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In Zambia, many smallholder farmers achieve household food security through the production of maize ‘zea mays’. During the years of maize failure due to drought, there is need for other crops to enhance food security like Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato. Since the 2010/2011 farming season, the Orange...

Poor soil fertility management practices coupled with climate variability are among factors negatively impacting crop productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Promotion of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices among farmers has been one of the measures taken to improve and maintain crop...

The earth’s climate system has changed due to natural phenomena and anthropogenic activities resulting into increased atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gasses thus impacting negatively on agricultural production and food security. Climate change and climate variability is likely to be the...

The study is an investigation of institutional arrangements for supply of water and sanitation services in Chinsali Urban, Zambia. The study aimed at assessing the institutional arrangements for supply of water and sanitation services in Chinsali Urban in Muchinga Province. The objectives of the...

This study investigated groundwater contamination in a suburban area of George Compound located on the outskirts of the city of Lusaka in Zambia. The aim was to assess heavy metal contamination of groundwater and the local people’s awareness about the contamination in the study area. The...

This study investigated groundwater contamination in a suburban area of George Compound located on the outskirts of the city of Lusaka in Zambia. The aim was to assess heavy metal contamination of groundwater and the local people’s awareness about the contamination in the study area. The...

A healthy living environment depends on adequate sanitation. Worldwide, about 1.1 billion people still defecate in the open, leaving their faeces on the ground to contaminate the surrounding environment. Sinazongwe District is faced with the problem of low access to adequate sanitation and...

Kansanshi Foundation, a corporate social unit of Kansanshi Mining PLC in Solwezi has been supporting conservation agriculture (CA) among smallholder farmers in Chafukuma area since 2010 without any empirical evidence of CA benefits. This study assessed the effects of CA on soil fertility of...

The focus of agricultural development in Africa and Zambia in particular is on transforming the agricultural system from conventional to conservation agriculture (CA). This study examined the linkages between conservation agriculture narratives and environmental conservation in terms of forest...

The aim of this study was to examine the implications of the conversion of customary land tenure to leasehold tenure on rural livelihoods in Chibombo and Chongwe districts by drawing on a comparative approach. In particular, the study was conducted in three chiefdoms namely; Bunda Bunda and...