of pathogens that can affect the productivity and health of many animal species, including poultry. The objective of this study was to determine the seasonal prevalence of haemoparasites in chickens and guinea fowl reared in traditional fa...
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Research Article10.9734/sajp/2025/v8i4251
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is an important staple crop for food-insecure populations across semi-arid and sub-humid tropics. The objective of this study was to calibrate and validate the CERES-Sorghum model (DSSAT v4.8.2) for improved summer sorghum varieties under different so...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125205
Climate variability and recurrent droughts have increasingly affected the rural livelihoods in the semi-arid regions of Rajasthan, where livestock remains a central pillar of household resilience. This study examines how farmers’ perceptions of climate change and long-term drough...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125206
Oil spills remain one of the most disruptive forms of marine pollution, posing severe risks to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and coastal economies. The reviewed literature highlights that oil spills arise from tanker accidents, drilling rig blowouts, operational discharges, a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125207
The present study evaluated the water quality of selected protected and unprotected wetlands of the Bhopal region using the Water Quality Index (WQI). Water samples were analysed for temperature, pH, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, total hardnes...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125208
High temperature stress disrupts cellular metabolism in plants by increasing the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) resulting in oxidative injury and impaired physiological function. This study investigated the mitigative role of foliar-applied L-ascorbic acid (Vit-C)...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125215
Komandan MANO, Kiswendsida Massara Bienvenue TIEMTORE, Patricia SOUBEIGA, Yamba SINARE, Victor BANCE, Nakoula Emile ZOUGOURI, Magloire BOUNGOU & Awa GNEME·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2025
Clarias anguillaris, one of the widely distributed freshwater fish in West African fisheries represents a potential host for many parasites. The present study assessed diversity, prevalence and intensity of gastrointestinal metazoan parasites of clarias anguillaris in three urban...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2025/v40i122360
The present study analysed the magnitude of yield gap and identified the sources of yield gap in potato production in Undivided Sonitpur and Lakhimpur districts of Assam. Both primary and secondary data were used. A multi-stage purposive cum random sampling technique was employed...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2025/v43i122876
Xarah Pauleen M Pauleen, Charm Joshean A A Tapic, Chloe Vincent Macabale, Denzyl Dawn M M Altomera, John Earl T Lingolingo, T Lingolingo, Cybreal S Alsola & John Lloyd P Alarcon·Asian Journal of Research in Biochemistry·2025
The Philippines is a global biodiversity hotspot and has numerous ethnic communities that utilize their rich local flora as a foundational element of their traditional healing systems and irreplaceable ethnomedical knowledge. This study systematically documented and scientificall...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrb/2025/v15i6462
This study was aimed at identifying and characterizing Polyethylene degrading bacterial isolates from a refuse dump in Amadi-Ama Port Harcourt Rivers State Nigeria. The microorganisms were isolated from plastic polyethylene wastes deposited in the soil of a refuse dump in Amadi-A...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrb/2025/v15i6463
The safe ignition of cryotechnic space launchers is threatened by flow instabilities that occur before ignition, a phase that remains poorly understood. While most research focuses on post-ignition instabilities, we investigated the critical few hundred milliseconds preceding ign...
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Research Article10.9734/psij/2025/v29i6920