In 2022, the prevalence of obesity was less than 5% among women in six countries (3%; Viet Nam, Timor-Leste, Japan, Burundi, Madagascar, and Ethiopia) and among men in 17 countries (9%) in south and southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It surpassed 60% among women in eight countries...
and is linked to levels of development, health status and poverty. The subnational variability in the shape of the population pyramid as well as the respective dependency ratio are reflective of the different levels of development of a country and are drivers for a country’s economic ...
of population and forest-cover trends. We show that the current landslide risk in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is twice as high as in neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi. Congolese households, on average, populate more hazardous terrain, probably as a result of conflicts and...
While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are often identified by their global nature, a push for ‘localisation’ of the goals is ongoing, defined as “the process of defining, implementing and monitoring strategies at the local level for achieving global, national and subnational sustainable ...
This collection was comprised of genotypes from different research centers, including AfricaRice (43), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)-Burundi (25), IRRI-Kenya (9), INERA (12), and local landraces (5). Table 1. Rice genotypes used in the study. 2.2. Sample Preparation and ...