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Authors
Mondo, Jean M.
Balezi, Alphonse Z.
Ishara, Jackson https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4789-4040
Mwanga, Jean-Claude I. Mwanga
Matendo, Esther R.
Bagaya, Denis-Gilbert N.
Chuma, Géant B.
Agre, Paterne A.
Adebola, Patrick
Asfaw, Asrat
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Article History
Received: 5 March 2025
Accepted: 27 October 2025
First Online: 26 November 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Research was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the UEA Interdisciplinary Centre of Ethical Research (CIRE), Ref: CNES 039/DPSK/322PP/2023. We obtained verbal informed consent from all resource-persons and community members before interviews after ensuring the confidentiality in use of data collected and explaining the study objectives, as approved and directed by the above Institutional Review Board. Additionally, consent was secured from the informants for the publication of the individual data gathered from them. Plant materials were collected under the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing and were only used for research purposes.
: “Not applicable”. There is no third party data. It is our original research data, all concerned individual authors have agreed to the publication of the outcome of this study as stated above under ethical consideration and authors’ contribution.
