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The climate of Southern Africa is highly variable at most time-scales and follows a pronounced gradient with arid conditions in the west and humid conditions in the east. There is also a marked latitudinal rainfall distribution pattern, with the southern part having a low rainfall index and high variability and the northern part having higher annual rainfall and lower interannual variability (Kandji et al., 2006). Over the last 100 years, temperatures have increased by about 0.5◦C in...
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The importance of information has influenced many organizations especially in developed countries such as UK and USA to invest in their information management budget to ensure their survival and comply with the law requirement of their countries. Information could determine the organizations’ success or failures since the process of decisions making mainly must be based on it. To be of value, information must be recorded. This recorded information which contains evident must be preserved....
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Understanding what is read is essential to academic success in general and literacy development in particular. The aim of any textbook, especially English language textbooks for second language learners is to help readers improve their English language competence. This aim is defeated when students cannot read texts intended for them. One factor which makes a reading material unreadable is the complexity of the language used in relation to the reading ability of the reader. Research has...
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How far can new technologies taught to a small number of selected farmers diffuse to other farmers in a village? In order to answer this question, this paper investigates the impact of JICA training on the adoption of rice cultivation technologies and productivity in an irrigation scheme in Tanzania. By using a unique five-year panel data set and spatial econometric techniques, we found that non-trained farmers learned new technologies from trained farmers through social networks and by...
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The following sections are included: Introduction Farming System Investigated Stakeholder Interactions, Meetings, and Representative Agricultural Pathways Data and Methods of Study Adaptation Package Core Question 1: What Is the Sensitivity of Current Agricultural Production Systems to Climate Change? AgMIP Core Question 1: What is the Sensitivity of Current Agricultural Production System to Climate change? AgMIPCore Question 2:WhatIs the Impact of Climate Change on...
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These two books form part of the series edited by Colin Brock aiming to provide an account of education in ‘virtually every territory’ in the world. They are companion volumes to the interesting an...
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The study investigated students’ productivity in secondary schools in Bayelsa State. The population of the study was 167 secondary schools with 2,487 teachers in Bayelsa State. A sample size of 497 teachers was drawn using the stratified sampling technique, which represented 20% of the population. The instrument used was the questionnaire titled Students and Teachers Education Productivity Questionnaire (STEPQ) with a reliability co-efficient index of .733. Document analysis was also used....