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This paper examines how public food procurements contributes to sustainable rural livelihoods through local sourcing of school food, what has become known as ‘home-grown’ school feeding. Specifically, it draws on in-depth interviews to explore the contributions and challenges of using local farmers as suppliers for South Africa’s National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) using the case of the Eastern Cape Province, the country’s poorest province. The study found that participating schools...

Sustainable development of land use is determined by changes of the regional supply of Land Use Functions (LUFs) and the demand of future societal land use claims.LUFs are based on the ecosystem services concept, but more adapted to human land use.In this paper, we assessed 3 scenarios towards sustainable development in djerba in southest Tunisia in order to understand on Participatory assessment of the vulnerability of the fishing sector to climate change.For this, we extended an analytical...

L’article porte sur TICE Afrique, une plateforme d’échange autour du numérique, visant à compléter les formations des enseignants. Certains adhérents y développent de nouvelles compétences numériques. Néanmoins, grâce à une exploration qualitative de leurs verbalisations, l’accès à internet haut débit et à la maitrise de l’outil numérique pour tous est difficile.

This paper investigated some of the teaching challenges Senior Phase Natural Sciences teachers’ experiences during their classroom practices in some of the rural schools positioned in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province of South Africa. It was an interpretative qualitative study wherein two Senior Phase Natural Sciences teachers participated in the study. The data of the study was obtained through individual interviews with teachers as well as lesson observations. The findings show...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the learning of millions of children across the world. Since March 2020 when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Zimbabwe, the country, like many others, has gone through periods of closing and re-opening of schools as part of the national COVID-19 control and mitigation measures. Schools promote the social, mental, physical, and moral development of children. With this viewpoint, the authors argue that schools should not be closed to provide a...

Continuity of care is a fundamental dimension of quality of care and patient satisfaction, because it leads to quality and coordinated health care delivery, increased patient trust and condence. To explore the challenges that patients and Physiotherapy practitioners face regarding continuity of care at the University Teaching Hospitals in Lusaka, Zambia. The study employed a phenomenological qualitative design, using in-depth interviews with eight physiotherapy practitioners and six...

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This study assessed the digital skills of female university students and the implications for higher education in Africa. A descriptive survey was used to sample 100 female university students from four African countries (Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda). The instrument used was the digital competence survey. Two research questions and two hypotheses were postulated and tested. According to the study's findings, most female university students in Nigeria and South Africa have...

Background: HIV index testing, an intervention in which HIV-positive “indexes” (persons diagnosed with HIV) are supported to recruit their “contacts” (sexual partners and children) efficiently identifies HIV-infected persons in need of treatment and HIV-uninfected persons in need of prevention. However, index testing implementation in sub-Saharan African health care settings has been suboptimal. The objective of this study was to develop and pilot test a blended learning capacity-building...

Leaders and teachers are exploring ways to organise their learning spaces as well as their methods of teaching and learning. We aim to explore teachers' experiences of an invitational learning environment in culturally diverse Foundation Phase classrooms in the South African context. The Invitational Learning Theory was used as a theoretical framework. An interpretivist research paradigm was used to portray the lived experiences and personal responses of the participants. Interviews were...

Tourism is a dynamic system essentially connected to all aspects of human and natural environments. Among these tourism systems and products, providers of tourist accommodation stand out. Within this context, water provision is crucial for tourist accommodation. Unfortunately, climate variability, and therefore, water availability, can and does impact tourism systems and tourism products, perhaps disproportionately so. In South Africa generally, and in an established tourism destination...

Heavy metal concentrations in some water bodies and the soil beneath these waters. These would have detrimental consequences on these water users and consumers of the fish in that water. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis technique using the Ghana Research Reactor-1 was employed to find out the concentrations of two heavy metals, Arsenic (As) and Copper (Cu) in the sediments, fishes, and water collected from the Benya Lagoon in the KEEA, Ghana. Cumulatively, Copper was found to be...

Introduction: Peer influence is said to be stronger during adolescence and teenage pregnancy is on the rise in secondary school teenagers Methodology: The research questions were answered through self-administered questionnaires, focused group discussions, and interviews. The population was 200 respondents and the sample size was 132 including; 105 teenagers, 15 teachers, and 12 parents. The samples were randomly, conveniently, and purposively selected from randomly identified 5 secondary...

Young people in Ethiopia aged between 18 and 24 who have had sex before age 18 has increased from 35% in 2005 to 40% in 2016 among women and from 9% to 12% among men.This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors associated with risky sexual behavior among secondary and preparatory students in Wolaita Sodo town, Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia; 2020.A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted from February 4 to 25, 2020. Multistage sampling was employed to select a random...

Abstract This article briefly introduces the phases of education in Ethiopia in the last 150 years and the impact of traditional institutions on languages. The intention of this report is to present the background section of a PhD (Gemechis, 2020) defended at Ghent University in September 2020. It is believed that the period of modern education in Ethiopia is shorter when compared with that of traditional education, which lasted for more than a century. Modern or “Western” education was...

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious virus that causes severe hemorrhagic viral disease resulting in high mortality in domestic and wild pigs, until few antiviral agents can inhibit ASFV infections. Thus, new anti-ASFV drugs need to be urgently identified. Recently, we identified pentagastrin as a potential antiviral drug against ASFVs using molecular docking and machine learning models. However, the scoring functions are easily influenced by properties of protein pockets,...