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Since its reported presence in 2016, the Fall Armyworm (FAW) has caused major damage to a number of plant species including maize which is a staple food for most African countries. Their presence in Africa pauses a challenge to the food security in many countries contributing to the already...

The prevalence of overloading, which is exceeding the maximum load weight, on public transport especially buses in Zambia is very rampant. This is attributed mainly to the fact that there is currently no system to measure and monitor load weight particularly at bus stations apart from few...

Issues of food security, post-harvest losses, lack of a national farmer database and proper grain inventory system have plagued the Ministry of Agriculture for years. The lack of requisite tools has made the management of the sector a difficult task. This has seen an increase in the number of...

Cassava is one of the alternative crops to Zambia’s staple crop maize. Unlike maize, cassava is drought resistant; maize has adversely been affected by drought. Unfortunately cassava has been ravaged by the African cassava mosaic virus for over one hundred years. It causes cassava mosaic disease...

Zambia‟s Food Reserve Agency was established by the Food Reserve Act of 1995. This act has since been updated in 2005 in order to incorporate the agency as a parastatal with the mandate to establish a national strategic food reserve. The agency is tasked with ensuring food security by being a...

Recommender systems have become increasingly popular in recent years, and are utilized in a variety of areas including movies, music, news, products, research articles, search queries, social tags, and products in general they are designed to automatically generate personalized suggestions of...

Digital financial services (DFS) have become pivotal for the low income people and poor communities because they can be rolled out easily as opposed to commercial banks that need brick and mortar. Zambia has a number of DFS like Zoona which are serving low income people and poor communities....

National examinations are standardized and centrally set tests that are administered to learners of the same grade within a particular country’s system of education. Technological advances and the search for efficiency have catalyzed recently a migration from paper-and-pencil based way of doing...

National examinations are standardized and centrally set tests that are administered to learners of the same grade within a particular country’s system of education. Technological advances and the search for efficiency have catalyzed recently a migration from paper-and-pencil based way of doing...

Property tax is a means of raising the much-needed revenue for local authorities in Zambia. However, the local authorities are faced with problems of identifying and capturing properties that qualify for property tax. This has resulted in them having a significant number of properties that are...