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Mobile money is widely renowned for its positive contribution to financial inclusion and improvements in welfare of users. Yet, little is known about how mobile money contributes to financial inclusion and improved livelihoods of mobile money agents as individual users and key players in...

The worldwide problems associated with the construction industry include low productivity, poor safety, inferior working conditions, lack of adequate financing, and insufficient quality. Widespread problems in the construction industry in most developing countries correspondingly include project...

The area of northeastern Zambia, between Chama and Lundazi towns, is underlain by rocks belonging to the Irumide Fold Belt, a Mesoproterozoic orogenic belt whose geology is dominated by biotite gneisses, which often show incipient migmatisation, that belong to the Kampemba Group. Less common...

Comparatively, Zambian smallholder cassava productivity is low. Zambian farmers produce 6 ton ha-1 , compared to 20–25 ton ha-1 in Zambia. Therefore, understanding smallholder farmers' poor yields is necessary to develop cassava cropping systems for yield intensification. In this study, field...

The rapid adoption of electronic channels for the delivery of services by various service providers compels the consumers of these services to adapt. For one to be granted access to e-services, one must surrender part of their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) hence making their personal...

The study was inspired by the necessity to advance professional learning for primary school teachers that might support them to proficiently teach the mathematics topic of number bases. This was after a base line study conducted at National In-Service Teachers College (NISTCOL) in 2014 by the...

Avian influenza and Newcastle disease are respiratory and often fatal diseases of birds caused by avian influenza virus (AIV) and Newcastle disease virus (NDV), respectively. They are zoonotic diseases that affect a wide range of avian species and cause substantial economic losses. Moreover, the...

The study analysed the relationship between public expenditure at the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA). The focus was on ECZ expenditure shifts in election and non-election years and their impact on service delivery components in agriculture. The question...

This study compared learners’ initial reading achievements in letter knowledge, phonics and decoding skills on their entry and at the end of Grade One in Nyanja language of Lusaka and Katete districts. Speakers and non-speakers of the language of instruction in multilingual classes vis-à-vis...

Mine tailings are a significant source of heavy metal contamination for soils in their proximity. In Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, historical and current mining operations have resulted in large outputs of tailings. Food crops grown on contaminated soils may be a conduit for transfer of heavy...