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The 1970s–1980s droughts in the Sahel caused a significant degradation of land and plant cover. To cope with this situation, populations have developed several biophysical and social adaptation practices. Many of these are agroforestry practices and contribute to the maintenance of agrosystems. Unfortunately, they remain insufficiently documented and their contributions to the resilience of agrosystems insufficiently evaluated. Many authors widely link the regreening in the Sahel after...

In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, private schools are often considered to offer better quality of education than government schools. Yet, there is a lack of evidence to date on their role in reducing inequalities: namely, the extent to which private schooling improves learning among the most disadvantaged children. Our paper uses household survey data from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to identify whether any observed impact of private schooling on core literacy and numeracy...

The relevance of students’ academic interest in mathematics is of great concern to stakeholders in education. The present study models students’ interest in mathematics (SIM) using mathematics facility (MF), mathematics connection (MC), teacher motivation (TM) as well as instructor quality and availability (IQA). The study randomly selected 1500 students from 10 senior high schools from the Ashanti region of Ghana; however, 1,263 of the participants fully participated in the study. These...

Globally, communities are increasingly impacted by the stressors of climate change. In response, people may adapt to maintain their livelihoods and overall health and nutrition. However, the relationship between climate adaptation and human nutrition is poorly understood and results of adaptation are often unclear. We investigated the relationship between adaptation and child nutrition, in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) during an extreme drought. Households varied in both adaptation behavior...

The crisis in the quality of South African education is evident in a growing perception among South Africans that public schooling will not be able to enhance the educational outcomes and future of their children. This has resulted in a flight trend of learners across all types of primary and secondary education. Historically (pre-1994), South African parents were not actively involved in making choices regarding the schools their children would attend. Democracy opened the door to this...

In some low-income countries, low-fee private schools targeting relatively poor communities have sprung up in considerable numbers meeting growing demand. This is often the case where government is not providing enough school places, but also where parents could access government schools for their children but choose not to, due to perceived low quality of provision. This research study sought to find out if non-state schooling has developed to any considerable extent in the Mozambican...

Bystanders can improve the outcome in emergencies by activating the "chain of survival." Gaza's (Palestine) population has little, if any, access to training in Basic Life Support (BLS) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The goal was to recruit local medical students to be life-saving first aid instructors, and have them train 3,000 laypeople in BLS and CPR.One hundred and seventeen medical students from Al Azhar University-Gaza (Gaza City, Palestine) were trained as BLS and CPR...

The paper sets out to challenge the notions of ‘affordable’ private schools in the context of South Africa. It is guided by one main question: ‘affordable private schools for whom?’ It argues that, contrary to claims by its public and private proponents, affordable private schools in South Africa do not cater for poor children. Their rise has coincided with the emergence, in the post-apartheid period, of a—mostly black—middle class. However, despite its imprecision, the ‘affordable’...

This study looked at the effects of home tutoring programme on reading achievement of primary school children with dyslexic learning disability in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger state, Nigeria. The study adopted quasi experimental design, and particularly it employed the pretest - posttest control – experimental group design. A sample of eight (8) pupils was taken (four in the experimental and four in the control group). Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the...

The aim of this study was to determine the factors that influence the resilience of smallholder farming households in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. This study utilised primary data collected from 207 smallholder livestock farmers and the probit model. The study contributes to the existing literature by constructing an agricultural drought resilience index (ADRI) as an outcome variable in order to determine the factors that influence the resilience of smallholder farmers to...

The educational system plays a crucial role in the development of nations, and the impact of using ICT by a lecture to deliver lecture to the student in University of Tripoli.However, this study aims to explore the impact of age, gender, culture and language toward the use of ICT by lecturer in Libya University.Moreover, previous studies highlighted that age, gender, culture, and language affect lecturers due to different countries that they went to study and the technology age affect use...

This article assesses the feasibility of small grains as an adaptive strategy to climate change in the Mangwe District in Zimbabwe. The change in climate has drastically affected rainfall patterns across the globe and in Zimbabwe in particular. Continuous prevalence of droughts in Zimbabwe, coupled with other economic calamities facing the Southern African country, has contributed to a larger extent to the reduction in grain production among communal farmers, most of whom are in semi-arid...

The central issue addressed in this paper is the demand for improvements in the space granted to African philosophy in African universities. I offer and elaborate on the most basic reasons for this demand, which includes amongst others: 1) the obsoleteness of the reasons given for the current trend of focusing on Western philosophy 2) the fact that very few teachers of philosophy in Africa are focused mainly or only on Western philosophy in their academic productivity and 3) the disparity...

In Syria, high-Sensitive C-Reactive (hsCRP), folate, and, other health risk data in young women are limited. This cross-sectional study evaluates hsCRP and folate levels along with anthropometric characteristics, lifestyle factors and some biomarkers linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in healthy female students (n = 207, 18-25 years old). Among participants, hsCRP level was at average or high risk of CVD in 20.7% and 2.5% respectively and it was significantly higher in...

Modu wa taba Lenaneo la thuto le tlhoka gore re tsebe ka nako tsotlhe gore le lebane motho wa mohuta mang. Bjaleka ge motho e le motho ka batho go tlhokagala gore batho kamoka re kopane go resisana mabapi le motho yo a lebaneng ke lenaneo la thutho. Bokgoba bo sa tswela pele Afrika Borwa kgorong ya thuto le matlhakoreng a mang a bophelo. Ke tshwanelo go lwantsha bokgoba bjo go fitlhela bo fengwa. Phenyo ga e reye gore re feditse. E tlhatholla gore re dule re letile re tlhatlhoba ka nako...

Silence and invisibility have received relatively little scholarly attention. When they have, they have been mostly considered in deficit: something to avoid and walk away from. In this article, I depart from that mainstream position to contribute to the growing literature around how silence and invisibility may be positively associated with power. I do this by considering the case of Mozambique, in relation to the management of pregnancies in the school setting. Here, national policy...

Often, when the concept “African culture” arises in philosophical discourses among Africans, debates tend to be characterised by a dichotomous line between those who insist on the existence of “one African culture” and those rejecting the existence of such, insisting rather on the plurality and heterogeneity of “African cultures”. In this debate the interlocutors tend to speak past one another, thus missing the opportunity to appreciate the richness that could benefit both sides of the...