University of Zimbabwe Social Sciences Research: Recent submissions
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Review of impediments to women's representation and participation in university leadership
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2015-07)The paper is a review of literature on impediments to women's representation and participation in university leadership after the introduction of a number of gender sensitive policies. A number of measures have been put ... -
Celebrating 60 years of university expansion in Zimbabwe
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2015-07)In the spirit of celebrating Zimbabwe’s higher education and the inspiration coming from the University of Zimbabwe, the country's first university, which is currently enjoying 60 years of existence since its inception, ... -
Who feeds the children? Gender ideology and the practice of plot allocation in an irrigation scheme
(Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1996)The shortage of land in rural areas, which is a consequence of historical circumstances (Ranger, 1985, Moyo, 1986) and the low rainfall in the regions where the majority of communal area people live, means that irrigated ... -
Institutions in natural resource management: a review of Zimbabwean experiences
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2004)The paper discusses processes of natural resources management in Zimbabwe. It reveals that management of natural resources is an activity that communities engage in as part of their daily lives. Natural resource management ... -
Leadership and accountability: lessons from African traditions
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1998)To clear my mind on what leadership and accountability mean, I first consulted the dictionary. I looked up the word ‘leadership’ then ‘accountability’. I then put myself in the position of leadership and asked myself the ... -
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The rising demand for higher education: the case of Women's University in Africa
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2015-07)Higher education worldwide is undergoing a continuous process of transformation and differentiation as new challenges emerge in the macro socio-economic and political environment. Not only have existing institutions expanded ... -
The water acts in the Nyachowa catchment area
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1996)This chapter deals with a catchment area in Mutare district: that of the Nyachowa river and its tributaries.2 The catchment area is made up of lands belonging to Shigodora commercial farm and Zimunya communal area. Our ... -
Regional crop production instability in Zambia and its implications for food security
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)This paper reports an attempt to measure crop production instability in Zambia at the regional or provincial levels. The objectives of this paper are: ° to measure crop production instability in Zambia’s nine regions/provinces ... -
Malawi: food marketing liberalisation and household food security: preliminary results from baseline surveys
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)The marketing of food crops, typically produced by smallholder farmers, was liberalised in 1987 in response to: ° rising transportation and other costs and falling commodity prices on the world market; and, ° structural ... -
Prospects for increasing household food security and income through increased crop productivity and diversification in low rainfall areas of Zimbabwe
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)The data for this paper were obtained from surveys undertaken in Mutoko/Mudzi and Buhcra communal areas in 1987-88 and 1988-89 as part of the research on household food security in low rainfall areas of Zimbabwe. Current ... -
Agricultural research priority-setting in Southern Africa: nutrition and household food security issues
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)The objective of this chapter is to discuss how nutrition and household food security objectives can be incorporated into the research programmes of national agricultural research systems (NARS). Part II presents an overview ... -
Traders’ perceptions of constraints on informal grain marketing in Zimbabwe: implications for household food security and needed research
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)Observers of Zimbabwean agriculture often express astonishment at the absence of informal grain markets in the rural areas.2 Hypotheses abound as to the reasons for this: colonial suppression of local entrepreneurship over ... -
Do underdeveloped rural grain markets constrain cash crop production in Zimbabwe? Evidence from Zimbabwe
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)This paper focuses on how production of high-valued cash crops may be constrained by marketing problems in the grain sub-sector. The analysis finds that the higher financial returns to oilseeds as compared with marketed ... -
Conservation policy and the campfire programme in Zimbabwe
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1997-03)Over the past few decades the term "conservancy" has gained increasing usage in Southern Africa and elsewhere. In Zimbabwe the term ha© generally been applied to wildlife and habitat management units on private land and ... -
The human factor and structural adjustment programmes
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)The intention of structural adjustment programmes, therefore, is to dominate the economic policies of developing nations as well as their social sectors. There is, therefore, strong Western influence of the education systems ... -
The process of strategic research design for the Centre for Applied Social Sciences in the University of Zimbabwe: opportunities and obstacles
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2007)The Centre for Applied Social Sciences has a vision to become a pre-eminent Research unit in Zimbabwe. Southern .Africa, and the world. It is a unit that wishes to pursue policy relevant research and teaching programmes ... -
Liberating Africa's future generations from the myth of redemptive violence through peace education
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2015-11)This paper explores how Africa's future generations can be liberated from the myth of redemptive violence through peace education. It critiques the myth perpetuated through Hollywood movies that violence redeems and brings ... -
Blueprint for developing professional human resources for the agricultural sector in SADCC
(UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1991)The ability to attain national and household food security rests w'ilh the agricultural sector which employs 70-80 percent of the total labour force of the SADCC region and contributes some 35 percent of the region’s Gross ... -
African philosophy and human factor development
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)African countries, though independent, cannot develop as they see fit as long as they continue to function as clients of development organizations and social institutions which have their own economic and political agendas. ...
