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Landless peasants, soilless cultivation: British agricultural experimentation and intervention in post‐independence Iraq (1932–1958)

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
wiley   +1 more source

No. 59: The Third Wave: Mixed Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa has been extremely well-documented by researchers. In this paper, we suggest that there is a need to periodize these migration flows in order to understand how and why they have changed over time, not simply in ...
Chikanda, Abel   +2 more
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Assessing the Impact of Results-Based Financing on Health System Strengthening in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Marondera and Zvishavane Districts

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies
The study aims to assess how the Results-Based Finance programme in Zimbabwe strengthened the health system, guided by the World Health Organisation’s six building blocks, using a case study of Marondera and Zvishavane districts.
Artwell Manyera   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prospective of indigenous African wild food plants in alleviation of the severe iron deficiency anaemia in Sub‐Saharan Africa

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Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

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Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Zimbabwe needs a long term industrial strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This is a paper by Boston University professor Ann ...
Seidman, Ann
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Linking to images and AI‐based identification tools—The only way for Flora projects to survive

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Floras are comprehensive and authoritative catalogues of plants growing in an area of interest. They help people find and name plants, which is achieved by a combination of images, drawings, and text, rarely also maps. Like other catalogues (lexica, dictionaries, telephone books), Floras will not survive unless they move online and become portable ...
Susanne S. Renner
wiley   +1 more source

The Cost of Zimbabwe's Continuing Farm Invasions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the late 1990s, the government of Zimbabwe held a conference on land reform in Zimbabwe. The government, the interested parties (including the farmers), and international aid agencies reached a broad agreement.
Eddie Cross
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Analysis of Corporate Governance on the Business Operations of the Grain Marketing Board and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority

open access: yesJournal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies
Purpose: The study sought to analyse how corporate governance was affecting the business operations of Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA). These two parastatals have had challenges of corporate governance which
Titos Mbambi, Dominic Uzhenyu
doaj   +1 more source

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