Browsing by Subject "Africa"
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The 21 st Century Educated African Person and the Loss of Africans’ Educational Identity: Towards an Afro Education Mode
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013)Africa like other parts of the world strongly believes in the axiom of education per excellence, that is, African nations share in the vision of education as a pivot for social change and integrated development. However ... -
An African Learning Network on Sustainability for the development and diffusion of teaching materials and tools on Design for Sustainability in an open-source and copyleft ethos
(CARMA, 2009)It is a shared opinion that sustainable development requires a system discontinuity, meaning that radical changes in the way we produce and consume are needed. Within this framework there is an emerging understanding that ... -
Bridging gender gaps through innovations in agricultural value chains in Africa
(2018)This paper examines innovations for bridging gender gaps in agricultural value chains in Africa. It focuses on innovative platforms for addressing gender gaps, considering women contribute up to 40 percent of labor in ... -
Bridging gender gaps through innovations in agricultural value chains in Africa
(IAAE, 2018)This paper examines innovations for bridging gender gaps in agricultural value chains in Africa. It focuses on innovative platforms for addressing gender gaps, considering women contribute up to 40 percent ... -
How women’s empowerment affects farm production and dietary quality in East Africa
(Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2021-12)Malnutrition remains a key global challenge constraining social and economic development in most developing countries. Although women can play an important role in improving household diet quality, their participation ... -
Impediments to promoting access to global knowledge in sub-Saharan Africa
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)Knowledge-based societies have come to be identified with the advanced economies. Knowledge is now looked on as a new source of competitive advantage. Those economies where knowledge is created and used in large quantities ... -
A VCSEL- based backbone extended-reach optical fibre network: Supporting up to 10 Gbs flexible access networks for Africa
(2018)In this paper, using vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and Raman amplification, a low power consuming, energy-efficient and cheap technique to transmit high speed data signals over optical fibre is ...
