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EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN ADDRESSING ILLEGAL ACQUISITION OF STATE LAND IN ZAMBIA: CASE OF MINISTRY OF LANDS AND KITWE MUNICIPALITY

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
Like in a number of African countries, the issue of illegal acquisition of state land is evident in Zambia. There are public land institutions (that is, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and Local Authorities) mandated to deal with illegal ...
Anthony Mushinge   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Improved Maize Varieties on Food Security in Eastern Zambia: A Doubly Robust Analysis

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, 2018
This study investigates the impact of improved maize varieties on household food security in eastern Zambia using household survey data from a sample of over 800 rural households.
Julius Manda   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health system response to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV policy changes in Zambia: a health system dynamics analysis of primary health care facilities

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2022
Background Zambia is focusing on attaining HIV epidemic control by 2021, including eliminating Mother to Child Transmission (eMTCT) of HIV. However, there is little evidence to understand frontline healthcare workers’ experience with the policy changes ...
Jonathan Mwanza   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Associated with Household Food Security in Zambia

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
Food security is a global challenge and threatens mainly smallholder farmers in developing countries. The main aim of this paper is to determine factors that are associated with food security in Zambia.
William Nkomoki, M. Bavorova, Jan Banout
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring Resistive Switching in Novel Amorphous Phosphate Glasses for Next‐Generation Memory Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study explores amorphous phosphate semiconductor glass for resistive random access memory (RRAM) applications. The nanodevices exhibit distinct resistive switching via trap‐assisted tunneling, space‐charge‐limited current, and Ohmic transport.
Hong‐Lin Lu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antimicrobial stewardship knowledge and perception among physicians and pharmacists at leading tertiary teaching hospitals in Zambia: implications for future policy and practice

open access: yesJournal of chemotherapy, 2019
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is a key strategy promoting rational antimicrobial use. In Zambia, information on health professionals’ knowledge, attitude, and practice of AMS is limited.
A. Kalungia   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Revisiting a long‐overlooked skull: Implications for the distribution of Dinodontosaurus brevirostris (Kannemeyeriiformes) in the Brazilian Triassic

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dicynodonts (Anomodontia: Dicynodontia) were one of the main groups of terrestrial tetrapods in Permian and Triassic faunas. In Brazil, the genus Dinodontosaurus is one of the most common tetrapod taxon in the Triassic Santa Maria Supersequence. This genus has a complex taxonomic history and is represented in the Triassic of both Argentina and
Julia Lara Rodrigues de Souza   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Informatization and Technical Efficiency in Maize Production in Zambia

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
The cropland productivity gap between Africa and the rest of the world is widening. Fortunately, increasing farmers’ access to useful agricultural information reduces the costs of searching for information, thereby leading to higher agricultural ...
G. Mwalupaso   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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