This study investigated the effect of community participation in education on the learning and teaching environment in selected high schools in Mongu District of the Western Province. The objectives of the study were to: find out the effect of community participation in education on learning...
Download PDF ↓HIV/AIDS has been acutely experienced in the rural areas of Zambia. In fact the effect of HIV/AIDS on elderly women has changed their role from being looked after to looking after others especially grandchildren, after their parents have died of HIV/AIDS.Therefore the epidemic has slowly but...
Download PDF ↓Two potato cultivars, ‘Norchip’ and ‘Russet Burbank’ were used to study the changes that occur in potato tubers during growing season and through storage. In addition, the post harvest effects of bruising, chemical treatment (CIPC) and CO2 build-up in storage bins on the quality of stored tubers...
Download PDF ↓A study was conducted to determine the effect of substrate pasteurization and sterilization on the yield of Pleurotus cornucopiae and Pleurotus sajor-caju, and on the suitability of sorghum, wheat and maize grains, and wooden sticks as mycelium carriers in spawn production. The Pleurotus species...
Download PDF ↓This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of using azolla in rice fields and to investigate the appropiate time and quantities of azolla to be incorporated. The trial was conducted at the University of Zambia Field Station as a pot experiment. Three different quantities of azolla...
Download PDF ↓The land tenure system of any given country has a long term impact on the development of the agricultural sector. Hence for developing countries like Zambia which wish to diversify their economies through the promotion of the sector, the land tenure system must be moulded in such a way as to be...
Download PDF ↓The effect of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) and rhizosphere pseudomonads on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri (Matuo and Sato) in Zambia was investigated. Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza was isolated from three soils obtained from Kasama area of...
Download PDF ↓The Decentralised Financial Management in Basic Schools was introduced in order to foster local participation to safeguard the principles of transparency, efficiency and effectiveness with which funds would be used. Hence, the purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the...
Download PDF ↓The Ministry of Education undertook a number of reforms in the 1990s due to the decline in literacy levels in basic schools; the basic school curriculum was changed. New methods of teaching were introduced as measures of intervention. Pedagogies like the New Breakthrough to Literacy (NBTL), Step...