Cape Verde (West Africa) Successful Water Reuse Pilot Project: A Sustainable Way for Increasing Food Production in a Climate Change Scenario

Markets, climate change, and food security in West Africa.

Food price fluctuations, which will be exacerbated by climate change, make West African food security even more tenuous.

Important Bird Areas in Africa and associated islands – Cape Verde ■ CAPE VERDE

Cape Verde Praia , Santiago , Cape Verde

We prove a Noether’s theorem for fractional variational problems with Riesz-Caputo derivatives. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations are obtained. Illustrative examples in the fractional context of the calculus of variations and optimal control are given.

Flank collapse and large-scale landsliding in the Cape Verde Islands, off West Africa

[1] Large-scale landslides occur on the flanks of many volcanic oceanic islands worldwide. None have taken place in historical time, but their geohazard potential, especially their ability to generate tsunamis, is large. The Cape Verde Islands are a group of 10 large and several smaller volcanic islands off the coast of West Africa between 15 and 17 N. A single flank landslide has previously be...

Condom use at last sexual relationship among adolescents of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, - West Africa

OBJECTIVE To estimate factors associated with condom use at last sexual intercourse among adolescents. METHODS Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 368 sexually active adolescents aged 13-17 years from eight public high schools on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, 2007. The level of significance was 5.0% obtained from logistic regression, considering the association between condom u...