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Abstract This paper presents a bio‐economic model of Andit Tid, a severely degraded crop‐livestock farming system with high population density and good market access in the highlands of Ethiopia. Land degradation, population growth, stagnant technology, and drought threaten food security in the area. Drought or weather risk appears to have increased in recent years. The bio‐economic model is used to analyse the combined effects of land degradation, population growth, market imperfections and...
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When vulnerable population groups are numerically small -as is often the case, obtaining representative welfare estimates from non-purposive sample surveys becomes an issue. Building on a method developed by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2003) it is shown how, for census years, estimates of income poverty for small vulnerable populations can be derived by combining sample survey and population census information. The approach is illustrated for Uganda, for which poverty amongst households...
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African Chinese education originated from Chinese traditional education and developed fast. Because it adapted to the need of the time,it brought great success and promoted the African Chinese society.
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African Americans have a long and varied history in Cincinnati, Ohio and in adult education. These histories were subjugated for the most part to the historical narratives of the dominant European American population especially within adult education. Some writers of history from within and outside of the field of education explicated the history of African American adult education and these contributions enriched our knowledge of the various institutions, leaders, programs, and philosophies...
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How black school children at a secondary school in South Africa perceive issues of peace and war is examined. Are the basics in the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child still an imp ...
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This thesis examines the religious knowledge curriculum for junior secondary schools in order to contribute to and reinforce the implementation of the national curriculum as recommended by the national policy on education which favours a more inclusive curriculum. Literature review on the national policy on education, the national curriculum and a brief empirical study on the views of some stakeholders in Nigerian education point to the need for appropriate implementation of Nigeria's...
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Our experience with cadaver collection at the Department of Anatomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria between 9 of February 1998 and 11 of October 2001 is presented. A total of twenty-eight bodies were collected from the State Hospital, Ring Road during this period viz: twenty-six were males (92.9%) and two females (7.1%). Twenty-two (78.6%) were suspected bandits who died during gun duel with law enforcement agents while six (21.4%) were bodies that were accident victims and unclaimed bodies....
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Our experience with cadaver collection at the Department of Anatomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria between 9 of February 1998 and 11 of October 2001 is presented. A total of twenty-eight bodies were collected from the State Hospital, Ring Road during this period viz: twenty-six were males (92.9%) and two females (7.1%). Twenty-two (78.6%) were suspected bandits who died during gun duel with law enforcement agents while six (21.4%) were bodies that were accident victims and unclaimed bodies....
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Our experience with cadaver collection at the Department of Anatomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria between 9 of February 1998 and 11 of October 2001 is presented. A total of twenty-eight bodies were collected from the State Hospital, Ring Road during this period viz: twenty-six were males (92.9%) and two females (7.1%). Twenty-two (78.6%) were suspected bandits who died during gun duel with law enforcement agents while six (21.4%) were bodies that were accident victims and unclaimed bodies....
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In the early 1990s, Tanzania reintroduced a policy of higher educational cost-sharing, designed to slowly move some of the costs of higher education, which in recent years had been borne almost exclusively by the government, toward parents and students as well as toward other nongovernmental parties. This article reports research into the difference this policy seems to have made at Tanzania’s major public university, the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), with particular attention to the...