University of Zimbabwe Social Sciences Research: Recent submissions
Now showing items 141-160 of 1958
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Introduction: "the elephant in the dark"
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) ; University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989)Attaining a full understanding the role of livestock in the economies of rural Africa remains one of the thornier problems confronting both researchers and development planners and practitioners. One of the reasons for ... -
Socio-economic data for livestock development: notes and observations from Zambia
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) ; University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989)Socio-economic data on livestock has been a neglected topic in rural development literature. Many interesting and relevant studies into nomadic and sedentary pastoral societies have been conducted across Africa, particularly ... -
Policy implications of household grain marketing and storage decisions in Zimbabwe
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)The emergence of the communal area farmer as an important provider of marketed surplus (Stanning, 1985; Rohrbach, 1986) has had a broad impact on the grain-marketing system at the national, regional, and household level. ... -
Grain trade, barter and triangular trade:proposed research and policy issues with specific reference to Zimbabwe's experience
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1989)This paper first reviews Zimbabwe’s experience in dealing with triangular transactions in grain trade. Second, it examines major issues in maize production, export, and stockholding policy. Finally, it looks at the domestic ... -
The personal is political: international politics, national politics and community participation
(School of Social Work (SSW), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993-02-22)Sustainable development, according through to the World Bank and other donor agencies, is only possible if the communities are involved, ie through popular participation. A similar theme emerges from the British ODA - aid ... -
Water-use efficiency on commercial wheat farms in Zimbabwe
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)Wheat is grown commercially in Zimbabwe as a fully-irrigated winter crop (May-September) in the highveld, middleveld and lowveld on medium-to-heavy textured soils. Approximately 75% of the commercial wheat farmers are ... -
Household, lineage groups and ecological dynamics issues for livestock research and development in Zimbabwe's communal lands
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) ; University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989)This paper covers a broad rsinge of issues relating to the socio-economic determinants of livestock production in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands (CLs). It is not comprehensive, but aims at picking up a number of important themes ... -
The IMF/World Bank reform package: an analysis
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1997)IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programmes have been widely criticised for their role in worsening the economies of the borrowing countries and deepening poverty among the borrowing country populations. It needs to ... -
Women, agriculture and social change in Southern Rhodesia, 1898-1934: with special reference to the Goromonzi District
(Department of History, University of Zimbabwe., 1986-05)Within eight years of the occupation of Southern Rhodesia, Africans in the Goromonzi District were seriously engaged in market production. Conveniently located in the environs of Salisbury and in the vicinity of several ... -
Realms of citizenship education: concepts and perspectives
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1991-06)Citizenship Education is a subject that bothers me and should do so to all conscientised Zimbabweans. For no nation that neglects Citizenship Education expects to endure long. In other more appropriate terms, no democracy ... -
Preliminary results of the second demographic survey of the African populations of Southern Rhodesia, part 4
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1955-09)The second sample survey of the African population was designed to cover the whole territory in two years. For various reasons arising from movements of population, changes in district boundaries, illness of field officers, ... -
The economics of expanding commercial wheat production in Zimbabwe
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)This paper analyses data collected during a 1986 survey of 41 commercial wheat farmers in examining some of the issues associated with the policy objective of increasing wheat production in Zimbabwe. -
Ideology, economics and social control of women in Southern Rhodesia, 1910- 1939
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Some nutrition problems in Central Africa
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1956-02)Every medical practitioner is trained in the science of nutrition, especially in its application to the feeding of mothers and infants and the treatment and prevention of various diseases. The subject is fundamentally the ... -
Major issues in designing a research programme on household food insecurity
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)Over the past decade, the economies in Southern African have experienced difficulties in meeting the food needs of their population. The reasons for household food insecurity include exogenous factors such as drought, high ... -
Rubella rheumatism
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The role of the government of Botswana in increasing rural and urban access to food
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)Botswana’s food and agricultural problems are fully recognized by the government and are considered in its national economic priority agenda. In the November 1985 National Food Strategy paper, the state identified the ... -
Policy and programmes to alleviate urban poverty: approaches and the Mozambican experience
(School of Social Work (SSW), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993-02-22)The twelve cities of Mozambique have a total population of three million. It is estimated that half of this population (200,000 households) are absolutely poor. The poverty line which is used to determine absolute poverty ... -
The effect of ox sharing arrangements on the supply and use of draught animals in the communal areas of Zimbabwe- preliminary findings
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989)Livestock, particularly cattle, form an important link in peasant farming systems through the provision of inputs for crop production. Sixty percent of the national cattle herd is found in the communal areas (Smith 1988) ... -
SADCC's Food Security Programme: food processing and preservation
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)The Post-Production Food Industry Advisory Unit (PFIAU) was set up in 1984 to spearhead the implementation of projects under the SADCC Food Security Programme on food storage, processing, and preservation. In terms of the ...
