Abstract: Climate change is causing the greatest environmental, social and economic threats across the globe. Its impact has been increasing especially on agricultural activities in developing countries. It depresses crop yields through temperature increase and reductions of precipitation. Climate change mainly affected low-income countries where their adaptive capacities are perceived to be low, due to weak institutional capacity, limited engagement in environmental and adaptation issues an...
ABSTRACT Despite concerted effort at improving the extension delivery in Ghana, the performance of the Front Line Staff of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s Extension Services has been lower than expected. It is expected that among others, appropriate training will enhance their performance. However it is not clear what the nature and content of such training should be. The study therefore was to find out whether the content of training provided to the extension workers affected their ...
Abstract A single server Markovian queuing system called the M/M/1 queuing system with two distinct customer types namely; the constraint customer type and the un-constraint customer type is studied. This model is that of a production system with heterogeneous customer structures devoid of a single customer in the intersection category group wise. Initially, relevant literature covering methodologies, analysis and results derived for single server production systems are reviewed and a gap ide...
ABSTRACT Transient over voltages have often been blamed for the malfunctioning of electrical power systems. This seminar paper is an overview which seeks to describe the state of the power system under transient condition. It also provides information on the rate of occurrence, on the wave shape, and on the energy associated with the transients, as a function of the location within the power system. Also, the basic principles of coordinated protection with specific experimental examples are e...
ABSTRACT Traditional approaches for understanding environmental governance — such as environmental policy analysis or natural resources management — do not adequately address the gamut of human–natural system interactions within the context of the complex biogeophysical cycles and processes of the planet. This is perhaps more so in the African regional context where the complex relationships between modern and traditional governance systems and global change dynamics are arguably more p...
ABSTRACT This project aimed at the design of a guest House Database Management System. A system to aid in the management and operation of a Guest House. Information systems which are not carefully designed basing on good security practices may lead to data loss, misplacement and redundancy. Method that were used to gather information about the current system include; interview, record review and questionnaire. It gives a detailed review ~of selected methods, instruments of data analysis and p...
ABSTRACT Marginal mixed farming households are prone to frequent drought and hardly meet their food intake requirements which make the under-five children more vulnerable to malnutrition. The purpose of this study was to establish the determinants of nutritional status of children aged 6-59 months in marginal mixed farming households in Ntugi location, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. A sample of 106 households was randomly selected for data collection. Structured questionnaires, key informa...
ABSTRACT Soil faces many threats throughout the world, deforestation for charcoal burning and brick making, overgrazing by livestock, and agricultural practices that fail to conserve soil are three main causes of accelerated soil loss. There has been a general trend of soil productivity decline on crop land in Musoma province. Soil degradation is one of major threats to agricultural development in the province and it has become the prob !em in many parts of the province. As the scenario lead...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the impact of the extension services of Green River Project (GRP) on fish farmers in Niger Delta, Nigeria. Specifically, it sought to ascertain fishery technologies received by GRP fish farmers; determine adoption of fish farming technologies by fish farmers; determine impact of extension services of GRP on socioeconomic condition of the fish farmers as at the year 2012; ascertain farmers’ perceived constraints to adoption of GRP fish farming technologies; asce...
TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENT iiDEDICATION iiiDECLARATION ivAPPROVAL vABSTRACT viChapter one 11.0 Introduction 11.1 Back ground of the study 11.2 Problem statement 21.3 Purpose of study 21.3.1 Specific objectives 21.4 Scope of the study 31.5 Justification of the study 31.6 Research questions 3Chapter two 4Literature review 42.0. Introduction 42.1 Definition of patient information system 42.2 History over patient information systems 52.4. Features of patient information systems 72.5 Format ...
ABSTRACT The coffee sector plays a significant role to Kenya‟s economy. The sector contributes to foreign exchange earnings, household incomes, employment and food security. The industry supports about 700,000 households comprising of 535 coffee cooperative societies for the development and marketing of coffee. A new concept in marketing all over the world has been the adoption of certification standards which are becoming increasingly popular in Kenya; currently there are about four cert...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the contribution of women small-scale farmers on rural household‟s poverty reduction. Specifically, the study aimed to get a better understanding on the roles, contributions and constraints of women smallscale farming in rural areas and their implications on poverty reduction and food security at household level. The study was undertaken in Dodoma Region, Tanzania, whereby Mpwapwa District with the predominantly small-scale subsistence agric...
Abstract: Even though usability testing of software applications has been studied for decades, little empirical researches have been conducted in Agriculture domain, especially in comparing the usability of none- immersive virtual reality and text based diagnosis expert systems for diagnosing cattle diseases. A quasi -experimental research was conducted in which 62 cattle farmers both commercial and subsistent used either a non-virtual reality based (System A) or a text-based (System B) expe...
Gas flaring is one of the major problems in the world. It consumes useful natural resources and produces harmful wastes, which have negative impacts on society. It is one of the most tedious energy and environmental problems facing the world today. It is a multi-billion dollar waste, a local environmentalcatastrophe and environmental problem which has persisted for decades. From the year 1996-2010, in Nigeria, 12,602,480.25 million ft 3 of natural gas was flared (NNPC). This is equivalent to ...
TABLE OF CONTENTDeclaration iiApproval iiiDedication ivAcknowledgements vList ofAbbreviations/Acronyms viList ofTables and Figures viiTABLE OF CONTENT viiiAbstract/Executive SummaryCHAPTER ONE:fNTRODUCTJON TO THE STUDY 21.0 Background information 21.1 Statement of the Problem 31.2 General objective 31.3 Specific objectives 41.4 Research question 41.5 Scope of the study 41.6 Justification of the study 4CHAPTER TWO:LITERATURE REVIEW 52.0 Introduction2.1 An interactive system 52.2 Online distrib...