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A Gender Analysis of Participation in Planning for Village Regrouping on Lake Kariba Shoreline (Zambia)
(2014-10-03)Until recently, Lake Kariba fishery like other fisheries in Zambia had been centrally managed by the government through the Department of Fisheries (DoF). Due to some problems of centralized fishery management, such as 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 ... -
Agronomic and economic impact of legume inoculant use in Zambia, 1985-1992.
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications. (Department of Soil Sciences), 1998)The global economic impact of BNF technology is enormous, estimated at $85 billion annually. But donor and government policy makers do not have access to meaningful and accurate data with which to make effective decisions ... -
An Analysis of Dewey’s Perception of Science and Technology in Society: Relevance and Implications for an African Science and Technology Policy for Social and Economic Development
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 1993-11)This paper represents an attempt to describe Dewey’s representative thoughts on the role of science and technology education in society. An attempt is made to demonstrate the relevance of his thinking to a justification ... -
An Analysis of Technical and Vocational Education Policy Growth and Development in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Africa
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2009-11)Socio-economic development is negatively affected if Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) policy growth and development is not purposefully aligned injandem with the national economic thrust. This paper starts by ... -
An Economic Evaluation Of Soil Conservation Measures In Zvimba And Chirau Communal Lands
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension (AEE); University of Zimbabwe, 1991-08)Soil erosion is an increasingly important problem in Zimbabwe. Whitlow (1988) states that 4.7% of the country or 1.8 mio hectares of land are actually eroded, the bulk (1.5 mio hectares) located in the Communal Lands. ... -
Analysis of export instability and export promotion policies in Zimbabwe, 1980-1987.
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Ancient mining and Zimbabwe
(1974)Ancient gold mining and Zimbabwe have been commonly associated for over a hundred years, either in terms of an exotic colony for gold export or as an African state based on the East Coast trade. The stratigraphy and ... -
Appropriate Technology for Development in the Third World
(2014-10-08)From earliest times man has attempted, with the resources available to him, to satisfy his basic needs of food, shelter security and self satisfaction. From Stone Age and Iron Age, through the development of tools and ... -
Community Development in Pre-Independence Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1985)AIMS OF THE STUDY. Community Development Policy was officially adopted in Rhodesia in May 1962. From this date, until after its climax in f970, it was one of the major rural planning policy instruments in the African Tribal ... -
Controversies, Dilemmas And Openings In The Study Of African Development
(Institute of Development Studies (Zimbabwe) (ZIDS), 1989-01)Like every other scientific theory, socialist development has its own rationale which determines its priorities independent of the subjective wish of its planners. Hence the dialectical fact that the whole process of ... -
Dispersal of Economic Activity and Industrial Development.
(Rhodesian Economic Society (RES). University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe.), 1969-09)Ever since Lord Keynes propounded his “General Theory”, it has increasingly come to be held that man is not merely a cork on the economic ocean, being flung this way and that by blind economic forces, but that he can ... -
Eastern Highlands Tea Estates: A Case Study Of The Historical Development of A Tea Estate
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1984-03)The aim of this study is to give an economic and historical resume of the development and expansion of the Eastern Highlands Tea Estates. It is hoped that the study will throw some light upon the intricate organizational ... -
Economic Analysis of Soyabean Production and Management Technologies: a Case Study of Hurungwe Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications. (Department of Soil Sciences), 1998)This study focused on analysis of research, demonstration and survey data on alternative soyabean production and management technologies in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe. Use of improved soyabean production and management ... -
Economic Co-operation in Southern Africa
(Rhodesian Economic Society (RES). University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe.), 1969-09)The purpose of this paper is no more than to put forward some basic concepts which, to my mind, would have to underlie the economic policies of the various states on the sub-continent of Southern Africa if we all wish to ... -
Economic Development for an Exploding Population
(Rhodesian Economic Society. University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe.), 1979-06)I could use this occasion to come up with lots of facts and figures on population explosion and economic development. Alternatively, I could expand on the nature and use of mathematical computer models of population or ... -
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, ... -
Economic Growth of Japan with Special Reference to Industrial Development
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ) (University of Zimbabwe) (UZ), 1999-09)Japan’s economic success has been a characteristic of the second half of the twentieth century. Its industrial revolution took 120 years whereas Britain took nearly twice that period to become a major industrial nation. ... -
Economic Growth through Industrialisation
(Rhodesian Economic Society (RES). University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe.), 1969-09)Arising from the experience of the pioneers of industrialisation, who have become the twentieth century’s highly industrialised states, high rates of longterm economic growth have come to be, not only associated with, but ... -
Economic liberalisation versus the liberation process in Southern Africa: the IMF agreement with particular reference to Zambia and Tanzania
(Department of Economics, Law, Political and Administrative Studies, University of Zimbabwe, 1987-04)