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This study adopted descriptive survey design of ex post type to examine the extent to which self-esteem, parental involvement and religiosity predicted risky sexual behaviours among female in-school adolescents in Delta state, Nigeria. Four hundred adolescents whose age ranged from 15 to 19 (SD=17.37) were drawn using Multi-stage sampling technique. Three standardized and one researcher developed self-report measures were used for data collection. Pearson Product Moment Correlation and...

This descriptive phenomenological study investigates teachers’ experiences of using sign language for learners who are deaf in the primary schools in Botswana. Eight in-service teachers who have had more than ten years of teaching deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) learners were purposively selected for this study. Data were collected using multiple strategies: (i) written open ended questionnaire, (ii) focus group discussions, and followed by (iii) individual interviews. Moustakas’ modified van...

This study is a descriptive survey which aims at finding out how faculty members in colleges of Education in south eastern Nigeria make use of the internet in their professional practices. A sample of 350 lecturers was proportionately randomly taken from faculty members in the colleges in the zone. A set of researcher made questionnaire tagged Internet Use Scale (IUS) was used to collect data from the respondents. Data collected was subjected to analysis using frequencies, percentages,...

The U.S. National Climate Assessment concluded that climate change is harming the health of many Americans and identified people in some communities of color as particularly vulnerable to these effects. In Spring 2014, we surveyed members of the National Medical Association, a society of African American physicians who care for a disproportionate number of African American patients, to determine whether they were seeing the health effects of climate change in their practices; the response...

Tomato growing is an adaptation strategy to rainfall variability and droughts that frequently result into loss of the maize crop during the rainy season. This study assesses yield performances of tomato genotypes under elevated dry season air temperatures in semi-arid environments as a climate change adaptive practice. Tomato is mostly grown in June through August months. The dry season is characterized by maximum daily temperatures (34.2 °C), low night temperatures (14.8 °C) and monthly...

The present study focus on a statistical approach for improving climate prediction for the region of the Bouregreg basin in the northwest of Morocco.The aim was to examine the past drought conditions and to find their trend under climate change conditions.Past and future drought conditions were assessed using Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) by considering the emission scenarios A2 and B2 for three periods 2014-2040, 2041-2070 and 2071-2099.A statistical downscaling method was applied to...

Farmers in Mukuyuni can easily adopt drought mitigating technologies like cassava and sweetpotato. They are mainly propagated through stem cuttings or vines to produce starchy tuberous roots, which would provide the much needed carbohydrates if promoted properly. The results showed that about 90 % of the farmers put between 0.125 and 0.25 acres under cassava cultivation. The number of years under cassava and sweetpotato production ranged between 1 and 20 years with only a few farmers...

Climate change is expected to be one of the major threats to sustained economic growth leading to extended poverty in semi-arid regions of sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The areas of highest vulnerability are the health sector, food production, biodiversity, water resources, and rangelands. Climate change will likely create increasingly high temperatures and dry conditions across much of the globe in the next 30 years, especially along large parts of Eurasia, Africa and Australia. Many of the...

Drier parts of Embu County, Eastern Kenya, endure persistent crop failure and declining agricultural productivity which have been attributed, in part, to prolonged dry-spells and erratic rainfall. Nonetheless, understanding spatial-temporal variability of rainfall especially at seasonal level, is an imperative facet to rain-fed agricultural productivity and natural resource management (NRM). This study evaluated the extent of seasonal rainfall variability and the drought characteristics as...

The aim of this study is to assess the extent to which scientific information has been used to inform climate change adaptation policies, plans and strategies in Kenya; and also to assess the effectiveness of existing platforms for sharing climate change information in the country. Two major policy documents guiding climate change adaptation planning in Kenya, the National Climate Change Response Strategy (NCCRS) and the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP), were analysed for use of...

Abstract This chapter examines the status of education in post-apartheid Africa. It discusses trends in educational attainment; the racial gap in education as youth progress through school; grade repetition; academic performance; and school funding and school fees.

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of maize, sorghum, common bean and pigeon pea varieties under different water management in a cool and wet region of Central Kenya, as a part of the studies at analogue sites. The first experiment evaluated the growth and performance of three varieties (early maturing: EM, medium maturing: MM and late maturing: LM) of maize (Zea mays L), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris...

Climate analogues can be used to assess climate–induced risks and adaptation options for smallholder farmers. Surveys were carried out in smallholder areas at two 2050s climate analogue sites to assess smallholder climate-induced risks, farmers’ perceptions, and adaptation options, with a gender perspective. Pairs of sites selected had similar annual rainfall totals but differed in mean annual temperature by 2–4 °C. For drier areas Chiredzi was hypothesised to represent Matobo, and for...

Scenario analysis using data generated from APSIM model was conducted to investigate the effect of soil and water conservation practices (tied ridges and mulching) on grain yield of improved maize varieties (Katumani and Makueni) generated with and without N fertilizers under below normal (<250 mm), normal (≥250 < 350 mm) and above normal seasons (≥350 mm) in two sites, Katumani and Makindu in Machakos and Makueni counties Eastern Kenya. Results indicate that the yields were significant...

Given that climate change and variability have become one of the greatest threats to food security and livelihoods, a baseline study and some literature synthesis were conducted to understand the current situation of CC scenarios in Kenya. The study sought to determine the current status of CC projects that have been undertaken in Kenya in the past five years. Major CC themes and sensitive productive sectors to CC were conceptualized in which the study was based. The baseline survey targeted...

From 2011 to 2014, the CALESA project was a research-for-development project which coupled integrated climate risk analyses, crop growth simulation modelling and field-based research both on-station and on-the-ground with participatory research with farmers. It comprised research-oriented activities for knowledge and technology creation, and development-oriented activities for information sharing and capacity building. The main purpose of the CALESA project was to develop sound adaptation...

This study aimed to examine the influence of age, tenure and education on organizational commitment in a developing country context.Focusing on Nigeria's dynamic banking sector, participants' age, tenure and level of education were measured against the three components of organizational commitment -affective, continuance and normative -in selected commercial banks to determine their relationship.The sample consisted of 303 full-time managerial and non-managerial employees from eight...