Autochthony and insecure land tenure: the spatiality of ethnicized hybridity in the periphery of post-conflict Bukavu, DRC

Overbeek, F. van; Tamás, Peter A.

doi:10.1080/17531055.2018.1459084

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“…In this territory as in the whole Bushi community, the customary land tenure law includes the Kalinzi, Bwigahire, Bwasa and Obuhashe (Kinghombe, 2003), but this customary logic is losing its authority because of the increasing competition due to high demand in land, which has introduced another form of accessing land called Bugule i.e. purchase (Ansoms et al, 2012;Overbeek & Tamás, 2018). In the marshlands investigated, Kalinzi and Bwasa were reported among many respondents (Figure 3).…”

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“…In the marshlands investigated, Kalinzi and Bwasa were reported among many respondents (Figure 3). Kalinzi is a land use right allocated by customary authorities or a landowner after the payment of rent, which may be a goat, a cow, or its monetary value depending on the arrangement of the two parts (Ansoms et al, 2012;Overbeek & Tamás, 2018). Bwasa is a rental contract which gives the borrower the right to use land for a short duration only for food crops (cassava, beans or vegetables) and the rental price is called Ntumulo, calculated a posteriori in proportion to the profits or harvests collected.…”

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Potential threats to agricultural food production and farmers’ coping strategies in the marshlands of Kabare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Arsene

Fyama

2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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In the South Kivu province of the DR Congo, marshes are considered as favorable lands for various crop productions, and these improve food security and livelihood of thousands of households. We analyzed survey data collected from 148 farmers using a binary logit model and descriptive statistics in order to identify the potential threats to agricultural production, and the coping strategies used by farmers in marshlands. Results showed that 65% of respondents were female, and 76% of all farmers claimed perceiving threats to agricultural production in marshes. The perceived potential threats to agriculture included floods, pest infestation (millipede, fall armyworm), crop theft, and unsecure land-holding status as well as the decrease in soil fertility. Moreover, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has also led to the increase in prices of agricultural inputs (pesticides, seeds), and manure that has become increasingly rare and expensive due to the drastic reduction in livestock in that region weakened by several years of civil war and insecurity. In response, farmers were combining several adaptation strategies and these included drainage, mulching, manure application, and crop diversification used by farmers for, respectively, managing floods, maintaining soil fertility, and reducing crop failure. To cope with land scarcity, both female (75%) and male ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Potential threats to agricultural food production and farmers’ coping strategies in the marshlands of Kabare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Arsene

Fyama

2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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“…The city of Bukavu is lying the extreme southwestern edge of Lake Kivu, and is separated of the west of Cyangungu in Rwanda by the outlet of the Ruzizi River. It consists of three administrative communes including Ibanda, Kadutu and Bagira [20].…”

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Antibiotic Dispensing Practices in Community Pharmacies: A Major Health Concern in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Ntizala

Mulume

Runyeruka

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JPRI

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Aims: The practice of antibiotic dispensing in community pharmacies may contribute to irrational use of antibiotics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibiotic dispensing patterns in community pharmacies of the Eastern DRCongo. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study carried out at Bukavu city. The study included 1504 subjects attending community pharmacies. Thus, a total number of 40 pharmacies were selected. The sociodemographic profiles of patients and dispensers were also recorded. The pharmacological interventions were investigated in terms of antibiotics dispensed according to patient’s complaints, antibiotic dispensing with or without prescription, the substitution of antibiotics in prescriptions. Results: Participants attending pharmacies for antibiotic needs were in the mean age of 29.8±13 years. Most of the pharmacy workers consisted of pharmacy technicians (70%) and no trained dispensers (20%). Pharmacists represented only 10% of all dispensers in community pharmacies. We found that 67.8% of subjects purchased antibiotics without prescription. The antibiotics dispensed without prescription were either on patients’ requests (70.1%) or the suggestion of dispensers (29.9%). Only 18.4% of prescriptions were subject to substitution. The conditions for requiring antibiotic dispensing without prescriptions were respectively gastrointestinal (34%), respiratory (27%), genitourinary (25%), skin (11%) and dental (2%) infections. Conditions that were not well defined represented 1%. In cephalosporins, Cefixime was the most important drug dispensed without prescription (72.5%) whereas in penicillins, this was Amoxicillin (55.5%). Doxycycline was more dispensed in the class of cyclines (69.4%). Erythromycin (53.1%) and Azithromycin (29.4%) were more dispensed in the class of macrolides. Ciprofloxacin was the most dispensed drug in the class of quinolones (74.3%) and Metronidazole (86.8%) in the class of imidazoles. Conclusion: The Antibiotic dispensing practice is very critical in the community pharmacies of Bukavu city due to the lack of qualified dispensers. This may increase the antibiotic self-medication and contribute to antibiotic resistance.

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“…While perceptions of warfare in Africa have mainly been shaped by a strong focus on rural areas, the role of urban areas in the myriad forms of conflict remain little understood; this calls for closer interaction between conflict studies and urban studies, as also noted by Beall and Goodfellow (2014), among others. A recently published collection of papers on the larger Great Lakes region explicitly aims to fill this academic gap (Büscher, 2011, Büscher, 2012, Van Overbeek and Tamás, 2018. 13 With this article on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), home to our case-study city, we aim to contribute to filling this gap by explicitly investigating the relationship between urbanization and civil war.…”

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Intraurban development in a city under protracted armed conflict: Patterns and actors in Goma, DR Congo

Pech

Büscher

Lakes

2018

Political Geography

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Autochthony and insecure land tenure: the spatiality of ethnicized hybridity in the periphery of post-conflict Bukavu, DRC

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Potential threats to agricultural food production and farmers’ coping strategies in the marshlands of Kabare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Potential threats to agricultural food production and farmers’ coping strategies in the marshlands of Kabare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Antibiotic Dispensing Practices in Community Pharmacies: A Major Health Concern in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Intraurban development in a city under protracted armed conflict: Patterns and actors in Goma, DR Congo

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