ABSTRACT This study is/was an assessment of community-based natural resource management in rural areas and how natural resources enhance community livelihoods in reducing poverty against the backdrop of resource depletion. The study adopted a trans-disciplinary approach to research aimed at gathering the necessary information on natural resource management. Data collection techniques such as review of relevant literature, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, formal institutional int...
ABSTRACT Willingness to pay is the largest sum of money an individual is agreeable to pay for a product or service. In other words, it is the maximum sum a consumer is willing to pay to acquire some good or service, or the maximum sum an individual is willing to pay to avoid a prospective loss (Wise Geek 2014). In general, willingness to pay (WTP) is a reflection of the maximum amount a consumer thinks a product or service is worth. It is considered when developing and asking price for produc...
The research was principally descriptive involving both qualitative and quantitative techniques of data analysis. Stratified random sampling techniques were also used to select respondents for the study and total of130 respondents participated in the study. The main instruments for data collection were questionnaires, focused group discussions and faceto-face interviews were conducted. Data collected using questionnaires and a structured interview guide was analyzed using frequency counts in ...
ABSTRACT ARKFor was among nine piloted REDD+ Project aimed at addressing the challenges of climate change and poverty reduction. The initiative intended to reduce significantly deforestation and forests degradation by enhancing alternative livelihood activities. The activities aimed at contributing livelihoods improvement to rural forest dependent communities. However, if the initiative is not well implemented would affect rural livelihood. This study was carried out to assess the socio econo...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of The Zimbabwean Fast Track Land Reform in promoting agriculture development to mitigate poverty. The study targets the beneficiaries to establish the relationship between land reform programme and agriculture production and it is an assessment of how the beneficiaries of Insiza district have performed in terms of agriculture production after the implementation of the policy. The theoretical framework suggests the land of a nation is for the peopl...
ABSTRACT This study, has assessed the sustainability of income generating groups of widows and PLWA in income poverty reduction in Tanzania, whereby the study was carried out in rural settings of Dodoma Municipality. The study aimed specifically to assess the contribution of income generating groups in household income, strategies that were used to sustain income generating groups and to identify income generating activities that were performed by the groups. Data were collected from a sampl...
ABSTRACT This thesis reports the effects of political insurgency on performance of primary schools in Lira district. The results of the study are reported in chapter four. This study was guided by four independent variables on political instability. These included; indiscipline, poverty, stree children and learning materials on academic performance. The study was set to response to four research questions as given below; How does indiscipline affect academic performance in Lira district...
Abstract: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are important actors in complementing the role of the state in promoting human development. The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), founded in Britain in 1945, as a consequence of Second World War, aimed at reducing human suffering. Since then, the activities of Oxfam have expanded to over 90 states with the aim of enhancing sustainable livelihoods and improving basic social services (Oxfam. 2020). High poverty levels, poor health servi...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the assessment of the Challenges Facing Local Government Authorities in Collecting Property Tax for Service Delivery Improvement in Mpwapwa District Council – Dodoma. It was guided by the following specific objectives:-to examine the extent of collection of property tax in Mpwapwa district council, to identify the proportion of collected revenue spent in service delivery related with improving the value of properties in the study area and to examine challenges...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to analysis the arterial road network and commercial property values in Ikeja, Nigeria. This was with a view to conducting detailed investigation into the relationship between arterial road network in the presence or absence of other variables and commercial property values in the city. In attaining the stated aim and objectives of the study, two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The hypotheses are that there is no significant relationship betwee...
ABSTRACT Media sell both products and worldviews and in contemporary times, films have become a standard target to vend such products and worldviews. Some scholars have argued that media texts have ideological contents embedded in them for the reason that these media texts articulate either overtly or covertly the maker's attitudes, beliefs, political and sociocultural stances. This study through the lens of postcolonial theory, stereotype theory and theory of hegemony, and a qualitative con...
INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In Nigeria, Micro financing is not a new phenomenon as evidenced by such cultural economic activities which were practiced to provide funds for producers in the rural communities. The earliest evidence of financial institutions in Africa dates to the 16th century: a rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAS) among the Yoruban. As a form of social capital and also as a financial self-help groups (SHGs) was transported during the slave trade to the C...
Abstract: The issue of poverty and hunger continues to be a great challenge in the world. The millennium development goals was a framework that was implemented for the purpose of assisting the world towards its endeavors of halving poverty and hunger. The implementation of MDGs in Kenya began in 2002.Critiques have argued that the time set to achieve the MDGs in Africa was unfair given the fact that most African countries were in extreme poverty following the implementation of the IMF and Wo...
ABSTRACT In several quarters, there have been allegation making round, that state governments use their state Broadcast media as propaganda machinery. The focus is to investigate such allegation using Rivers State Broadcasting Service (RSBS) radio/TV as a case study. The study was based on critical theory by staurt Hall. The theory views the means by which the “haves of society gain the willing support of the “have nots†to maintain the status quo. The study uses empirical met...
Abstract: Ensuring food security is a global significant challenge despite struggles to increase agricultural productivity, food distribution and identify appropriate policy interventions to cub food shortage. The recent recurrent incidences of food deficit in Kenya have placed the nation among the 20 most food insecure countries in the world. Food insecurity in the country is a prevalent issue since approximately 84% the country’s landmass is covered by arid and semi-arid land. Achieving ...