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A study was conducted at Lilayi farm in a no-tillage crop production system. The objective of the study was to assess the efficacy of new herbicides in a no-tillage soybean cultivation system in Zambia. Eleven treatments were used in this study. These include four preemergence, five postemergence...

One striking feature which the Zambian constitution shares in common with other constitutions of Commonwealth Africa is the phenomenon of wideemergency powers which exist under the constitution and also under the various emergency or security statutes and regulations made thereunder. These laws...

Racial conflict in South Africa stems from whites' determination to perpetuate their monopoly of land and cheap labour resources, by means of political supremacy, and African opposition to this control. This African opposition stems from the common values which industrial and urban society has...

Scholars such as Hornby (1994), have proposed that the parents of disabled children go through a series of emotional adjustments which lead to the final state of acceptance of the child's condition. Based on Hornby's adaptation model, this study set out to establish the emotional adjustments made...

With a rapid pace of economic activities that had also brought along with them a series of fallouts and negative impacts, many mining communities in Zambia did not generally receive Environmental Education on the negative impacts of mining. Using Environmental Education to address negative...

Kamanga settlement is located about 14km east of Lusaka town. It is an upgraded settlement, meaning that it has been accorded legal status with basic services like water, schools and improved sanitation. This study investigated Environmental problems which were faced by residents of Kamanga...

Environmental education is vital to Environmental Conservation in order to reduce or stop environmental degradation which in most cases affects women severely. In view of the point that women have the responsibility of taking care of their household resources, degraded environments mean that...

This study was prompted by the desire to determine the extent to which the waterfowl cropping practice of the Lozi speaking people of western Zambia conserved waterfowl of the Upper Zambezi wetlands popularly called the Barotse plains. The study focused on investigating reasons for the practice...

Environmcntal education, considered to be a "blueprint for the future'" (Ryan & Ray, 1991, p. 7) emerged in the 1970s in recognition of the rapidly escalating deterioration of the environment. It is now a part of education around the world, as human damage to the environment has become a major...