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- Date Issued:
- 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- This paper states that the "democracy movement" in Africa has reasserted the need for independent press activity. There has emerged independent radio broadcasting, which supports the abrogation of state monopoly of the broadcast media. It is up to the media educators and communicators to ensure that the main objective of the emerging media ought to be the improvement of the people's lifestyle, both materially and politically.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- Cover, front material, table of contents
- Date Issued:
- 1986-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- Advertisement for the journal Social development issues
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the Journal of international & comparative social welfare
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This discussion hinges on the notion that sub-Saharan Africa's development problems cannot be divorced from the negative ramifications of ethnicity. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa mustfirst deal with ethnicity beforetackling problems of political misrule, poverty and human misery. Development efforts in the region must be preceded by the political will on the part of national governments to bring forth tangible solutions to the question of ethnicity.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This study of social security in Zimbabwe aimed to identify existing formal and non-formal social security systems and assess their viability and their potential for strengthening. Two non-formal social security schemes were selected for in-depth analysis in Phase II: these were the chief's granary (Zunde raMambo) and burial societies. Most people are covered by nonformal arrangements and the family and community still play a critical role in social protection even though poverty has impacted negatively on their ability to do this effectively. Churches are another source of social security. Semi-formal arrangements include burial societies, savings and credit clubs, Their viability is compromised by high levels of poverty in all areas but they could be strengthened through employment creation and the funding of specific community income-generation projects.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This paper examines the participation of farmers in the Participatory Demonstration and Training Extension System and looks into the principal barriers to the adoption of modern agricultural inputs. The paper is based on a review of the literature and an analysis of data collected from 1482 household heads selected from 16 sites in four regional states, namely, the Amhara National Regional State, the Oromia National Regional State, the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regional State and the Tigray National Regional State. The historical review reveals that extension programmes and policies have been formulated without due consideration to the farmers' opinion and traditional knowledge system. The various extension approaches have been biased against the livestock subsector and research and extension activities have been carried out by different organizations without proper co-ordination which, in most cases, has led to redundancy of effort and wastage of resources. Both the historical review and the survey results reveal that extension service coverage in the country has been very low, the research-extension linkage has been very poor and extension agents have been involved in different activities which are not related to their normal duties. The study also makes it clear that a host of factors, some of which are policy related, were responsible for the low rate of adoption of modern agricultural inputs in the country.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa