LE MARAICHAGE EN MILIEU URBAIN ET PERIURBAIN : CAS DE LA VILLE DE N’DJAMENA AU TCHAD

This study conducted as part of the Master Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, is on the Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in the city of N'Djamena through the market gardening sector. It aims to provide elements characterizing this activity.To collect and analyze data, a focus group was conducted with 92 market gardeners about constraints to the development of market gardening followed by individual survey of 61 producers on production techniques.The analysis of the results, with the Excel XLSTAT software, allowed us to characterize the agriculture through the actors, types of spaces, types of crops and the products obtained. It appears from this study that the producers are mostly men (67.21%) with an average age of 35 years.In N'Djamena, market gardening is an activity located in the administrative reserves (34.43%) and private property (65.57%). These holdings, with more or less uniform technical itineraries in all production sites, are highly diversified in terms of price speculation although leafy greens dominate with 47% share of the products obtained. However many problems are an obstacle to development of this sector.The results may enable researchers, NGOs, decision makers and town administrator to have useful information about the importance of this sector

Examining Patterns and Trends of Household Food Consumption of in the City of Ati (Chad)

Households in Ati face high food consumption costs which determine different states of food and nutritional security. This study was carried out with the aim of analyzing household food consumption in order to contribute to better knowledge of the food and nutritional situation and to inform stakeholders working in the field of food security so that they can better guide their intervention strategies. A prospective, cross-sectional descriptive research survey was adopted for the study and was conducted from 15 April to 14 June 2022 in the city of Ati. The study involved 135 households selected in the neighborhoods of the city of Ati. Data were collected using a questionnaire survey form and then processed using Excel 2016. The food consumption score was used to reflect dietary diversity, frequency of consumption as well as household nutritional intake relative to products and food groups consumed individually. Results showed that more than a third of households (38.52%) consumed at least 3 meals per day and more than half of the households surveyed (54.07%) had 2 meals per day. The group of cereals and tubers is the most consumed by the majority of households. The results show that 30.60% of households surveyed had a poor ACS, 63.60% had a borderline ACS and 5.80% had an acceptable ACS. It emerges that 76.6% of households have low AMDS, 17.9% have average diversity and only 5.50% have good dietary diversity

Hygiene Practices of Carney Products in the City of Abeche, Chad

International audienc