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Rapid, sensitive and effective diagnostic tools for foot-and-mouth disease virus in Africa

open access: yesOnderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2014
Speed is paramount in the diagnosis of highly infectious diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), as well as for emerging diseases; however, simplicity is required if a test is to be deployed in the field.
Christopher J. Kasanga   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2023
Sustainability-focused research networks and communities of practice have emerged as a key response and strategy to build capacity and knowledge to support transformation towards more sustainable, just and equitable futures.
Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs   +31 more
doaj   +1 more source

Planning Sustainable Energy Systems in the Southern African Development Community: A Review of Power Systems Planning Approaches

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Southern Africa has a huge potential for renewable energy sources such as hydro, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal. However, electricity access remains a key policy issue for most member states, with a global average access to electricity of only 54 ...
Constantino Dário Justo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A comprehensive programme addressing HIV/AIDS and gender based violence

open access: yesSAHARA-J, 2007
A survey was administered to 304 respondents participating from three areas near Welkom, South Africa. Face-toface interviews were conducted with women from randomly selected households to evaluate the impact of a service provision programme targeting ...
Madri Jansen van Rensburg
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge apartheid in disaster risk management discourse: Is marrying indigenous and scientific knowledge the missing link?

open access: yesJàmbá, 2015
Indigenous knowledge (IK) is a key component of disaster risk management (DRM) and development planning, yet it is often overlooked, with practitioners preferring to use scientific knowledge.
Mukundi Mutasa
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in the Mbala and Kazungula districts of Zambia

open access: yesOnderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2014
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an acute, highly contagious viral infection of domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals. It is known to be endemic in Zambia, with periodic outbreaks occurring in different geographical areas of the country.
Frank Banda   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Levels, trends and determinants of technical efficiency of general hospitals in Uganda: data envelopment analysis and Tobit regression analysis

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background General hospitals provide a wide range of primary and secondary healthcare services. They accounted for 38% of government funding to health facilities, 8.8% of outpatient department visits and 28% of admissions in Uganda in the financial year ...
Rogers Ayiko   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of foreign direct investment on youth unemployment in the Southern African Development Community

open access: yesDevelopment Southern Africa, 2020
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on youth unemployment in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region using panel data from the World Bank World Development Indicators for the period 1994–2017.
Dadirai Mkombe   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Southern African Development Community

open access: yes, 2022
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has continued to experience an unprecedented increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows for the past three decades. Evidence of their quantitative impact on the economy is still quite mixed.
Nigo, A.
core   +1 more source

Big Data Analytics and Its Role to Support Groundwater Management in the Southern African Development Community

open access: yesWater, 2020
Big data analytics (BDA) is a novel concept focusing on leveraging large volumes of heterogeneous data through advanced analytics to drive information discovery.
Zaheed Gaffoor   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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