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Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical SeriesVolume 59, Issue 11 p. 24086C-24087A Policy and Practice KENYA: Drought Mitigation First published: 11 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6346.2022.10873.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of...
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Climate change has emerged as a global concern, especially its negative impacts on agriculture, particularly amongst poor subsistence and smallholder farmers because of the sector's dependency on rainfall.The impacts of climate change and climate related extreme events may vary among farmers within the same locality based on the interplay of factors such as differences in households' socio-demographic and economic characteristics.The extent of the impacts of climate change depends on the...
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The degree to which secondary schools will achieve their aims and objectives depends on how well teachers are able to execute their teaching-learning activities. This is true since it is the teacher's responsibility to carry out pedagogical tasks and ensure that learning objectives are met. Secondary school teachers are expected to prepare lesson plans, deliver lessons using the best teaching techniques, maintain classroom order and manage students during lessons, assess students' progress...
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The study investigated principals’ management strategies for secondary education students’ security and governance beyond COVID-19 pandemic in Anambra State. A descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised 1002 secondary school teachers from 10 public secondary schools in Onitsha North L.G.A of Anambra State. 120 respondents were sampled using a multi-stage sampling procedure which involved simple random and accidental sampling techniques. Three...
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Former Rhodes University students, co-authors of this article, were engaged in a knowledge-making project during the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper is a product of that project, where participants deliberated on the inequalities in the education sector based on their experiences in their university. These were exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic. Using a decolonial theoretical lens, they present the experiences of students to critique university decisions at the time. They argue for a...
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Rapid urban and population growth in the Kano metropolis is causing a total distortion of the natural environment and affecting the environmental quality for human habitation. This study evaluates the extent of water pollution to urban growth environmental impacts in the Kano metropolis. Water pollution samples were taken from existing historic ponds in the metropolis. Two ponds were selected: Haura Wanki with coordinates 11.98319500 and 08.50883333 located along Bayero University Road and...
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Food Security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.African continent is found to be the most susceptible and vulnerable places to climate change impacts, which is marked as the most food insecure region in the world, because of its reliance on climate sensitive and vulnerable economic sectors (rain fed agriculture) and its lower financial,...
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The study investigated the relationship between school plant variables and teacher productivity in secondary schools in Ekiti State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research. The population consisted of all the schools and its teachers while the sample consisted 240 teachers selected from 24 secondary schools across the three senatorial districts in Ekiti State using simple random sampling technique. The two sets of instruments tagged “School Plant Questionnaire (SPQ)” and “Teacher...
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The COVID -19 pandemic has highlighted various social, economic, psychological, financial, and physical challenges that learners encounter in South Africa.Learners continue to face challenges of ineffective and inaccurate career decisions when in secondary schools.This predicament makes them choose wrong careers leading to low level functioning in the later world of work.These challenges have continued to receive much attention in the media and in various policy documents.Learners continue...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic is an emergency that requires higher education administrators to design responses that mitigate the challenges of saving lives, simultaneously saving their academic years through non-disruption of educational programs.This study aims to examine how one university and one TVET college in South Africa responded to the teaching and learning challenges imposed by COVID-19 during the 2021-2021 academic cycle.The study followed an exploratory sequential mixed-method approach,...
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Sustainable and inclusive scaling of irrigation technologies and services in EthiopiaKey issuesThere is significant potential for irrigation development in Ethiopia (MoFED 2013), including small-scale, farmer-led irrigation.However, innovative irrigation technologies and services largely remain underutilized, and many smallholder farmers continue to use rudimentary practices (Minh et al. 2021).One reason for this is that many interventions end at the piloting stage, with the assumption that...
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Several institutions amplected the tremendous variants technology offers in the advent of the covid-19 outbreak, bringing a paradigm shift in various fields regardless of digital competence and availability of resources.Many sectors, education inclusive had to adjust to the "new normal" transforming education drastically with a distinctive rise of e-learning as a pandemic management tool for tumultuous circumstances.E-learning was globally promoted to replace the conventional approach...
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This study examines the teacher’s professional development and internal efficiency in state primary schools in the Nyong and Mfoumou Division. The problem arises from a rippling fall in the internal efficiency in primary schools perceived in low input and poor quality of in-service training. Teachers’ interest is derelict during in-service training, they are not provided real-time ICT tools, and they lack curriculum knowledge and classroom leadership style. This study adopts the descriptive...