Investing in High-technologies for a sustainable and efficient growth in the Sub-Saharan African countries by Elhadji Massata Diakhate E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This paper discusses the benefits for the Sub-Saharan African countries to invest in high-technologies as a more efficient long-term growth strategy. This type of investment can produce much more effective results than investing in the traditional sectors like agriculture. This paper is organized in four main parts. The f...
A dominant and current assumption is that, if Africa is to develop, it should incorporate ICT strategies such as e-commerce, e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-gender, e-agriculture, e-commerce as part of its development strategies. Accordingly, ICT has become an essential global resource in Kenyan development. However, Kenya is experiencing digital gap in terms of affordably, accessibility and usage. As such, computers have been donated from global North to South to fill this gap. T...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Rwamagana district in Rwanda. It was carried out on the challenges of sustainability of coffee projects in Rwanda using a case study of coffee washing stations in Rwamagana. The main objectives of the study were to examine the contributions of coffee washing stations in promotion of sustainable development of coffee industry, to establish the challenges of sustaining coffee washing stations and to identify the strategies being adopted to enhance the susta...
Abstract: It is conspicuous that the mainstream financial system in the EU is transforming into a sustainable financial system by a supra/national policy and institutional framework for meeting the goals of SDGs and the targets of the Paris Agreement for climate change together with Nationally Determined Contribution. However, Botswana or Sri Lanka has no such framework. Hence, a need of the hour has arisen to evaluate the sustainable finance policies in Botswana, Sri Lanka, together with t...
Overtime, land values have continued to diminish due to unsustainable land management practices engaged by thefarmers. This study evaluated the econometric analysis of agricultural land values in Imo State, Nigeria. Multi-stagerandom sampling technique was used to select 75 farmers for the study. Information on the objectives of this studywas elicited from the sampled respondents through a well structured questionnaire and interview schedule. Data wereanalyzed using descriptive statistical to...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION DEDICATION ii APPROVAL iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv LIST OF ACRONYMS xi CHAPTER ONE 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 1.0 Introductions 1 1.2 Background of the study 2 1.3 PROBLEM STATEMENT 3 1.4 GENERAL OBJECTIVE 3 1.5 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 4 1.6 Research questions 4 1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 4 CHAPTER TWO 6 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.0 Literature Review 6 2.1 Climate Change in Perspective 6 2.2 Adaptation strategies towards the impacts of climate change 6 2.3 Agriculture and food secur...
Abstract Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies help guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security by increasing farmers’ resilience to climate change. Agroforestry has been vouched for as one of the best CSAs because it provides ecosystem services such as water quality enhancement and prevents land degradation. This study sought to establish and document the adoption of agroforestry as a CSA practice a...
ABSTRACT Food security has remained a very big challenge in many rural areas in Zimbabwe. Many households in the country‟s rural areas have remained impoverished in terms of food security. Maize being a strategic grain crop for food security and livelihood purposes for the nation has remained low in production amongst smallholder farmers in the country. The government of Zimbabwe has realized the importance of maize production and implemented the input support programme to boost agricultura...
ABSTRACT Integrated aquaculture is the concurrent production of fish and other agricultural activities, with the main objective of optimizing the productivity of water, land and the associated resources (Gomez 201 l).The basic principle of integrating aquaculture with agriculture is to ensure maximum on-farm resource-use and productivity. Thus the system is knowledge-intensive, and a holistic approach that integrates numerous component and technologies within systems management (Jahan et. al....
ABSTRACT An assessment of the sustainability of food crop production in the fadamas of southern guinea savanna of Niger State, Nigeria was carried out within the framework of small-scale farming households utilizing fadama for the cultivation of food crops. The study identified the pattern of land use and management, estimated technical efficiency, identified determinants of technical inefficiency and determined productivity and profitability of food crop production in the fadama. It also de...
Abstract The unit-based sustainability assessment tool (USAT) was administered at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya, between January and March 2012. The assessment focused on establishing to what extent the University integrated sustainability concerns into its core functions of teaching, research and community engagement. Using a unit-based assessment tool allowed for ‘building the picture’ of the whole university, as well as concentrating on specific un...
ABSTRACT The introduction of microfinance banks in Nigeria is the inability of Nigerian Deposit Money Banks to provide sufficient financial service to the rural poor. Microfinance banks have taken up the challenges of the gap created by the Nigerian Deposit Money Banks. Microfinance banks can be seen as an economic growth method intended to advantage the low income part of a given country like Nigeria, both rural poor and urban poor. The objective of this study is to determine the impac...
ABSTRACTIn this abstract the effect of loan recovery on the performance of Nigeria agricultural cooperative and rural development bank (NARCRDB) is the topic and also the objective of the study includes how the scale farmers dwelled with Nigerian agricultural and rural development bank and also to know how the farmers finance their farming. More also, the objective of the study touches the loan given to the farmers is adequate or not. In conclusion, non recovery of agriculture loan are caused...
Abstract: One health’ (OH) is a cross-sectoral approach that addresses human, plant, animal, and environmental health problems. The initiative stems from recognition of the convoluted linkages among global health risks and the need for coherent multipronged countermeasures. For agriculture, environmental degradation and biodiversity depletion wrought by heavy reliance on inorganic inputs to meet the needs of the ever-growing human population, are a matter of societal concern. Agroecologica...
ABSTRACTMost developing nations define industrialization as a central objective of their economic policy they see; industrialization goes with agricultural progress as an integral part of growth and structural change. Some economist and analysts are of the view that industrialization plays a major role in the economic growth and development of any nation.Thus in this research work, effort is made to assess the impact of industrialization on economic growth of Nigeria. Before colonial rule in ...