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DEVELOPMENTAL STATE CAPACITY FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA’S INFORMAL TRADING: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS 南非非正规贸易中青年赋权的国家发展能力：挑战与前景

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.55190/ewvg6937

J. Ringson

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INTEGRITY COMMITTEES AS ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGIES IN MALAWI’S PUBLIC SERVICE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 廉政委员会作为马拉维公共服务部门的反腐败战略：机遇与挑战

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.55190/txga7256

MK Hussein

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Modern States’ Administration: Cases of Nigeria and Sudan 现代国家行政管理：尼日利亚和苏丹的案例

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.55190/mvgs6083

CC Khunga

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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN EXPLORATORY DISCOURSE OF CHALLENGES 尼日利亚的公共机构、民主巩固和可持续发展：对各种挑战的探讨

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.55190/auha9046

JE Imhanlahimi, Sar Ajiteru

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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN ZIMBABWE’S PUBLIC SECTOR 津巴布韦公共部门的战略管理实践

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55190/nyyy2732

Nyashadzashe Chiwawa, H. Wissink, W. Fox

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TIPTOEING TOWARDS A REPRESENTATIVE BUREAUCRACY: ENGENDERING GENDER EQUALITY IN MALAWI PUBLIC SERVICE 蹑手蹑脚走向代议制官僚:在马拉维公共服务中实现性别平等

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55190/hddk8845

Richard I. C. Tambulasi, M. Chasukwa

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DEMOCRACY AND ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN MALAWI: THE POST-2019 ELECTIONS 马拉维的民主和选举暴力:2019年后的选举

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55190/fubt8354

M. Hussein, G. Sambo

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PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLITICS-ADMINISTRATION DICHOTOMY IN MALAWIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT 马拉维地方政府政治-行政二分法的实践和看法

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55190/zahm4483

A. Chiweza, Y. Msiska

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DETERMINANTS OF CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE DISSEMINATION STRATEGIES IN CHIREDZI, ZIMBABWE 津巴布韦奇雷齐气候智慧型农业传播战略的决定因素

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55190/fduv4368

Bernard Chazovachii

{"title":"DETERMINANTS OF CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE DISSEMINATION STRATEGIES IN CHIREDZI, ZIMBABWE","authors":"Bernard Chazovachii","doi":"10.55190/fduv4368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55190/fduv4368","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to identify determinants of Climate-Smart Agriculture dissemination among different categories of smallholder farmers. It notes that climatic change is a global phenomenon that requires stakeholders to exercise their minds, as a collective, to find long-lasting solutions. Although the potential of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is acknowledged in academia and among development agencies, it remains unclear whether smallholder farmers would be willing to adopt the initiative. Whereas CSA has been hailed as a way of cushioning smallholder famers from the vagaries of climate change, determinants of its dissemination are unclear to smallholder farmers. This article draws data from the smallholder farmer in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe; and it finds that categories in technology adoption are characterised by different levels of risks that farmers are keen to take, human capital, resource endowment and entitlements, reliability, and accessibility of the strategy and its geographical coverage in terms of space and time. Therefore, the article concludes that the uptake of the strategy is influenced by both extension officers’ and smallholder farmers’ capacity and capability to adopt and diffuse. The article recommends that a people-centered approach to strategy dissemination is pivotal for sustainable CSA uptake among smallholder farmers. Keywords: Climate-Smart Agriculture, Diffusion of Innovation Theory, Extension officer, Smallholder farming","PeriodicalId":179506,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116781326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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STATES SOFT POWER UTILISATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: PROS AND CONS FROM THE NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE 21世纪国家软实力的运用:从尼日利亚的角度看利弊

Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55190/whws9388

Frederick Braimah, Z. Edo

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