University of Zimbabwe Social Sciences Research: Recent submissions

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    • Fishing regulations and co-managerial arrangements: examples from Lake Kariba 

      Malasha, Isaac (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2002-03)
      Tire purpose of this paper is to explore the manner in which fishing regulations in Zambia and Zimbabwe emerged. It show's that although the fishing regulations were aimed at protecting the sustainability of fisheries from ...

    • Bani irrigation: an alternative water use 

      Andreinia, Marc (Irrigation Perfomance In Zimbabwe Project (IPZP), University of Zimbabwe, (UZ), 1994)
      In Zimbabwe bani irrigation is a largely unacknowledged small-holder irrigation type. "Banis" (swamps) may be described as any flat, grass- covered depression at the head of streams within the tropics which lacks a definite ...

    • Water delivery perfomance 

      Makadho, Johannes (Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1994)
      Understanding and measuring performance is fundamental to the development of methodologies which can be used by researchers and by irrigation managers to find answers to specific problems. Work is needed in performance ...

    • Whose water? Interlocking relations and struggles over water in Nyamaropa irrigation scheme 

      Magadlela, Dumisani (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1996)
      This chapter offers a critical look at different farmer perceptions of water in Nyamaropa irrigation and dryland farming areas, and centres on the parts played, and strategies employed by different parties and leaders in ...

    • The socioeconomic base of communities in the National Resources Management Project (NRMP Area) 

      Hawkes, Professor Roland K.; Hawkes, Roland K. (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1994-07-02)
      This report presents and discusses some of the socio-economic information collected in the 1991 survey of households done by the Centre for the Natural Resources Management Programme. The NRMP involves areas in the ...

    • Rezoned for business: how eco-tourism unlocked black farmland in Eastern Zimbabwe 

      McDermott Hughes, David (Department of Economic History; University of Zimbabwe, 2002-09-13)
      Eco-tourism is undermining black smallholders' entitlement to land in Zimbabwe. In th 1890s, British administrators restrained whites from alienating the whole of the countn by demarcating native reserves. In terms of this ...

    • The release of the muses: an inaugural lecture given in the University of Rhodesia 

      Harrison, Albert (University College of Rhodesia (now UZ), 1973)
      In a study of the function of the academic library, specifically, the university library, the historical method is particularly suitable. For, according to the renowned English historian, Stephen Potter: History is a ...

    • Development of ethical phytomedicines for Togo, West Africa 

      Gbeassor, M.A.; Koumaglo, H.K.; Awang, D.V.C.; Durst, T.; MacKinnon, S.; Arnason, J.T. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1996-02-25)
      The use of traditional remedies based on plant, animal and mineral extracts is a common practice in West African countries, especially in the rural areas where approximately 70-80% of the population lives. In Togo for ...

    • Production of traditional medicine: preparations accepted as medicines in Mali 

      Diallo, D.; Paulsen, B.S.; Hvemm, B. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1996)
      Mali is a West African country without a coastline. Its sanitary situation is characterized by the predominance of parasitic illnesses, infections and nutritional diseases together with an insufficiency of qualified health ...

    • Voices from the village: local perspectives on the empowerment of women through CBNRM in Tsholotsho District, Zimbabwe 

      Dube, Julia; Maphosa, Regina; Mlotshwa, Gladys (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1998-09)
      Tsholotsho has 20 wards, 20 Councillors composed of one woman, one white man and 18 black men. The woman is the Councillor for Ward 7, which is the focus of the paper. The Ward has a population of 8 191 with 650 San Khois ...

    • Agricultural finance: 1990-2004 

      Zumbika, Naison (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 2006)
      The first and second agricultural revolutions in Zimbabwe were made possible by a vibrant agricultural financing sector (Chimedza, 1994). In chapter 14, Chimedza reviewed the historical aspects of agricultural financing. ...

    • Green harvest: the outgrower tea leaf collection system in the Honde Valley, Zimbabwe 

      Mtisi, J.P. (Department of Economic History; University of Zimbabwe, 2002-09-13)
      Commercial tea production in Zimbabwe was started in the 1920s in Chipinge District by Tanganda Tea Company which, for 30 years or so, was the only tea company in the country till it was joined by other companies, South ...

    • Training for community development 

      Jordan, TL (Faculty of Education (University College of Rhodesia), 1962-08)
      Community development has become almost as popular a subject of international discussion as the problems of Africa. It is the new technique which is taking the under-developed (better known as the developing) areas of the ...

    • Land reform and gender in Zimbabwe 

      Mgugu, Abby; Chimonyo, Rindayi (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare,, 2004)
      The issue of land and gender has not been of interest to policy makers until recently. This was due to the fact that in Africa and even in Victorian Europe land was considered a male domain and thus its implications on ...

    • “Tame game, not wildest Africa”: small-scale game ranching in the context of land reform in Zimbabwe 

      Kramer, Eira (Department of Economic History, University of Zimbabwe, 2002-09-13)
      This paper will examine land use patterns in the Mashonaland districts in the postcolonial er focusing on the emergence of small game parks. It will look at the ways in which land in this region has been re-zoned since the ...

    • Farmer-initiated irrigation furrows: observations from the eastern highlands 

      Bolding, Alex; Manzungu, Emmanuel; van der Zaag, Pieter (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1996)
      Important for the contemporary debate in relation to irrigation development in Zimbabwe is the realisation that during colonial times and after independence, informal irrigation furrows were constructed and operated by ...

    • Conflict management dillemas in the Umvumvumvu catchment, Eastern Zimbabwe 

      Manzungu, Emmmanuel (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1997-08)
      This paper briefly explores conflict management dilemmas In water allocation posed by the absence of effective conflict resolution mechanisms in the Umvumvumyu catchment in eastern part of Zimbabwe. Table 1 shows the main ...

    • Prevalence and the correlates of post-natal depression in an urban high density suburb of Harare 

      January, J.; Chivanhu, H.; Chiwara, J.; Denga, T.; Dera, K.; Dube, T.; Chikwasha, V.; Chikwanha, T.M. (Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 2015-01)
      Postnatal depression is a common complication of childbearing with a prevalence of 33% in Zimbabwe. Thus Zimbabwe has one of the highest prevalence of postnatal depression in the world and the situation is further compounded ...

    • Programmed learning in Central African contexts 

      Hawkridge, D.G. (Faculty of Education (University College of Rhodesia), 1966-10-15)
      The general history of the development of the programmed learning movement does not need to be rehearsed in full in a publication of this nature. The pioneering work of Sidney L. Pressey in the 1920's drew attention to the ...

    • Reality of stakeholder participation in water resource management: the case of the Mazowe Catchment Pilot Protect 

      Dougherty, Tryphena (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1997-07)
      The Mazowe Catchment, particularly the upper portion, has led the national movement towards stakeholder participation in water resources for over a decade. In response to water scarcity and related conflict, the first River ...