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This study is an attempt of the combination of multiple data sources referring to the same time period and to the same farmer population, it aims at assessing the potential impact of a cocoa Farmer Field School Training on Integrated Pest Management in Cameroon. Using a combination of a latitudinal and a longitudinal comparison, the results indicate that FFS-trained farmers have significantly more knowledge about crop husbandry practices than those in the non-participant comparison group. A...

A Research Project Submitted to the institute of Open and Distance learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Award of Degree of Bachelor of Education In Early Childhood and Primary Education Of Kampala International University

Abstract The argument of this paper is that the use of distance education methods is essential for the provision of all teacher education in South Africa – not just an option for a few programmes in one or two institutions. For this reason, the challenges of distance teacher education are the major challenges for achieving the goal set out in the National Policy Framework for Teacher Education and Development: ‘more teachers, better teachers’. Challenges include increasing the flexibility...

This ¢eld report summarizes the general psychosocial training topics, describes two critical sessions and presents outcomes from a training of trainers conducted in Africa, with twenty-¢ve psychosocial ¢eld practitioners from ¢fteen non-governmental organizations, on the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The training goals were to support a core group of resource persons for Africa on emergency psychosocial work, and...

Climate change will have a great impact on Southern Africa according to the IPCC. Two closely related topics, food security and health will be affected by the changes in many ways. Difficulties in transporting food through carbon regulations in air-freight, changing conditions for growing food crops and negative impacts on fishery might occur and will very possible lead to an increase in malnutrition in the region. Changes of the climate will also have an effect on the way illnesses are...

The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) II data are analysed, using multilevel modelling techniques, to explore the key issues underlying the development of school effectiveness models. Differences between schools in Grade 6 pupils’ reading and mathematics achievements are examined and the percentage of variance in pupil outcomes attributable to school and country levels is estimated before and after adjusting for various factors. A wide range...

Exposure to lead (Pb) through food, water, or contaminated air has adverse health impacts that are particularly severe in children. Many countries have outlawed the use of leaded petrol, and enacted policies and regulations limiting lead pollution, and lead levels in foods. However, African countries, including Kenya, have generally been slow in adopting policies and regulatory structures concerning lead pollution. The main objective of this study was to determine lead contamination levels...

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part AVolume 146A, Issue 23 p. 3086-3089 Research Letter A novel mutation in the Espin gene causes autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss but no apparent vestibular dysfunction in a Moroccan family† Redouane Boulouiz, Corresponding Author Redouane Boulouiz [email protected] Department of Genetics, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco Faculté des Sciences Université Chouaib Doukkali, El-Jadida, MoroccoDepartment of Human Genetics, Institut...

South Africa (SA) and Benin have in common a desire to produce milk and dairy products in line with international norms and guidelines while protecting the environment (DE, 2003, 2004, 2005; Fedics, 2006; Jordan & Kraamwinkel, 2007; MAEP/ DE/ PDE III, 2004 (a) and (b)). The increase in dairy production observed in South Africa and in Benin, both developing countries and situated in sub-Saharan Africa, should take into account the potential hazards linked to water pollution (Steinfeld et al.,...

The head teachers’ role is to promote academic performance. It is therefore important that the performance of a school is appraised against the performance of the person who leads it. The purpose of the study was to investigate the instructional role of the head-teacher in academic achievement in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in Vihiga district of Western province. The population of the study comprised 84 head-teachers and 1,280 teachers serving in the 84...

There may have been a time when we in Kenyan considered the use or abuse of drugs as a problem relating only to Western world. Today it has become an African problem to the extend that a month hardly passes without media reports on large quantities of drugs having been intercepted in a number of African cities and towns. The results of the study indicated that students abused drugs for varied reasons and the commonly abused drugs were alcohol, bhang, miraa, tobacco and kuber. The study...

Normal values of inner and outer intercanthal distances in a student population in Nigeria were studied.A total of 460 students (264 males and 196 females) with mean age of 23.27±3.48years for males and 21.37±2.82years for females volunteered to be subjects in this study.The inner intercanthal distance (IICD) and outer intercanthal distance (OICD) were measured between the medial and lateral ends of the palpabral fissures respectively using a metric ruler.Other measurements taken were...

Knowledge is power and the need for knowledge brings about education. Therefore, the need for education for personal and societal development and empowerment cannot be overemphasized hence the education of males and females is never a waste. Women can contribute to the development of any society/nation if empowered and as such they should be exposed to the necessary education. This paper discusses women education and its benefits. It also discusses the challenges women face and suggested...

Evidence for volcano collapse and debris avalanche deposits (DADs) at Oldoinyo Lengai (OL), Tanzania, has been obtained from mapping and fieldwork. Three major DADs have been identified, named Zebra, Cheetah and Oryx DADs. Field evidence indicates geologically young ages. On this basis a remote sensing (RS) study of the active carbonatite volcano OL and the surrounding rift plain was carried out, using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation data, Landsat and ASTER imagery,...

Book scarcity is an unhealthy development any university library would want to disassociate from. This ill wind started blowing around the libraries in 1982 when Nigeria's economy started nose-diving. Books are indeed very useful in a child's healthy upbringing, exploration into the lives of a people, development of thinking ability, determination of a nation's value system, supporting curriculum development and provision of yardstick for assessing quality of scholarship in the universities....