ABSTRACT Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is one of the crops being considered for the diversification of the staple diet to enhance food security in Zimbabwe in the face of climate change and economic challenges. One of the hurdles preventing adoption of sweet potato as a staple food is its short shelf-life. There has been a call to explore means of preserving sweet potato hence increasing its shelf-life and one method of preservation is processing sweet potato into flour. However, this metho...
ABSTRACT Since the first few cases were reported in 1981, HIV/AIDS and its related illnesses have been one of the prominent causes of death globally. The disease has been estimated to reduce economic growth rates by 2-4% a year across Africa. This study examines the trends and determinants of comprehensive knowledge (CK) of HIV/AIDS among Ghanaians. The data used for this study were drawn from Ghana Demographic Health Surveys, 1998- 2014. A separate analysis was performed on each survey-year ...
ABSTRACT This dissertation applied time series model to study the impact of HIV and Tuberculosis with implications on productivity of Benue state farmers using cointegrated autoregressive model and granger causality test. The study utilize monthly time series data on the serologically confirmed and reported cases of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) in Benue state of Nigeria covering the fiscal year from January, 2007 to Decembers, 2016 and employed dickey-fuller Generalized least square unit ...