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Keystones affecting sub-Saharan Africa's prospects for achieving foodsecurity through balanced diets
(Elsevier, 2018)
Socio-economic dynamics determine the transition from diets characterized by the risk of famine, to thosecharacterized by the risk of diet-related non-communicable disease (DR-NCD). This transition is of particularconcern ...
The V-model of service quality: An African case study
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017)
This paper aims to introduce and demonstrate a new model for service quality that separates out the measurement of service quality in ways grounded in psychological theory and methodological symmetry.A review of experience ...
Party support and voter behaviour in the Western Cape: Trends and patterns since 1994
(Sabinet, 2010)
Since 1994 election outcomes in the Western Cape have been examined
through analyses of the ‘coloured vote’. These explanations, which are
premised on the racially based motivations of voters, feed into the choices,
rhetoric ...
Encouraging smallholder farmer livelihoods and constructing food security through home-grown school feeding: Evidence from Northern Ghana
(Centro Universitário de Brasilia, 2018)
Globally, a new school feeding paradigm is emerging; one that incentivises smallholder farmers’ access to reliable markets and boosts their incomes.
Drawing on the Ghana School Feeding Programme and Netherlands Development ...
Casual implication of Oil Production on Carbon Emission and Economic Growth in Nigeria
(Opole University, 2016)
The paper investigated the causality among carbon emission, oil production and economic growth in
Nigeria’s time series data for the period 1970 to 2013. It estimated an autoregressive distributed lag model and used
granger ...
Globalization, the latest mode of production in the world system: How regional powers have intensified and expanded capitalism
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2018)
This article examines globalization as a mode of production, tracing it from the pre-capitalist mode in Africa and linking it to the capitalist mode and, finally, the globalization mode. It is intensified and directed by ...
Implementing free Wi-Fi in underprivileged communities: A case study of Project Isizwe
(IEEE, 2017)
A key tool in the fight against poverty and bridging the gap between privileged and underprivileged is access to information. Free Internet connectivity is central to providing this access. This research paper focuses on ...
Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
During the post-liberalization period, contract farming schemes have become a
recurrent feature of agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. Contract
farming is not a new phenomenon in the continent but it has gained ...
Digital technologies and sustainable livestock systems in rural communities
(John Wiley & Sons, 2017)
The 43rd Committee on World Food Security (CFS) convention reiterated the importance of
livestock towards eliminating food insecurity across the globe. Livestock provides extensive
services and products which are critical ...
The terrain of urbanisation process and policy frameworks: A critical analysis of the Kampala experience
(Cogent OA, 2017)
Kampala is urbanising in an unplanned manner, but without a clear picture of the underlying dynamics. The city is characterised by lack of proper zoning
of economic activities and construction of physical infrastructure ...