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Most sub-Saharan African cities face a lack of cogent integration and consideration of food systems (FS) in spatial planning. This has exacerbated the ongoing food insecurity in urban regions. This exigent situation calls for the integration of food systems into spatial planning. In Zambia, the...

In a world where there is constant data generation and processing, the need for an integrated system cannot be overemphasized. The systems that enable the storage of large amounts of spatial data and available to multiple users in real time. However, studies have shown that standalone desktop...

Local Economic Development (LED) has been identified as a key strategy to alleviating poverty and promoting economic growth of urban areas through Local Government in Zambia. Formulation and implementation of strategies requires capacity of councils in terms of their technical, fiscal and human...

The creation of new districts in Zambia has in the recent past been given more attention following the implementation of the decentralisation by a devolution model in order to take public services closer to the people. The study sought to evaluate the capacity of the new Mwansabombwe Town Council...

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...

Modern technologies have made it possible for amateur news applications and related journalistic applications (blogs, social networks, collaborative publishing) to capture news faster and in larger amounts than any other news systems. These technologies (e.g. smart phones) can take pictures,...

Luano national forest has come under a lot of pressure from people venturing into agriculture, charcoal production over exploitation of timber and encroachment after retrenchment from the mines. Lack of forest management has led to environmental degradation and hinders socio-economic...

Assessing and improving capacity for Chongwe District Council (CDC) has become more and more important as the Government through the decentralization policy transfers huge responsibilities in terms of planning, implementation of development plans and management of public services to local...

In the year 2000 the Zambian Ministry of Education, through its Curriculum Development Centre, published and implemented the New Zambian High School Geography Syllabus. This new syllabus was necessitated by the need to improve the quality of education at High School level as stipulated in the...

This study was prompted by the general research problem arising from a concern over the dismal performance of High school pupils in the mapwork component of the Zambian School Certificate Geography paper 1 (2218/1). This problem was against the background of the paucity of knowledge in this area...