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We examine a set of potentially climate smart agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotation and legume intercropping, combined with the use of improved seeds and inorganic fertiliser, for their effects on maize yields in Zambia. We use panel data from the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys merged with a novel set of climatic variables based on geo-referenced historical rainfall and temperature data to explore the changing effects of these practices with climatic...

Essentially, it is imperative for any group of people who want to stimulate sustainable societal change in their society to engage in adult education as an integral part of life-long education or learning in the society. Fundamentally, irrespective of people’s educational attainment, there is still an urgent need to continue to learn in life. The guiding philosophy in such continued life-long engagement in life-long education or learning is that there must be obviously a lot of new things...

1.0 INTRODUCTIONAcademic libraries are set up in academic setting solely to support teaching, learning and research. They are the core of the academic set up because; they stock information resource that is relevant to the various disciplines being pursued in the institution. A Polytechnic library is a library set up by the institution to support learning, teaching and research. This is mainly through collaboration with faculty for the provision of recommended and relevant text to support...

Over two million Ghanaians suffer from moderate to mild mental disorders but prevalence levels and determinants among university students remains fairly unknown. A better understanding of depression and its determinants is necessary in developing appropriate interventions in this population group.A convenient sample of 270 students from a public university (132 males and 138 females) were interviewed using a questionnaire to record socio-demographic variables, HIV risk behaviours. Depressive...

The passage of the Persons with Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715) has been considered a noteworthy milestone in Ghana’s human rights discourse because it gives the hope that it will improve the life of persons with disability (PWDs) to enable them be part of mainstream society. Though the Act covers key thematic provisions such as rights, accessibility, employment and education for PWDs amongst others, it has been criticized on the grounds that it has no provision on non-discrimination, the...

The study aimed at investigating kindergarten teachers’ assessment practices based on two subscales: (a) teachers’ modes of assessment frequently used, and (b) their reasons for selecting a particular mode of assessment. The sequential mixed methods research design was employed. The quantitative data were gathered through questionnaires administered to 192 teachers in public and private kindergartens in six regions of Ghana. The qualitative data were gathered through interviews with three...

Education is the key to achieving and sustaining the goals of any society that must develop its citizen. Its adoption as the instrument for national development cannot be over emphasized. Curriculum is a deliberate and direct efforts within a given programme framework for strengthening synergy and relevant services for ensuring the acquisition of knowledge needed for the improvement of man’s surrounding. A strategic curriculum innovation is one of the educational reforms that have been...

The focus of this study was to determine the impact of training and development on the employees' performance and effectiveness at District Five Administration Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.In this study we employed cross sectional institutional based quantitative research method.Data were collected using Likert's scale tool from 100 employees after selecting participants using systematic random sampling technique.Ninety-four complete questionnaires with a response rate of 94% were...

We assess farmers' incentives and the conditioning factors for adoption of agricultural technologies under climate risk and evaluate its impact on food security in Niger. Results show that while the use of modern inputs and organic fertilizers improves productivity, results are unclear for crop residues. Results also show that factors driving modern input use are different than those of crop residues and organic fertilizer which can be characterized at low capital requirements, higher labour...

We assess farmers' incentives and the conditioning factors for adoption of agricultural technologies under climate risk and evaluate its impact on food security in Niger. Results show that while the use of modern inputs and organic fertilizers improves productivity, results are unclear for crop residues. Results also show that factors driving modern input use are different than those of crop residues and organic fertilizer which can be characterized at low capital requirements, higher labour...

This paper assesses farmers' incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi. We distinguish between (i) exposure to climatic disruptions, (ii) bio-physical sensitivity to such disruptions, (iii) household adaptive capacity in terms of farmers' ability to prepare and adjust to the resulting stress, and,...

This paper assesses farmers’ incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi. We distinguish between (i) exposure to climatic disruptions, (ii) bio-physical sensitivity to such disruptions, (iii) household adaptive capacity in terms of farmers’ ability to prepare and adjust to the resulting stress, and,...

This descriptive cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the sources of stress, the stress management strategies, and the resilience among Junior and Senior nursing students at different nursing schools in Ghana. 240 students enrolled in different schools in Ghana were surveyed during the month of September 2013. The data collected were analyzed through SPSS. Descriptive statistics (Mean and Standard Deviation) and inferential statistics (t test and ANOVA) were used to compare the Junior...

This study aimed at determining the use of problem-solving training in reducing mathematics anxiety among a group of senior secondary school students in Ogun State, Nigeria area. A 2 x 2 pre-test, post-test factorial design (treatment and gender) was used in the study. 120 students who had high scores on the mathematics anxiety scale were randomly selected from the 492 students which responded to the scale. Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale-Revised (MARS-R) by Plake and Parker (1982) was the...

This study was intended to examine the influence of Management of Employee Development Programme on Performance in Yumbe District – Uganda. The study adopted a Case Study Design to allow in-depth study. Quantitative and Qualitative approaches were employed. A total of 218 questionnaires were administered to the respondents and 179 questionnaires were received back registering a response rate of 82%. Descriptive statistics were computed. Inferential statistical analysis included correlation...

This study was intended to examine the influence of “On-the-Job” Training on Performance in Yumbe District – Uganda. The study adopted a Case Study Design to allow in-depth study. Quantitative and Qualitative approaches were employed. A total of 218 questionnaires were administered to the respondents and 179 questionnaires were received back, registering a response rate of 82%. Descriptive statistics were computed. Inferential statistical analysis including correlation and multiple...

Motivated by the April 2015 World Bank Publication on MDGs which reveals that poverty has been declining in all regions of the world with the exception of African countries, this study investigates the effects of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with forward orthogonal deviations are employed. The empirical evidence is based on an updated sample of 53 African countries...