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A rapidly growing body of research examines how weather variability, anomalies and shocks influence economic and societal outcomes. This study investigates the effects of weather shocks on African smallholder farmers in British colonial Africa and intervenes in the debate on the mediating effect of cash crops on resilience to shocks. We employ a dual research strategy, involving both qualitative and econometric analysis. We analyse original primary evidence retrieved from annual...
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Mainstreaming climate resilient strategy into the systems of urban design, construction and management has to take seriously both climate adaptation and mitigation in shifting the practices of urban planning if the interests of the urban poor are to be advanced. Because of the way that urban poverty has been conceived, the adaptation agenda tends to focus on small-scale household interventions rather than strategic spatial planning, development controls and enforcement. These city scale...
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Introduction: each year nine million children under age five years die. Malnutrition contributes to one-third of these deaths, being the mortality rate for kwashiorkor much higher than for marasmus. Objective: to characterize the patients with kwashiorkor attended in the therapeutic feeding center in Al-Sadaqa Teaching Hospital, Aden, Yemen . Material and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 95 kwashiorkor children (45 males and 50 females) under 5 years of age, 2010-2013....
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When we mention wastes, the first thought goes for the popular kitchen wastes, which we have direct access to. Most often we do not count the end products of our metabolism as wastes, as they are flushed beyond our view or horizon into unknown destination. When we enjoy products of civilisation, we forget the packaging, cans, plastics, bottles and the expired. Leave it for the marketers to sort, please. When we eat food of assorted kind, we neglect the end products of agriculture, especially...
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Integration of technology and education has created dramatic and lasting impact on education provision and consumption and thus a paradigm shift from conventional means to modern education supported by technology. The concept of e-learning is not new in Uganda, but its implementation and integration in the education processes is worth noting, and efforts to that effect have not gone without challenges. Ugandan universities have implemented e-learning as means to increase student enrollment,...
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Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for
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This article explores the support given to Education for Sustainable Agriculture (ESA) bythe South African Agricultural Sciences school curricula. It compares two post-apartheidcurricula: the current Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) and the phased-outNational Curriculum Statement (NCS) for Agricultural Sciences in terms of content,knowledge requirements, cognitive processes and philosophies of education for sustainableagriculture, as well as the role of assessment and the...
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Introduction: Though the possibility of contracting infection from human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) infected patient is very slim, dental professionals show high reluctance to treat such patients. Their attitude and behavior is a reflection of their understanding about the disease. Aim: The aim of the survey was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of dental students toward HIV/acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS), oral indicators, ethical aspects of its treatment, and their...
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Uncontrolled land disposal of olive mill waste water (OMW) can potentially result in soil pollution as a consequence of its high chemical and biochemical oxygen demand and high concentration of phytotoxic phenolic compounds. Although both positive and negative effects of OMW on soil quality have been reported, no clear consensus regarding its direct influence on soil hydrophobicity or soil organic matter (SOM) quality is apparent. An improved understanding of any changes in SOM quality would...
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This chapter highlights one of the most important aspects of the Brazilian black movement since the late nineteenth century: the struggle not only for access to educational institutions but also for curricula substantively inclusive of Africa and its diaspora. In 1978, the Movimento Negro Unificado—MNU (Unified Black Movement) drafted its Carta de Princípios (Charter of Principles), which called for the reassessment of the role of blacks in Brazil’s history. Since 2001, when the adoption of...