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Public transport is important for the well-being of any country in the world. Having a well planned and efficiently managed transportation system brings many benefits to the people. Public transport is adversely affected by rising incomes, urban sprawl, and undeveloped road systems,...

This study on sustainable household practices for transforming environmental concerns into environmental solutions in informal settlements was conducted in Kanyama Ward 10, Zones 98 and 100, Lusaka District. The study identified household practices among residents that could contribute to enhance...

Power relations are often studied in agricultural value chains because the different ways in which the participants in the value chain interact depends to a large extent on the forms of power present. Literature has shown that power relations among actors in agricultural value chains determine...

The dominant practices of water governance and settlement interventions in the cities of the global South are still rooted in the paradigms of global North resulting in increasing problems of poverty, informality, inequality and socio-spatial disintegration. The dominant interventions fail to...

This study sought to investigate access to and control over agricultural income and labour in smallholder farming households in Chipata district, Zambia. The objectives were to investigate the agricultural practices employed by smallholder farming households in Msandire and Mkanda areas of...

The governance philosophies of the UNIP and MMD governments were very different. These were expected to drastically influence economic performance and livelihoods. The study was undertaken to compare how agricultural crop production among smallholder farmers changed in time and space. The main...

The purpose of the study was to carry out an appraisal of the management of household waste in the city of Chipata. The study was based on the following objectives, to: (i) characterise household waste in Chipata city, in terms of composition, volume, recyclability and reusability, and (ii)...

This study establishes the asymptotic consistency of the James-Stein shrinkage estimator (JSSE) ˆ!⇤ n of some parameter ✓, which is obtained by shrinking a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) ˆ✓n. Our shrinking strategy involves creating a subspace to shrink to by partitioning the parameter space...

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...

The study assessed the change of land use in Livingstone and the implications it has had on urban planning from 2009-2015. Simple random sampling was used to select 50 out of 120 property owners who had changed use. A questionnaire was used to obtain information. A total number of 5 key...