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Strategies For Coping With Food Deficits In Rural Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1989-12)
The resourcefulness of African smallholders in the face of recurrent food deficits is often overlooked by professionals and officials concerned with food security. Food scarcity has provoked a wide range of interventions ...
Transport And Marketing Of Horticultural Crops By Communal Farmers Into Harare
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1989-12)
A study was initiated in 1987 with the aim of establishing the major characteristics of the transport and marketing systems for horticultural crops into Harare. Emphasis was placed on identifying the constraints in the ...
A Village School and Community Development in a Rhodesian Tribal Trust Land.
(UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia), 1970-01)
This article presents and analyses a case history collected from one community in a Rhodesian tribal trust land, with special reference to the village school as a factor in social change.1 In particular it deals with those ...
The acceptability of insecticide treated mosquito nets among community members in Zimbabwe
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2002-07)
Objectives: To assess the acceptability of insecticide treated mosquito nets (ITNs) among community members in Zimbabwe for the implementation of effective malaria intervention using ITNs.
Design: A cross sectional study ...
Notes On The Rural Land Resettlement Programme In Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1987-08-31)
The land redistribution and resettlement programme, that was
launched shortly after independence was aimed at (a) redressing the
inequalities in land allocation and (b) relieving population pressures in the overcrowded ...
Economic Growth and Community Development
(Rhodesian Economic Society (RES). University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe.), 1968-09)
Economic growth in Tribal Trust Areas is the problem facing us and the question is how are we to understand it, grasp its nature?
Any one of us may take a walk through a tribal area and see a tumult of rocks and boulders, ...
Common Property or Open Access Resources? Contributions and Crisis
(Department Of Agricultural Economics and Extension (DAEE) (University of Zimbabwe) (UZ), 1996-12)
This paper sets to show the contribution of common property resources (CPRs) to the welfare of communal area (CA) households and the crisis faced by CPRs as reflected by their shrinkage, productivity decline and management ...
Impact of primary health care on childhood and mortality in rural Ghana: the Gomoa experience
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 1995-05)
The impact of a combination of PHC intervention activities on child survival, growth, morbidity and mortality was assessed in three selected rural communities (Gomoa Fetteh, Gomoa Onyadze/Otsew Jukwa and Gomoa Mprumem) in ...
Evaluation of management strategies for forest reserves in Malawi: the case of Thuma Forest Reserve
(Department Of Agricultural Economics and Extension (DAEE) (University of Zimbabwe) (UZ), 2000-03)
This paper demonstrates how functions and values of forest reserves can be used to determine appropriate management strategies of forest reserves. The paper also demonstrates how community perceptions and preferences can ...
Rural financial markets: historical overview 1924-1991
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 2006)
In the period 1980 to 1991, Zimbabwe’s commercial farming sector was serviced by a highly developed and regulated financial system. In contrast, the less developed rural sector was inadequately serviced by a poor formal ...