The chapter discusses challenges of artisanal mining (AM), a nature-based livelihood strategy, in promoting sustainable agricultural practices. It highlights how AM competes for biodiversity and ecosystem services and ...
This article examines social-capital’s contribution towards improving
smallholder irrigation-farming, which is one of the primary means of
subsistence in rural areas due to climate change under the Zimbabwe National
Development ...
Denga, R.V.; Ncube, M.; Marambanyika, T.; Simwanda, M.; Vinya, R.(2022-12)
Riverbank cultivation is an activity that has existed for decades in developing countries.
Despite the threats it poses to riverine ecosystems against associated human livelihood
benefits, the effectiveness of conservation ...
Traditionally, southern Matabeleland is a cattle-producing region of Zimbabwe,
punctuated by crop farming as key livelihood strategies. With the increasingly
rampaging climate change effects on rain-fed agriculture, ...
Countries steadfastly pursue academia as a necessary step towards socio-economic development, which
places a mandate on institutions of higher learning to stir host-country economies through university
deliverables. In ...
Moyo, F.; Ndlovu, T.; Francis, B.; Ncube, M.(African Journal of Public Affairs, 2018-06)
This article aims to show that competing demands on environmental resources have,
more often than not, exacerbated vulnerability of poor rural agricultural communities. Artisanal and small-scale mining and irrigation-based ...
Ncube, Mthuthukisi; Ncube, Francis Godfrey; Mateke, Excellence Charles(International Journal of Social Science And Human Research, 2022-01-01)
Student-involvement in higher-education is necessary for quality-assurance outcomes, yet such involvement also
threatens attainment of quality assured, presenting the paradox of higher-education (HE) systems. With the ...
Ncube, Mthuthukisi; Moyo, Funa; Mamhute, Sincere Tinovonga(International Journal of Social Science And Human Research, 2021-12-12)
The article examines the negative externalities of social capital in the sustainability of smallholder irrigation
farming. Smallholder irrigation farming has become one of the main sources of rural livelihood in Zimbabwe ...