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The project scientific team held a series of meetings, validating the project work plan and setting up the appropriate criteria (academic performance, research proposals, and interviews) for the selection of the MSc candidates. Eighty nine…
Low agricultural productivity in Eastern and Southern Africa has led to recurrent chronic food insecurity, poor nutrition, and widespread poverty that continue to affect a significant proportion of the population. This low productivity is …
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the major IT innovations in the world today. Indeed ERP systems over the years have become a crucial element in every facet of business, spanning from multi-million dollar businesses to “table-t…
The present study analyzes the system for producing and marketing improved groundnut seed in Kolokani. Data from the study were collected from 30 groundnut seed producers in the above-mentioned locality in May 2019 using semi-structured in…
According to the global sustainability goals, achieving food security and biodiversity conservation are among the most critical challenges of the 21st century. They are, there tore, central aspects of the US sustainable development goals, …
Zimbabwe is an agro-ecological area and its economy is backed by agriculture. Managing agricultural activities is important as this will impact positively on the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). There are risks associated with agric…
Maize is a strategic crop for most West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries. As a staple food for humans, it is also used for poultry feed, which has a very high demand. Maize is the second most important cereal crop, aft…
Permanent improvements on agricultural land by smallholder farmers have great potential to bolster agricultural productivity, enhance household food security, and improve household nutrition, while promoting environmental sustainability. W…
As disruptive technologies descend upon the global agriculture industry, the entire ecosystem is shifting strategies in order to remain relevant and competitive. Agri-Tech on its part utilizes technology to improve yields, efficiency and p…
The need for increasing women representation in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has become a global concern. Universities in Africa have been compelled to develop, sustain and nurture both men and women who are capable of generating k…
The PhD journey is a systematic process of both academic and personal development for the doctorate student. The PhD journey is systematic process involving a decision on the topic, choosing an appropriate supervisor, managing the challeng…
This paper analyses perception of 120 farmers engaged in cocoa farming in two districts of Ghana on extension service delivery. Overall, they were satisfied with qual ity of extension delivery, especially the e-extension. However, print me…
This paper outlines financial innovations that can generate controlled, quality and timely data on the credit management practices of smallholder farmers in Uganda, ideal for policy makers to strengthen the design and implementation of con…
Profitability measures the firm’s ability to generate revenue in excess ofexpense an accomplishment that is necessary if the firm is to be considered a going concern. Therefore, the indicators of the profitability are the profits made by t…
The adverse effects of climate change and variability have affected crop production through the increasing erratic rainfall, drought, floods, pests, and diseases that have significantly reduced crop yields in many places including Uganda. …
Water scarcity and drought accumulating from erratic rainfall patterns are responsible for significant losses in agricultural productivity across Africa and beyond. This has overtime contributed to significant decline in economic growth an…
Climate change and climate variability is a global phenomenon that has caused serious concern to many sectors of the economy and people’s livelihoods in Africa. In this regard, community based dwellers most especially farmers and forest re…
The rapid rate of land use and land cover change and associated dramatic dynamics over the past decades, has caused the fear that it will be one of the major environmental challenges facing the Earth over the next century. Land cover chang…
Future food demand worldwide can be achieved by increasing production. The increase in agricultural production can in turn be achieved by agricultural intensification and /or extensification. However, agricultural extensification has been …
Agriculture remains a single largest contributor to deforestation and overall environmental damage in Sub Saharan Africa including Zambia. Subsistence agriculture along the Kafue River Basin in Zambia’s Copperbelt province is more pronounc…
The natural environment has been continuously reshaped, ever since man settled down and left nomad livelihood in favor of agriculture production. And, in pre-agricultural times, about 50% of the forest that once covered earth now is gone. …
Ghana’s increase in farm productivity is at the detriment of the preservation of the forest. Should we preserve the forest or use it to farm. This study look at the profitability of an investor in keeping a forest or farming. The big quest…
Watershed health is key to attainment of sustainable development goals in East and Central Africa. However, their rate of degradation is increasingly alarming in these regions due to land-use/cover changes and poor management. On the other…
Effective restoration of watersheds relies on several factors including quality of information shared and its sharing mechanisms. This study assessed the nature and quality of information and its dissemination mechanisms used in restoratio…
Drought is an important factor affecting agriculture and livestock and the most constraining climate extreme to livelihoods. The study highlights agro-pastoral farmers’ perceptions of drought in Kayunga district in central Uganda. The stud…
