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This report is an account of the author's personal experiences and investigations with some of the Executive Board members of Nyemba Ward Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited (NWMCSL) (Appendix 1) and sixteen small-scale female farmer members of the society (Appendix 2). The author set out...

The main purpose of the study was to review factors which influence learner participation in University extension education. The specific objectives were to determine factors that encouraged learner participation in University extension education; to determine whether or not University education...

This study focused on the training of agricultural extension workers in Zambia and its congruence both with the role and performance expectations of the Department of Agriculture for its frontline workers as well as their actual field performance. The research approach was a multi-method...

The Zambian government through the fertilizer support programme (FSP) aimed at reducing poverty among small-scale farmers. The programme was introduced in 2002 with an initial 50% subsidy later increased to 60% by 2007 and during 2008-2009 farming season it was at 75%. The study aimed at...

The purpose of this study was to assess the response of farmers in the Lwiimba Resettlement Scheme to the introduction of three agroforestry technologies namely improved fallow, contour vegetation bands and fodder banks. The study involved a field survey in which all the 55 farming households...

Market participations of African livestock-keepers is one subject that has generated.a lot of interest and controversy among authors. This study, which investigates the constraints on market participation^ of the Sukuma livestock-keepers during the British colonial period, largely emanates from...

The study tested the hypotheses that students' attitudes toward careers in agricultural production were related to (i) attitudes toward agricultural science as a school subject; (ii) curricular inclusion of agricultural science; (iii) urban / rural environmental location of schools; (iv)...

This dissertation reconstructs a history of hunger in the Gwembe Valley Chieftaincy of Mweemba. It covers the period between 19O5 and 1987. Since 1991 - 92, the period in which the study was being worked on, was a drought and hunger year a postscript was written to append to the main text.The...

The study evaluates the public agricultural extension service delivery in Zambia with respect to the participation of smallholder farmers. The study describes the extension service implementation, establishes the smallholder farmers’ level of access to extension and finds out the factors that...