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Food and nutrition insecurity has been a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With land frontier closing, farmers in SSA must intensify and diversify food production to alleviate food and nutrition insecurity. In the face of climat…
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), is a multi-functional crop with important role in the diet as affordable protein source and in sustaining soil fertility through nitrogen fixation. However, its productivity in Ethiopia of 1.9 t ha-1 is lower…
The quality of briquettes varies greatly among small scale producers in Uganda due to the different methods of production, absence of standardization, lack of technical knowledge and quality control procedures. The study aimed at investiga…
Chickpea is the world‟s second most widely grown leguminous food crop after soybean. In Kenya however, chickpea is a new crop and not known by many. This could be due to insufficient agricultural information on the crop. Hence, it affects …
Experiments were conducted at the University of Zimbabwe, Crop Science Department from 2012- 2014 with the overall aim of identifying soft rot pathogens in the peri-urban Harare area and to screen some of the locally grown potato cultivars…
This research was based on the premise that successful management of poultry farms can only be attained with effective and timely decision making by farmers. In this dissertation, the Poultry Decision Enhancement Studio (PDES) was designed…
The benefits of ICTs to agriculture have been well documented. Agriculture value chains could benefit from the use of ICTs to increase efficiency and reduce costs, thus reducing risk. By its nature, the dairy value chain is an information …
Spatial variability in wetland soils provide insight into underlying ecosystem processes and may itself give an indication of wetland condition. The study was conducted to characterise and delineate soil variability of wetlands of Khalong-…
Wetland degradation may pose effects on wetland functioning. Wetland hydrology and water quality are important in understanding wetland systems in evaluating wetland functions and processes hence are used to assess the wetland condition. T…
Ecological data are often discrete and do not follow the assumptions of the General linear model and its variants (linear regressions, ANOVA, etc.). Discrete response variables, such as count data, often contain many zero observations and …
Comparisons of unit’s efficiencies operate under different technologies remains an important issue in economic studies. This paper tries to shed light on the sensitivity of empirical results to the selection of the estimation method. The p…
Common components and specific weights analysis (CCSWA) is a relatively recent multiblock statistical method that constitutes an extension of principal components analysis (PCA) in the case where different sets of quantitative variables ha…
Farmers in the northern dryland areas of Ethiopia practice a cereal based rainfed crop-livestock mixed farming and are predominantly rainfed. However, low soil fertility and limited water availability are the major hampering factors to cro…
The coconut whitefly, Aleurotrachelus atratus Hempel (Homoptera; Aleyrodidea) is a highly invasive pest of coconut and ornamental palms (Arecaceae). In Mozambique, it was first detected in 2011 and 100% of infested plants have been reporte…
The decline of soil fertility is severe in western Ethiopia due to inappropriate cropping practices (monocropping, unbalanced nutrient application, continuous cultivation, removal of crop residues from the fields and suboptimal of fertiliz…
T1he first study was initiated with the objectives of analyzing the production stage of the goat milk value chain and prevalence of caprine mastitis and its impact on the value chain. The study was conducted in the Gaborone agricultural re…
This study sought to explore students’ perceptions of the first-year experience in higher education with a special focus on Women’s University in Africa (WUA). The study was centered on three (3) objectives which were to: explore the barri…
Actualmente verifica-se maior preocupação sobre a degradação das florestas de Moçambique, assim como da vegetação de mopane do Distrito de Mabalane em resultado de diversas actividades como a grande pressão do corte de lenha, produção do c…
Moçambique é um dos países da África Austral em que se regista anualmente a incidência de queimadas descontroladas e o distrito de Mabalane, sendo parte do País, não está isento das queimadas. O objectivo do estudo foi de avaliar a incidên…
Insects play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems. Studies on the effect of insect diversity in Mopane ecosystem can provide a rich base of information assisting in the conservation of biodiversity and are important in indicating th…
Mobile money transfer services are popular services in Tanzania used to facilitate financial transactions for business activities and family matters. Despite of the fact that the services have many advantages to users; their contributions …
This study was undertaken in Sinana district to analyze current and future rainfall variability and its effect on wheat and barley production in Sinana district. Data on rainfall and crop yield were obtained from National Meteorological Ag…
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench (2n=20)) and fungal pathogens have continuously co-evolved in a battle for growth and survival. In this rivalry, sorghum evolved a stunning array of structural and gene-based defences designed to combat d…
Uganda’s capture fisheries are dwindling in supplies. With a population growth rate of 3.2%, an expected annual consumption of 580,234 tonnes with supplies limited to only 330,000 tonnes, creates a consumption gap of above 240,000 tonnes p…
