ABSTRACT Highland catchments of Lake Manyara basin are undergoing degradation through human activities from the adjacent communities. This study was conducted to assess the impact of farming systems on vegetations in the highland catchments of Lake Manyara basin namely Chemchem and Endabash rivers. The specific objectives were to identify the farming systems used and their sustainability with regard to wetland conservation, assess and compare the plant species composition and diversity betwe...
ABSTRACT Local communities in Tanzania have been struggling to adapt to climate change and variability and have already adopted use of different local knowledge and practices under various adaptation mechanisms to respond to climate change impacts in different ecological zones and livelihoods. The role of local knowledge and practices in enhancing adaptation are not well studied and documented. This study aimed to assess roles of community-based institutions, partnerships, networks and pract...
ABSTRACT This paper tests the validity of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis for two Anglophone ECOWAS members, Nigeria and Ghana. The researcher tested the relative PPP equation. It also employed the ADF univariate Unit Root test for the stationarity of the exchange rates of each of the countries. Exchange rates and CPIs data for all countries were collected on annual basis for the period between 1970 and 2005. The results show the non-rejection of the null hypothesis of the fail...
ABSTRACT Globally, both scholars and policy-makers concur that entrepreneurship is instrumental for new venture formation, economic growth and technological progress. Theoretically, there is a general inclination that entrepreneurship education automatically yields entrepreneurial intention. However, few empirical studies examining the direct influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention have yielded inconsistent results. Though personality traits and attitudes are crit...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of work-family conflict among nurses in Nigeria. The descriptive survey research method will be adopted for the study. A total of 200 respondents were selected and used for the study using proportionate stratify sampling technique. Questionnaires instrument on work-family conflict was developed by Carlson, Kacmar, and Williams (2000) and revalidated by Amazue (2011) were used for data collection and they include Work-family role conflict scale and ...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on foreign aid and poverty dynamics in Africa. Specifically, the study addressed two objectives ;(1) the relationship between poverty and aid and (2) the relationship between mortality rate and aid. Following these objectives, the study used fixed effects estimation techniques for the two objectives, the choice of which was determined empirically using Hausman test. Based on this technique, the following results were arrived at:(1) that the coefficient of offi...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Lake Mweru-wantipa aimed at assessing abundance of zooplankton and its relationships with physico-chemical parameters. Four sampling stations were selected, two on each side of the Lake; the National Park and settlement. Five physico-chemical parameters including, temperature, turbidity, salinity, pH and dissolved oxygen were measured monthly using portable instruments concurrently with collection of duplet zooplankton samples at each sampling point at d...
ABSTRACT The fast pace of economic growth in Kenya has created a large demand for meat products. This stands at an annual average of about 600,000 metric tonnes of red meat which is expected to continue rising according to global animal product consumption trends. Consequent challenges in management of increasing volumes of high strength wastewater have necessitated ardent research into sustainable technologies, for which vertical flow wetlands offer a promising solution. Three month experime...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at determining the quality of wild vegetables under different growing conditions. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire and single time collected samples from planted wild vegetables were laboratory tested to determine nutrient values. SAS statistical tool was used to analyse the data. Vitamin C content was found to be highest in Solanun scabrum (3.40 ± 0.1mg/100gm) under forest conditions, followed by Launaea cornuta (3.1 ± 0.1mg/100gm) under...
ABSTRACT The attainment of green economy and low carbon climate resilient development in Kenya may be hindered by competing human interest on forests and other natural resources. Eastern Mau forest has experienced anthropogenic disturbance through encroachment and forest fires; that situation prompted the deployment of heterogeneous forest management. This study aimed at comparing the soil carbon stocks and soil CO2 effluxes in different forest management regimes on as well as how soil tempe...
ABSTRACT Climate change is among the great challenges facing pastoralistse specially milk producing pastoralists in Tanzania. The main objective of this study was to assess the climate change effect on grazing land and quantity of milk produced by pastoralist in Mvomero District. Specifically, the study aimed at determining rainfall and temperature trends of Mvomero District over the past 30 years and their consequence on pasture resources and the quantity of milk produced by pastoralists. A...
ABSTRACT The main theme of this study was to carry out a research on “organizational constraints on poverty alleviation programmes in Enugu State from 1999-2009”. In view of this, the study was carried out to address the following questions, namely: what are the bureaucratic obstacles involved in the organizations of poverty alleviation programmes? What poverty alleviation programmes are carried out with contrasting socio-economic and organizational opportunities and constraints? And wha...
ABSTRACT The stock market is one of the most closely observed economic phenomenons in the world. Performance of a stock market is gauged on stock index, which also depends on performance of individual constituent stock. Therefore, stock inclusion in an index affects the stock, the index and the market at large. The argument that a stock’s inclusion in an index results in a share price increase was observed quite a long time ago in developed stock market index. However in frontier markets, e...
ABSTRACT A study was conducted to evaluate housefly maggots (HFM) and earthworms (EW) as protein sources in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus diets. HFM and EWM were raised in three different culturing substrates. Cow manure, fermented maize bran and chicken manure were used to culture HFM while cow manure, rabbit manure and chicken manure were used for culturing EW. Yields of HFM and EW from chicken and cow manure respectively were significantly higher (P
ABSTRACT This study investigated the low participation of male spouses in mothers’ utilisation of antenatal care, as a gender role, which is rare in many African communities. The study was guided by the following specific objectives: to determine the level of male spouse participation in mothers’ utilisation of antenatal care; to assess the influence of male spouse participation in mothers’ utilisation of antenatal care, Kenya; to identify the challenges associated with male spouse part...